Tajima Nabi

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Tajima Nabi ( Japanese 田島 ナ ビ , born August 4, 1900 in Wan (now Kikai ), Kagoshima ; † April 21, 2018 ) is the owner of the Japanese age record. From September 15, 2017, she was considered the oldest living person in the world for 218 days , the last person born in the 19th century and, since February 10, 2018, the oldest person to have lived in the 21st century. However, the title has not been officially awarded by the Guinness Book of Records .

Life

Tajima was born on August 4, 1900 in the village of Wan in the western part of the island of Kikaijima ( Amami Islands ). Her mother tongue was Kikai , a dialect of the Amami language from the Ryūkyū language family . Tajima Nabi had over 140 offspring, descended from her seven sons and two daughters. These include 28 grandchildren, 56 great-grandchildren, 35 great-great-grandchildren and some great-great-great-grandchildren (as of September 2015). She lived in Kikai on the island of her birth.

Since August 13, 2014 Tajima Nabi has been one of the 100 oldest people of all time . As of June 17, 2015, she was one of the five oldest living people; she became the oldest living Asian woman on September 27, 2015. Since the Japanese Ikai Tane passed the age of January 26, 2017, Tajima has been one of the ten oldest people of all time. In addition, she became the second oldest person from Asia after Ōkawa Misao ; Since August 31, 2017, Tajima Nabi is considered the oldest Asian person in history. After the death of Violet Brown on September 15, 2017, Tajima Nabi became the oldest living person in the world. Currently (April 2018) she is the third oldest person who has ever lived, after Jeanne Calment and Sarah Knauss .

On April 21, 2018, Tajima Nabi died in a hospital on Kikai Island at the age of 117 . Miyako Chiyo , who was 116 years old at the time, was succeeded as the oldest living person .

See also

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Guinness World Records 2015 . Guinness World Records, 2014, ISBN 978-1-908843-70-8 , pp. 77 (English, limited preview on Google Books ).
  2. ↑ 世界 最高 齢 、 １１７ 歳 女性 死去 ＝ 最後 の １８００ 年代 生 ま れ - 伊. In: jiji.com . April 16, 2017, archived from the original on April 16, 2017 ; Retrieved April 22, 2018 (Japanese).
  3. ↑ Note: GRG lists the case as doubtful since April 22, 2018, s. http://www.grg.org/Adams/C.HTM (listed here in italics)
  4. ↑ 「ナ ビ ば あ ち ゃ ん ち ば り よ ー」 ／ 喜 界 町 の 田島 さ ん に 県 祝 い 状. In: 南海 日 日 新聞 (Nankai Sun). September 16, 2015, accessed November 25, 2015 (Japanese, "Oma Nabi" - Kikai holds provincial celebration for Ms. Tajima).
  5. ↑ 広 報 き か い. (pdf; 5.8 MB) Kikai Town Hall, September 2011, archived from the original on December 13, 2011 ; Retrieved April 22, 2018 (Japanese).
  6. ↑ Ny gammal äldst på världstronen. In: Göteborgs-Posten . April 17, 2017. Retrieved April 22, 2018 (Swedish).
  7. ↑ 国内 最高 齢 の １１５ 歳 女性 が 死去. In: NHK . September 28, 2015, archived from the original on September 28, 2015 ; Retrieved September 30, 2015 (Japanese). Japan's oldest woman dies at 115; Kagoshima resident now record holder. In: The Japan Times . September 28, 2015, accessed April 22, 2018 .
  8. ↑ dpa : The oldest person in the world died at the age of 117. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . April 22, 2018. Retrieved April 22, 2018 .
Japanese name: As is common in Japan, the family name comes before the first name in this article . Thus Tajima is the family name, Nabi the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Tajima, Nabi
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 田島 ナ ビ (Japanese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Japanese, oldest living person (2017-2018)
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1900
PLACE OF BIRTH Wan, Kikai , Kagoshima , Japan
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 2018