Supercentenarian Jiroemon Kimura dies at 116 years

World's oldest recorded person, Jiroemon Kimura. Photo by: Tokyo times website

Supercentenarian Japan’s Jiroemon Kimura, recognised as the world's oldest living person dies of natural causes on Wednesday in a hospital in Kyotango, Kyoto at his age of 116 years. Jiroemon Kimura was born in 1897, and is already the oldest recorded human to have ever lived before. Guinness World Record winning oldest man in recorded history died today at 2:08 a.m in a hospital in his hometown of Kyotango at western Japan according to a faxed statement by the japanese local government to the media. According to this statement Jiroemon Kimura was admitted for pneumonia on 11th May of this year and over the past few days his body's response to blood-sugar level and urine production had declined.  Jiroemon Kimura who was born on 19th April 1897 has 25 great grandchildren and 13 great great grandchildren. Jiroemon Kimura became the oldest living man in Japan upon the death of Tomoji Tanabe on 19th June 2009. Japenese former postman Mr. Jiroemon Kimura was named the world's oldest person by Guinness World Records after the death of American woman Dina Manfredini on 17th December 2012. Jiroemon Kimura is believed to be the last known man to have lived across three centuries. Jiroemon Kimura's motto in life was "to eat light and live long". After Jiroemon Kimura's death, world's oldest person's title now goes to world's oldest living woman Misao Okawa of Japan, who was born on March 5, 1898.