World’s oldest person, Tomiko Itooka, dies aged 116

A Japanese woman, Tomiko Itooka, globally recognised as world’s oldest person, has died, aged 116. Japanese public television station NHK reported on Saturday that Tomiko Itooka died at a retirement home on December 29 in Ashiya in the southern Hyogo prefecture. The southern city’s mayor, Ryosuke Takashima, confirmed in a statement that Itooka died on