Native name 田島 ナビ Nationality Japanese | Children 9 Name Nabi Tajima | |
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Born 4 August 1900
(age 115 years, 146 days) Wan Village (currently Kikai Town), Kagoshima, Japan Residence Kikai, Kagoshima, Japan Known for Oldest living person in Japan | ||
Nabi tajima
Nabi Tajima (田島 ナビ, Tajima Nabi, born 4 August 1900) is a Japanese supercentenarian. At the age of 117 years, 52 days, she is the world's oldest verified living person and the last surviving person born in the 19th century. She is the oldest verified Japanese and Asian person ever.
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Biography
Tajima was born in Araki, an area which was then Wan Village, in the westernmost part of Kikaijima Island. Since February 2002, she has resided in a nursing home named "Kikaien" (喜界園) in Kikai, Kagoshima.
Her husband, Tominishi Tajima, died in 1991 at the age of 95. She has nine children (seven sons and two daughters). As of September 2011, Tajima had 28 grandchildren, 56 great-grandchildren and 35 great-great-grandchildren. As of September 2015, she had over 140 descendants, including great-great-great-grandchildren. As of September 2017, she had around 160 descendants.
According to reports, Tajima mostly eats ramen noodles and rice mackerel sushi.
Tajima became the oldest living person in Japan on 27 September 2015, upon the death of a 115-year-old anonymous woman who was living in Tokyo. On 15 September 2017, upon the death of the 117-year-old Jamaican Violet Brown, Tajima became the oldest living person in the world—and the last surviving person born in the 19th century.