World's oldest man dies in Japan at the age of 112

[IceWizard]

Published July 07, 2015

TOKYO – The world's oldest man, a retired educator from Japan, has died at the age of 112, an official said Tuesday.

Sakari Momoi died from kidney failure
Sunday at a nursing home in Tokyo, said
Saitama city official Aya Kato.

Momoi was born Feb. 5, 1903, in northern
Japan's Fukushima prefecture, where he
became a teacher. He later moved to
Saitama, north of Tokyo, and served as a
high school principal until retirement.

Momoi, who enjoyed Chinese poetry and
drawing, was certified by Guinness World
Records as the world's oldest man in
August 2014, when he was 111.

Another Japanese man, 112-year-old
Yasutaro Koide of Nagoya, succeeds
Momoi as the world's oldest man, according
to the Los Angeles-based Gerontology
Research Group.

Koide was born March 13, 1903.

One of the world's fastest-aging countries,
Japan has about 54,000 centenarians.

The world's oldest person is an American
woman, Susannah Mushatt Jones of
Brooklyn, New York, who celebrated her
116th birthday on Monday.

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[G.Elias]

wonder how those people manged to live so long,112,54,000 centurians,doubt i'll be joining that cub some how.