Mine Kondō (born 1 September 1910) has been the oldest person in Aichi Prefecture, Japan, since Shizu Narita’s death on March 2nd 2023. She is presumably celebrating her 113th birthday as I post this message
On her 112th birthday in September 2022
In January 2023 at the age of 112
Aged 105, in 2015.
On her 110th birthday in 2020.
Aged 110, in January 2021.
On her 111th birthday in 2021.
Aged 111, in October 2021.
http://www.supercentenariditalia.it/persone-viventi-piu-longeve-in-italia.
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this report from yesterday (5th of September) lists the oldest person in Aichi Prefecture as an 112-year-old woman living in Toyota City (where Kondo lives). I would assume they had gotten the info for the oldest person a few days earlier, before she turned 113, and didn’t know she’d had her birthday since
In August 2023 aged 112, from her nursing home’s blog
They post around 25 times a month and each post has several photos, and given that I only had to scroll through half a month’s worth of posts to find another picture of her there are surely many more photos of her on here. Once she appears again in a new blog post that will be confirmation for sure that she reached her 113th birthday
Photos from most recent blog post. Obviously she is in good health if she is able to feed herself
Mine Kondō is now in the Japanese top ten, following the passing of Mrs. Tatsumi (and assuming Uema and the Ibaraki woman are both alive, if not she may have already been in the top ten)
http://www.supercentenariditalia.it/persone-viventi-piu-longeve-in-italia.
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On 19th August 2024, following the sad passing of Ms. Branyas Morera, Ms. Kondo became the World's 10th-oldest validated living person.
Topic moved to the Top 10 section.
http://www.supercentenariditalia.it/persone-viventi-piu-longeve-in-italia.
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Mine Kondo has climbed up the ranks quite quickly, especially this past month
Now the top ten is no longer 114+. At least her birthday is very soon
@mrcatlord So long as the bad luck does not continue and no other supercentenarians die before her birthday, we should see another period of a 114+ top 10.
@mrcatlord So long as the bad luck does not continue and no other supercentenarians die before her birthday, we should see another period of a 114+ top 10.
There are still six other people born in 1910 after her so hopefully we get to a dozen or more by the end of the year
Mrs. Kondo has gained the titles of 8th-oldest person, the oldest Japanese person born in 1910, and third oldest Japanese person following the sad deaths of Shiroishi and Kretschmann
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On 11th September 2024, following the sad passing of Ms. Martin Diaz, Ms. Kondo became the World's 7th-oldest validated living person.
http://www.supercentenariditalia.it/persone-viventi-piu-longeve-in-italia.
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