List of Japanese supercentenarians

File:Chiyono Hasegawa September 2010.jpg

Chiyono Hasegawa (1896–2011), from Saga and here pictured in September 2010, was one of hundreds of Japanese supercentenarians. She died at the age of 115 years and 12 days.

Japanese supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from Japan who have attained or surpassed the age of 110 years. As of January 2015, the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 263 Japanese supercentenarians, most of whom are women. As of 11 July 2024, it lists the oldest living Japanese person as Fusa Tatsumi (born in Ōsaka on 25 April 1907), aged . The oldest verified Japanese and Asian person ever is Kane Tanaka (1903–2022), who lived to the age of 119 years and 107 days, making her the second oldest validated person ever as well. Japan was also home to the world's oldest man ever, Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013), who lived to the age of 116 years and 54 days.

100 oldest known Japanese

      Deceased       Living

Rank	Name	Sex	Birth date	Death date	Age	Birthplace	Place of death or residence
01	Kane Tanaka	F	2 January 1903	19 April 2022		Fukuoka	Fukuoka
02	Nabi Tajima	F	4 August 1900	21 April 2018		Kagoshima	Kagoshima
03	Chiyo Miyako	F	2 May 1901	22 July 2018		Wakayama	Kanagawa
04	Misao Okawa	F	5 March 1898	1 April 2015		Ōsaka	Ōsaka
05	Tane Ikai	F	18 January 1879	12 July 1995		Aichi	Aichi
06	Jiroemon Kimura	M	19 April 1897	12 June 2013		Kyōto	Kyōto
07	Shigeyo Nakachi	F	1 February 1905	11 January 2021		Saga	Saga
08	Fusa Tatsumi	F	25 April 1907	Living		Ōsaka	Ōsaka
09	Shimoe Akiyama	F	19 May 1903	29 January 2019		(unknown)	Aichi
10	Anonymous	F	15 March 1900	27 September 2015		(unknown)	Tōkyō
11	Shin Matsushita	F	30 March 1904	27 August 2019		Miyagi	Miyagi
12	Mina Kitagawa	F	3 November 1905	19 December 2020		Shiga	Shiga
13	Yoshi Otsunari	F	17 December 1906	26 January 2022		(unknown)	Fukuoka
14	Koto Okubo	F	24 December 1897	12 January 2013		Tōkyō	Kanagawa
15	Chiyono Hasegawa	F	20 November 1896	2 December 2011		Saga	Saga
16	Anonymous	F	29 April 1907	30 April 2022		(unknown)	Hyōgo
17	Kama Chinen	F	10 May 1895	2 May 2010		Okinawa	Okinawa
18	Kahoru Furuya	F	18 February 1908	25 December 2022		(unknown)	Shizuoka
19	Kiyoko Ishiguro	F	4 March 1901	5 December 2015		Tōkyō	Kanagawa
20	Yukie Hino	F	17 April 1902	13 January 2017		(unknown)	Niigata
21	Tomiko Itooka	F	23 May 1908	Living		Ōsaka	Hyōgo
22	Hide Ohira	F	15 September 1880	9 May 1995		Wakayama	Wakayama
23	Yone Minagawa	F	4 January 1893	13 August 2007		Fukuoka	Fukuoka
24	Ura Koyama	F	30 August 1890	5 April 2005		Hiroshima	Fukuoka
25	Yoshi Baba	F	3 June 1907	4 January 2022		Yamanashi	Yamanashi
26	Iso Nakamura	F	23 April 1903	23 November 2017		Ishikawa	Ishikawa
27	Kimiko Ono	F	20 June 1908	Living		Wakayama	Ōsaka
28	Mitsue Toyoda	F	15 February 1902	25 August 2016		(unknown)	Ōita
29	Tase Matsunaga	F	11 May 1884	18 November 1998		Niigata	Tōkyō
	Kame Ganeko	F	10 April 1905	18 October 2019		Okinawa	Okinawa
31	Yukichi Chuganji	M	23 March 1889	28 September 2003		Fukuoka	Fukuoka
32	Kame Nakamura	F	8 March 1898	12 September 2012		Okinawa	Okinawa
33	Mitoyo Kawate	F	15 May 1889	13 November 2003		Hiroshima	Hiroshima
34	Toshie Yorimitsu	F	30 September 1901	28 February 2016		Kōchi	Okinawa
35	Tae Ito	F	11 July 1903	13 November 2017		Iwate	Iwate
36	Hama Yasukawa	F	19 January 1907	23 May 2021		Hyōgo	Hyōgo
37	Chiyo Shiraishi	F	6 August 1895	19 November 2009		Fukushima	Ibaraki
38	Asa Takii	F	28 April 1884	31 July 1998		Hiroshima	Hiroshima
39	Waka Shirahama	F	23 March 1878	16 June 1992		Kagoshima	Miyazaki
40	Osugi Sogo	F	13 August 1905	4 November 2019		Hiroshima	Ehime
41	Suekiku Miyanaga	F	7 April 1884	20 June 1998		Kagoshima	Kagoshima
42	Shige Hirooka	F	16 January 1897	29 March 2011		(unknown)	Ōsaka
