A 112-year-old Japanese national has been recognized as the world's oldest living man according to the Guinness World Records.
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Masazo Nonaka
Guinness World Records, on Tuesday, recognised Masazo Nonaka, a
112-year-old Japanese national, as the world’s oldest living man.
Nonaka, who lives in a family-run hot spring inn on the northern
island of Hokkaido, received a certificate from Erika Ogawa, vice
president for Japan at the record-keeping organization.
The former inn owner in the town of Ashoro now likes to spend time
with his family and also reads newspapers, watches TV and indulges in
sweets, according to Guinness.
Nonaka was born on July 25, 1905, just months before Albert
Einstein published his special theory of relativity. In 1931, Nonaka
married Hatsuno and went on to have five children with her.
Nonaka has seven brothers and one sister, who live nearby in the
town. He was certified as the world’s oldest man after Francisco Nunez
Olivera in Spain died in January at the age of 113.
“Mr Nonaka’s achievement is remarkable – he can teach us all an
important lesson about the value of life and how to stretch the limits
of human longevity,” said Craig Clenday, Guinness World Records’ editor-in-chief.
The world’s oldest living person is Nabi Tajima, a 117-year-old
resident of the southern Japanese prefecture of Kagoshima, according to
the US-based Gerontology Research Group.
She was born on August 4, 1900.
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