Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka, born before the start of World War I, who was believed to be the oldest person in the world, passed away at a nursing home in Japan’s Ashiya at the age of 116, The New ...

Tomiko Itooka, who lived in a nursing home in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, in central Japan, died from natural causes on Dec. 29 ...

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died.

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Harry Chandler, a Navy medic who helped pull injured sailors from the oily waters of Pearl Harbor after the 1941 Japanese ...

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