Thursday 19 April 2012

Jiroemon Kimura, The World's Oldest Man Turns 115

Jiroemon Kimura, the world's oldest man and 3rd oldest person, turned 115 today, making him the 3rd undisputed man of all time to reach that age. He is also the 27th undisputed person to reach the age of 115th.
Here is confirmation of him reaching 115 and Here is a video. He has been the oldest living man since 14th April 2011, when Walter Breuning died. He has also been the 3rd oldest person and oldest living Japanese person since the death of Chiyono Hasegawa on 12th December, 2011. He is the 1st man to reach the age of 115 in 5 years and has been oldest Japanese man ever for over 6 months.  The news has been covered in UK, Australia and America too.

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