43	Yasue Okai	F	25 November 1908	Living		Ōsaka	Ōsaka
44	Hide Hamabe	F	3 December 1908	10 January 2023		Miyazaki	Miyazaki
45	Tomoe Iwata	F	25 March 1904	13 April 2018		Iwate	Iwate
46	Tane Yonekura	F	2 May 1904	19 May 2018		(unknown)	Kagoshima
47	Kura Bingo	F	20 October 1905	31 October 2019		(unknown)	Nara
48	Yoshiyo Bessho	F	1 April 1904	8 April 2018		Okayama	Okayama
49	Hatsue Ono	F	31 October 1898	17 October 2012		Iwate	Hokkaidō
50	Yasu Akino	F	1 March 1885	12 February 1999		Shizuoka	Shizuoka
51	Nahi Yonamine	F	9 March 1908	7 February 2022		Okinawa	Okinawa
52	Shinobu Hayashi	F	15 March 1909	Living		(unknown)	Kumamoto
53	Sayo Taminato	F	15 October 1906	7 August 2020		Okinawa	Okinawa
	Fumi Hoshino	F	30 October 1908	23 August 2022		Tōkyō	Tōkyō
55	Kimi Asanuma	F	3 November 1905	22 August 2019		(unknown)	Tōkyō
56	Tsuneyo Toyonaga	F	21 May 1894	22 February 2008		Kōchi	Kōchi
57	Tomoji Tanabe	M	18 September 1895	19 June 2009		Miyazaki	Miyazaki
58	Mitsue Nagasaki	F	18 September 1899	17 June 2013		Kumamoto	Hiroshima
59	Shizue Nagata	F	25 July 1903	12 April 2017		(unknown)	Kumamoto
	Teru Oshiro	F	10 May 1904	26 January 2018		Okinawa	Okinawa
61	Hatsuno Goto	F	1 September 1903	15 May 2017		Niigata	Tōkyō
62	Tsurue Amou	F	1 March 1904	6 November 2017		(unknown)	Tokushima
63	Katsue Kurimoto	F	20 March 1907	22 November 2020		Tokushima	Nara
64	Hisa Arai	F	10 September 1904	4 May 2018		Gifu	Gifu
65	Shige Mineshiba	F	18 May 1909	6 January 2023		Aichi	Canada
66	Shitsu Nakano	F	1 January 1894	19 August 2007		Fukuoka	Fukuoka
67	Taka Tsuji	F	6 August 1906	4 March 2020		Saga	Saga
68	Tsukimi Kishi	F	31 August 1905	19 March 2019		Tochigi	Tochigi
69	Mitsuno Sato	F	9 April 1909	6 October 2022		(unknown)	Akita
70	Masazō Nonaka	M	25 July 1905	20 January 2019		Hokkaidō	Hokkaidō
71	Kiku Usami	F	1 September 1904	26 February 2018		(unknown)	Niigata
72	Tame Yamaguchi	F	20 March 1907	6 September 2020		Kagoshima	Miyazaki
73	Masa Iseri	F	19 September 1902	5 March 2016		(unknown)	Kumamoto
74	Koito Furukawa	F	8 May 1901	11 October 2014		(unknown)	Tokushima
75	Katsue Hiraishi	F	9 June 1904	6 November 2017		Tokushima	Tokushima
76	Yoshino Tanaka	F	3 March 1900	30 July 2013		Okinawa	Nagasaki
77	Terue Ashida	F	20 September 1899	15 February 2013		Hyōgo	Hyōgo
78	Okagi Hayashi	F	2 September 1909	Living		(unknown)	Gifu
79	Kesa Yamada	F	30 March 1907	15 August 2020		Gunma	Gunma
80	Komiya Miyazaki	F	20 August 1897	4 January 2011		Hiroshima	Hiroshima
81	Mise Ito	F	6 November 1890	18 March 2004		Shizuoka	Shizuoka
82	Jun Kitamasu	F	2 March 1900	11 July 2013		Hiroshima	Hiroshima
83	Kaku Yamanaka	F	11 December 1894	5 April 2008		Aichi	Aichi
	Motome Hirata	F	12 August 1906	6 December 2019		Nagano	Chiba
	Setsuko Moriyama	F	5 November 1907	1 March 2021		Okinawa	Okinawa
86	Shina Seki	F	1 October 1909	Living		(unknown)	Ibaraki
87	Sue Utagawa	F	19 January 1884	4 May 1997		Yamaguchi	Yamaguchi
88	Niwa Kawamoto	F	5 August 1863	16 November 1976		(unknown)	Shiga
89	Tome Takaoka	F	1 January 1899	12 April 2012		Ōsaka	Ibaraki
90	Masayo Ito	F	1 October 1902	6 January 2016		(unknown)	Miyagi
91	Tane Matsubara	F	15 October 1909	Living		(unknown)	Hokkaidō
92	Kame Takamiyagi	F	10 June 1899	10 September 2012		Okinawa	Okinawa
93	Natsuyo Kinase	F	30 October 1906	26 January 2020		Miyagi	Kanagawa
94	Chiyono Ohta	F	1 November 1896	25 January 2010		Miyagi	Miyagi
95	Sumie Yabune	F	5 February 1907	23 April 2020		Wakayama	Wakayama
96	Kano Ebara	F	30 March 1907	14 June 2020		(unknown)	Okayama
97	Mie Ishiguro	F	2 June 1888	14 August 2001		Hokkaidō	Hokkaidō
98	Hina Shikawatari	F	1 January 1899	15 February 2012		(unknown)	Ishikawa
99	Kuni Onose	F	31 December 1904	5 February 2018		Ibaraki	Ibaraki
100	Yoshino Ide	F	1 January 1896	28 January 2009		(unknown)	Hyōgo

