Motoi Fukunishi

Motoi Fukunishi
Fukunishi in March 2006 at age 96.
Birth:	25 March 1910 Shimotsuma, Ibaraki, Japan
Death:	22 August 2020 Shimotsuma, Ibaraki, Japan
Age:	110 years, 150 days
Country:	JPN
Unvalidated

Motoi Fukunishi (Japanese: 福西基; 25 March 1910 – 22 August 2020) was a Japanese supercentenarian whose age is currently unvalidated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). He was the oldest living man in Japan at the time of his death.

Biography

Motoi Fukunishi was born in Shimotsuma City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, on 25 March 1910. Up until 2015, he was the director of Shimotsumashotomo Kindergarten. He was hospitalized in the late July 2020. On 11 August 2020, he became the oldest living man in Japan.

Fukunishi died at a hospital in Shimotsuma City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, on 22 August 2020, at the age of 110 years, 151 days.

References

• 国内男性最高齢110歳、福西基さん死去　下妻、105歳まで幼稚園長 Ibaraki Shimbun, 26 August 2020

Gallery

Fukunishi at the age of 99.

Fukunishi at the age of 103.

Fukunishi on his 108th birthday.

Japan's Oldest Living Man Titleholders (V • E)

Shozaburo Oda • Tokusaburo Hatsukade • Unknown • Ikumatsu Matsuura • Masakichi Kai • Goro Usuyama • Shizuo Jinjiang • Kokuzo Iwate • Eisaku Takada • Hisaharu Arai • Chojiro Goto • Yozotaro Yoshikawa • Masutaro Sato • Takataro Hiragushi • Mataichi Ono • Shotaro Tanaka • Rinzo Shimizu • Koji Onishi • Inasaku Abe • Mokotaru Osada • Eiju Tsuru • Kiichi Fujiwara • Nisaburo Matsuyama • Shimetaro Hara • Gihei Oka • Gengan Tonaki • Denzo Ishizaki • Sadayoshi Tanabe • Yukichi Chuganji • Kameni Nakamura • Minsho Ozawa • Totaro Murakami • Kohachi Shigetaka • Nijiro Tokuda • Tomoji Tanabe • Jiroemon Kimura • Jokichi Ikarashi • Sakari Momoi • Yasutaro Koide • Masamitsu Yoshida • Masazo Nonaka • Chitetsu Watanabe • Issaku Tomoe • Shojiro Shirai • Motoi Fukunishi • Mikizo Ueda • Shigeru Nakamura • Gisaburo Sonobe • Tomisaburo Wakui