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12 Facts About Kane Tanaka

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Kane Tanaka is the oldest verified Japanese person and the second-oldest verified person ever, after Jeanne Calment.

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Kane Tanaka's husband was later drafted into the military, where he served from 1937 to 1939; one of her sons was captured towards the end of World War II as a military POW and was held captive in Siberia before being released and returning home in 1947.

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Kane Tanaka's husband died in 1993 at the age of 90 after 71 years of marriage.

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Kane Tanaka lived in a nursing home in Higashi-ku, Fukuoka from September 2018, and was reportedly still in good health on her 118th birthday.

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Kane Tanaka was supposed to hold the Olympic torch at the 2020 Summer Olympics, but she withdrew from it due to concerns regarding an increase in COVID-19 cases in Japan.

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Kane Tanaka occasionally played the board game Othello, and took short walks in the nursing home's hallways.

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Kane Tanaka died in a hospital in Fukuoka on 19 April 2022, nine days after being verified as the second-oldest person to have lived.

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Kane Tanaka had several major illnesses and was infected with paratyphoid fever with her adopted daughter at the age of 35.

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Kane Tanaka underwent pancreatic cancer surgery at the age of 45.

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In 2006, Kane Tanaka was diagnosed with colorectal cancer and underwent surgery when she was 103 years old.

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On 9 March 2019, Kane Tanaka was officially presented with the "World's Oldest Living Person" and "World's Oldest Living Woman" titles by Guinness World Records, verifying her longevity claim.

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Kane Tanaka had said that she wanted to live to the age of 120, crediting her faith in God, family, sleep, hope, eating good food and practicing mathematics for her longevity.