The Metro reported, the world’s second-oldest woman and Japan’s oldest living person has died at the age of 116 at a nursing home in Kashiwara. Fusa Tatsumi died from old age on Tuesday, December 12, 2023, at the care facility after eating bean-paste jelly, which is her favorite meal.
”Tatsumi died on Tuesday at the age of 116 at a healthcare facility in Osaka,” an official said in Osaka’s Kashiwara city.
Tatsumi, who lived through two world wars and multiple pandemics, was recognized as Japan’s oldest individual after Kane Tanaka died last year at 119. Guinness World Records officially approved Tanaka’s status as the world’s oldest person in April 2022.
Fusa Tatsumi was the 27th individual in history to reach the age of 116 and was only the seventh Japanese individual to do so.
Born in 1907, Tatsumi raised three children with her husband, a farmer, in Osaka, local broadcaster MBS reported.
Notably, she had recently spent most of her days in bed at the nursing home and frequently greeted the staff working there. As per reports, Fusa Tatsumi suffered no prior health problems and had never been fatally ill or injured excepting when she broke her thigh bone in a fall in her 70s.
She also enjoyed gardening and practiced the art of Japanese tea ceremony and flower arrangement after she graduated from elementary school.
Fusa Tatsumi’s love for gardening sustained until she arrived at nursing home at the age of 106.
”’I think she did great to get to this age,” Tatsumi’s eldest son, Kanji, 76, told local broadcast after the supercentenarian’s demise.
Osaka governor Hirofumi Yoshimura offered condolences on the social media site X, recalling a function he attended to celebrate Tatsumi’s longevity in September.
“I still remember how healthy Ms. Fusa Tatsumi was,” Yoshimura said. “I sincerely pray for her soul.”
Japan has one of the world’s maximum life expectancies and has been home to several people recognized as among the oldest people to have ever survived.
