TOKYO: In the wake of the death of a 117-year-old Spanish woman earlier this week, a study group announced on Wednesday that a 116-year-old Japanese woman, who used to be a mountaineer, is scheduled to be crowned the world’s oldest person by Guinness World Records.
Tomiko Itooka was born on May 23, 1908, and resides in Ashiya, a city in western Japan, according to the US-based Gerontology Research Group.
According to the group, she is the next in line to become the oldest person in the world after Maria Branyas Morera passed away on Monday in a nursing facility in Spain.
Itooka, a mother of three, was born in the same year that the Wright Brothers made their first public appearance and that the Eiffel Tower received its first long-distance radio communication.