Biographies

Denzo Ishizaki

Denzō Ishizaki (石崎 伝蔵, Ishizaki Denzō, 20 October 1886 (or 1884?) – 29 April 1999) was an elementary school teacher and town assembly member in his hometown Kansago, Ibaraki Prefecture. At the time of his death, Ishizaki had been the world's oldest living man for almost 18 weeks, as well as the 9th oldest living person in the world. He died of multiple organ failure on 29 April 1999 at age 112 years and 191 days, and was the oldest Japanese man ever (until October 2001, when his record was broken by Yukichi Chuganji). However, Ishizaki claimed to be two years older, asserting that his birth register had been "delayed by two years".

Yukichi Chuganji

Yukichi Chuganji (中願寺 雄吉; Chūganji Yūkichi, 23 March 1889 – 28 September 2003) was a Japanese silkworm breeder, instructor in the agricultural specialty, bank employee and community welfare officer who lived for 114 years and 189 days. At the time of his death, he was the oldest Japanese man ever and the world's oldest living person.

Chuganji didn’t like to eat vegetables but liked beef, pork and chicken. He also ate toffee, drank milk, the occasional apple juice and only drank alcohol in moderation, which he believed were the secrets to a long life. During the last years of his life, he had failing eye sight and was bedridden. He died of natural causes on the evening of 28 September 2003, after being served a glass of apple juice by his 74-year-old daughter who was his only living child. Besides 5 children, Chuganji also had 7 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.

Nabi Tajima

Nabi Tajima (田島 ナビ, Tajima Nabi, 4 August 1900 – 21 April 2018) succeeded Violet Brown as the world's oldest person after Brown's death on 16 September 2017. She was the last person verified as having been born in the 19th century.

Tajima was born and died on the small island of Kikaijima, about halfway between Okinawa and the main Japanese islands. Her husband, Tominishi Tajima (田島 富二子), died at the age of 93 in 1991. She had nine children, seven sons and two daughters, and in September 2017 she was reported to have had around 160 descendants, including great-great-great-grandchildren. She stated that her longevity was due to sleeping soundly and eating delicious food. Guinness World Records was planning to certify Tajima as the world's oldest person, but she died at a nursing home in Kikai shortly before they could do so.

She died at age 117 years and 260 days on 21 April 2018, and was the oldest Japanese person ever until Kane Tanaka surpassed her age on 19 September 2020.

Masazō Nonaka

Masazō Nonaka (野中 正造, Nonaka Masazō, 25 July 1905 – 20 January 2019) had been, at the time of his death, Japan's oldest living man since October 2016, and the world's oldest living man for one year, since January 2018. Nonaka was also the oldest person ever born in Hokkaidō.

He had two brothers and three sisters; Nonaka married Hatsuno Nonaka in 1931. They had five children, of whom three were living as of his death. He ran the family onsen, which opened in 1905. He spent most of his later years in a wheelchair, crediting his longevity to eating sweets and relaxing in the hot springs. Nonaka died at home of natural causes at 1:30 a.m. on 20 January 2019, aged 113 years and 179 days.

See also

• Shigechiyo Izumi, wrongly assumed to have been the world's oldest man ever