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Now, world’s oldest people are Japanese

June 21, 2014 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) –The world’s oldest man, a retired chemist and parapsychologist, has died in New York City. Alexander Imich was 111. His niece says Imich died on June 8 at his home in Manhattan, after his health deteriorated in the past two weeks. Imich was born in 1903 in a town […]

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, 2014, Alexander Imich, Guinness World Records, Koto Okubo, Misao Okawa, New York City, Poland, Russia, Tane Ikai, United States, Vol 33 No 26 | June 21 - June 27, Yukio Okawa, japan

World’s oldest woman dies at 115 in Japan

January 19, 2013 By Northwest Asian Weekly

By Staff The Associated press TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese official says a woman in his town near Tokyo, who became world’s oldest living female just last month, has died at 115.

Filed Under: World News Tagged With: 2013, Born Dec, Jiroemon Kimura, Kawasaki City, Koto Okubo, Mitsuhiro Kozuka, Tokyo, United States, Vol 32 No 4 | January 19 - January 25, japan

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