- The oldest person in Japan and Asia took up mountaineering even after being over 70 years old
Japanese Tomiko Itooka became the world’s oldest woman and is a candidate for the oldest person in the world according to the Guinness World Records research committee after the Death of Maria Branyas.
Itooka is 116 years old and a former mountaineer. Her records indicate that she was born on May 23, 1908 and she is currently based in the city of Ashiya in western Japan.
Maria Branyas died on August 19 at the age of 117 years and 168 days. The Spanish woman had obtained the record for the oldest person in the world in 2023.
Who is Tomiko Itooka?
It is known that the world’s oldest woman was married and replaced her husband in his position at a textile factory in South Korea during World War II.
She is a mother of three children and after her husband died in 1979, Itooka moved to the town of Nara in Japan where she lived alone and devoted herself to mountaineering.
According to data from the Gerontology Research Group of the United States, the Japanese woman climbed Mount Ontake twice at the age of over 70. She was also recorded climbing the steps of Ashiya Shrine without a cane.
Itooka currently holds the titles of the oldest person in both Japan and the Asian continent. He also holds the longevity record for Hyogo Prefecture, where he currently resides.
The Japanese also has the title of supercentenarian, which is awarded to people who are over 110 years of age.
Itooka was born in the year the first radio message was sent from the Eiffel Tower and when the Wright brothers made their first public flights in Europe and America.
Some of the historical events that the Japanese woman was able to witness were the two world wars, the separation of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the arrival and popularization of the Internet, and the Covid-19 pandemic.
The world longevity record was achieved by Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment, who died in 1997 at the age of 122 years and 164 days.
Maria Branyas’ farewell
Branyas’ family reported the woman’s death through her X account on August 19 and her relatives assured that she died “in her sleep, peacefully and without pain.”
Before her death, the woman posted a message in which she warned that she felt like these were her last hours of life.
“I feel weak. The time is approaching. Don’t cry, I don’t like tears. And above all, don’t suffer for me. Wherever I go, I will be happy,” Branyas said on his X account.
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2024-08-23 11:37:09
