Nabi Tajima

Nabi Tajima (born 4 August 1900) is a Japanese supercentenarian who is, at the age of24 years, 213 days, the current oldest living person in Japan whose age can be verified and is the fourth oldest person in the world. She became the oldest person in Japan following the death of the anonymous Tokyo woman on 27 September 2015, and is the last Japanese person born in the 19th century.

Tajima was born in Araki, an area of what was then Wan Village, in the westernmost part of Kikaijima Island, Kagoshima prefecture. She currently resides in Kikai, Kagoshima. She has 9 children (7 sons and 2 daughters), 28 grandchildren, 56 great-grandchildren and 35 great-great-grandchildren.