Gifu prefecture reports the death of its oldest living man, 106-year-old Minoru Nakamura (中村稔) of Gero, on 11 January 2023. He was born on 27 March 1916.
May he rest in peace.
His successor as oldest living man in Gifu prefecture is 105-year-old Mitsuo Hirai (平井光雄) of Toki, born on 1 March 1917. The prefecture also confirms 113-year-old Okagi Hayashi (林おかぎ) is still alive as of 12 January 2023.
Shiga prefecture reports that its oldest living man, 107-year-old Seizō Masuda (増田誠造) of Kōka, died on 13 January 2023. He was born on 2 December 1915.
May he rest in peace.
His successor as oldest living man in the prefecture is 106-year-old Takashi Fuchita (渕田孝) of Takashima, born in either November or December 1916.
The prefecture also reports that the oldest living person in the prefecture is 108-year-old Fumi Nakamura (中村フミ) of Yasu, born on 26 October 1914. This means that the two women who were reported as the oldest living people in Shiga prefecture last September have both gone to limbo. They were 109-year-olds Sumie Inoue (井上住栄) of Nagahama, born on 5 February 1913, and Misao Harada (原田みさを) of Ōtsu, born on 27 April 1913.
Mr Shōkichi Ōta (太田正吉) of Toyama City, Toyama, the oldest living man in Toyama prefecture after the death of Mr Ishii, died on 18 January 2023, just a couple weeks shy of his 108th birthday. He was born on 6 February 1915.
As reported by Ale76 elsewhere on this forum, Mr Tsuneji Ōyama (大山常次) of Kiyama, Saga has celebrated his 110th birthday, as he was confirmed alive on 31 January 2023 (using city statistics). He was born on 9 January 1913.
Mrs Fuji Takashima (高嶋フジ) of Zushi, Kanagawa (111 years old, b. 15 Aug 1911) is alive as of today; a televised interview with her will be broadcast in two days, on 11 March.
The oldest man in Hiroshima prefecture, 108-year-old Kiyoshi Kawamiya (河宮清) of Kumano, died on 3 March 2023, aged 108. He was born on 8 September 1914.
May he rest in peace.
His successor as oldest living man in Hiroshima prefecture is 107-year-old Isamu Mitsumasu (光増勇) of Higashihiroshima, who was born on 28 April 1915. The document also confirms 111-year-old Fusae Miyamoto (宮本フサエ) of Fukuyama, born on 15 October 1911, is still alive.
Mr Tomijūrō Arita (有田富十郎) of Sukumo, the oldest man in Kōchi prefecture, died on 28 February 2023, aged 106. He was born in the same city on 20 January 1907.
Mrs Tsuruji Mitsui (三井鶴治) of Minamiarupusu, Yamanashi celebrated her 110th birthday on 1 January 2023, meaning she was born on 1 January 1913. She was confirmed alive on 1 March 1913.
@ale76 Incredible... I'm rarely 100% confident in any longevity record, but I find it very, very unlikely that an older pair of siblings than Kame and Kikue has ever existed anywhere.
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City statistics from Kyōto City, Kyōto reveal that Chiyo Yamamoto (aged 112) and Fuyo Kishimoto (aged 111) are still alive. In addition, two other women have also reached supercentenarian status:
The oldest man in Fukushima prefecture, an anonymous man residing in Aizuwakamatsu, has entered limbo, aged 107. He was born in February 1916, and last confirmed alive on 1 July 2023.
Source (you need to click a couple of times to get to a CSV file).
Mrs Hisako Shiroishi (白石久子), 113, born 19 May 1910, the oldest person in Saitama prefecture, remembers the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1 September 1923, almost a hundred years ago today.
More about Fuji Takashima (高嶋フジ), born on 15 August 1911:
And a media article from today, but the interview is from 14 June 2023 (it's the interview on YouTube). The article explicitly mentions she was born in Kotsubo, part of Zushi (Kanagawa), and now lives in the Kanazawa ward in Yokohama (Kanagawa). (The quoted part below reveals that it's not the entire article, but you'd need to have a subscription for that.)
Mr Daiji Satō (佐藤大二) of Iwanuma, Miyagi entered limbo in May 2023, aged 109. He was born on 13 September 1913. He may have been the oldest living man in Miyagi prefecture, as Shinichi Gotō (後藤 信一), who was born two days before him, died in May 2023, but this is by no means certain.
関東大震災で津波に遭遇した髙嶋フジさん
