Miyako Chiyo

Miyako Chiyo ( Japanese 都 千代 , born May 2, 1901 in Wakayama ; † July 22, 2018 in Yokohama ) was a Japanese supercentenarian and as of April 21, 2018 the oldest living person.

Life

Miyako lived in Ku Nishi-ku in the Japanese city of Yokohama. In an interview she gave to a Japanese anti-aging magazine in October 2015 at the age of 114, she said her secret to longevity is to eat eel, drink wine and never smoke. And it was her hobby to travel abroad with her husband.

Miyako's date of birth was confirmed on August 6, 2015 by the Gerontology Research Group . It went straight to number 83 on the list of oldest people and number eight on the list of oldest living people. With the death of Kiyoko Ishiguro on December 5, 2015, she became the oldest living person in Kanagawa Prefecture and the oldest living person born in the 20th century. She was one of the twenty oldest people from December 8, 2016, after the death of Emma Morano on April 15, 2017, she was among the three oldest people alive. As of Violet Brown's death on September 15, 2017, she was the second oldest living person after Tajima Nabi . As of December 15, 2017, Ana Vela Rubios ' death date , she was the last living person born in 1901. When she exceeded Gertrude Weaver's age on February 2, 2018 , she entered the top 10 oldest people. As of May 2018, she was seventh. In addition, she was the second oldest Japanese and Asian woman of all time, behind Tajima. Miyako was the oldest living person in the world after Tajima's death on April 21, 2018.

See also

• List of the oldest people
• List of the oldest women

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Masakazu Senda: Oldest person title officially achieved by 117-year-old Chiyo Miyako before her death. In: guinnessworldrecords.com . July 26, 2018, accessed July 27, 2018 . 
2. ↑ 1 10 00 0 歳 以上 高 齢 者 の お 祝 い に つ い て ~ 平 成 222777 年度 111000000 歳 以上 高 齢 者 の 状況 に つ い て ~. (PDF, 130 kB) (No longer available online.) City of Yokohama, September 27, 2011, p. 2 , archived from the original on August 3, 2016 ; Retrieved July 27, 2018 (Japanese, "Celebrations of the Elderly Over the Age of 100: On the Situation of the Elderly. 4. Number of Elderly Over 100"). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ 百寿 者 ー こ 訊 ー ナ! 長寿 の ヒ ケ ッ. (PDF, 559 kB) In: Anti-Aging Medical Magazine 11/4. October 2015, accessed on July 27, 2018 (Japanese, “Questions about longevity”; “Happy with delicious food and wine”).ア ン チ ・ エ イ ジ ン グ 医学 ア グ レ ッ ッ シ ブ に 加 齢 に 対 抗 す る 新 た な 予 防 医学. In: 日本 抗 加 齢 医学 会 雑 誌, ISBN 978-4-7792-1588-9 , pp. 644–647 (Japanese). 
   
4. ↑ Photo Gallery for Supercentenarians born in the year 1901, as of May 7, 2018. Gerontology Research Group , accessed on July 27, 2018 . 
5. ↑ 県 内 最高 齢 114 歳 、 石 黒 さ ん 死去 、 平 塚. In: kanaloco.jp (Kanagawa Shimbun). December 7, 2015, accessed July 27, 2018 (Japanese, "The 114-year-old is the oldest in the prefecture. Mr. Ishiguro died in Hiratsuka"). 

Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . So Miyako is the family name, Chiyo the first name.