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}}'''Koto Okubo''' [Japanese: '''大久保 琴'''] (24 December 1897 – 12 January 2013) was a Japanese supercenterian who, when she died, was 115 years and 19 days old and was the oldest verified woman in the world and the second oldest person in the world behind the man [[Jiroemon Kimura]] who was eight months and five days older then her. She spent her last days in her nursing home in Kawasaki with the company of her son. She was the world's last surviving woman born in 1897. <ref>[http://www.grg.org/Adams/A.HTM Verified Supercentenarians (Listed Chronologically By Birth Date)] Gerontology Research Group</ref>
 
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-->'''Koto Okubo''' [Japanese: '''大久保 琴'''] (24 December 1897 – 12 January 2013) was a Japanese [[supercentenarian]] who, at the time of her death, was the oldest validated woman in the world and the second-oldest person in the world behind the man [[Jiroemon Kimura]], who was eight months and five days older than her.
   
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==Biography==
 
Koto Okubo was born in Japan on 24 December 1897. She spent her last days in her nursing home in Kawasaki with the company of her son. She was the world's last surviving woman born in 1897. <ref>[http://www.grg.org/Adams/A.HTM Verified Supercentenarians (Listed Chronologically By Birth Date)] Gerontology Research Group</ref>
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Okubo died in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan on 12 January 2013, at the age of 115 years, 19 days.
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Revision as of 16:11, 20 July 2020

Koto Okubo
Koto Okubo
Birth: 24 December 1897
Tokyo, Japan
Death: 12 January 2013
Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan
Age: 115 years, 19 days
Country: JapanJPN
Validated

Koto Okubo [Japanese: 大久保 琴] (24 December 1897 – 12 January 2013) was a Japanese supercentenarian who, at the time of her death, was the oldest validated woman in the world and the second-oldest person in the world behind the man Jiroemon Kimura, who was eight months and five days older than her.

Biography

Koto Okubo was born in Japan on 24 December 1897. She spent her last days in her nursing home in Kawasaki with the company of her son. She was the world's last surviving woman born in 1897. [1]

Okubo died in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan on 12 January 2013, at the age of 115 years, 19 days.

References


World's Oldest Living Woman Titleholders (VE)

Betsy BakerJennie HowellMarie CarstensonNancy RyanChristina Karnebeek-Backs • Marie Olsen • Mary Kelly • Elizabeth Kensley • Auguste Pahl • Hannah Smith • Yoshigiku Ito • Johanna Booysen • Marie Bernatkova • Ada Roe • Josefa Salas Mateo • Alice Stevenson • Elizabeth Watkins • Mito Umeta • Niwa Kawamoto • Sophia DeMuth • Marie-Virginie Duhem • Fannie Thomas • Augustine Tessier • Nellie Spencer • Emma Wilson • Augusta Holtz • Mary McKinney • Anna Eliza Williams • Florence Knapp • Jeanne Calment • Marie-Louise Meilleur • Sarah Knauss • Eva Morris • Marie Bremont • Maud Farris-Luse • Grace Clawson • Adelina Domingues • Mae Harrington • Mitoyo Kawate • Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan • Maria Capovilla • Elizabeth Bolden • Julie Winnefred Bertrand • Emma Tillman • Yone Minagawa • Edna Parker • Maria de Jesus • Gertrude Baines • Kama Chinen • Eugenie Blanchard • Maria Gomes Valentim • Besse Cooper • Dina Manfredini • Koto Okubo • Misao Okawa • Gertrude Weaver • Jeralean Talley • Susannah Mushatt Jones • Emma Morano • Violet Brown • Nabi Tajima • Chiyo MiyakoKane TanakaLucile RandonMaria Branyas Morera


Japan's Oldest Living Woman Titleholders (VE)

Sue Watanabe • Unknown • Tome Yoshida • Haru Komai • Ishi HayashiYoshigiku Ito • Tome Horigome • Haruno Shimada • Mito Umeta • Niwa Kawamoto • Isa Nakayama • Man Ichikawa • Koume Kabira • Matsu Yoshikuni • Koharu Kodaira • Oto Michii • Toka Miyata • Momu Okuma • Ine Tsugawa • Seki Takehara • Waka Shirahama • Tane Ikai • Sue Utagawa • Suekiku Miyanaga • Asa Takii • Tase Matsunaga • Yasu Akino • Kayo Fujii • Mie Ishiguro • Matsuno Oikawa • Mitoyo Kawate • Ura Koyama • Yone Minagawa • Shitsu Nakano • Tsuneyo Toyonaga • Kaku Yamanaka • Kama Chinen • Chiyono Hasegawa • Koto Okubo • Misao Okawa • Anonymous (Tokyo) • Nabi TajimaChiyo MiyakoKane TanakaFusa TatsumiTomiko Itooka