Ms. Yamamoto wrote:

LongeviQuest has published additional photos courtesy of Mrs. Hayashi's family.

https://longeviquest.com/supercentenarians/okagi-hayashi/

Okagi Hayashi's page on LongeviQuest

At age 28

At age 66

Around 70's

At 100 years old, September celebration (visited by the mayor)

At the age of 111

Note:

When citing these photos on another site, please mention that LQ published these photos courtesy of her family.

On 25 May 2023, following the sad passing of Ms. Plammer, Ms. Hayashi became the 10th-oldest validated living person.

Topic moved to the Top 10 section.

Slightly different picture of Mrs. Hayashi meeting with this gentleman. I don't know who the gentleman is, but possibly a gerontology researcher? Anyway, I thought it was a cool picture as the other one just shows his hand on a poster that Mrs. Hayashi is holding. 

@aquanaut_chalk

This man is an employee of Gifu Prefecture.

  http://tononews.com/blog-entry-7659.html

On 4 July 2023, following the sad passing of Ms. Makishi, Ms. Hayashi became the 9th-oldest validated living person.

Happy Birthday Mrs. Hayashi

Articles from 106-109 with lots of photos of Okagi Hayashi, who could still walk into her late centenarian years at least 

Article from 106th birthday 
https://tononews-com.translate.goog/blo ... _tr_pto=sc
Article from 107th birthday 
https://tononews-com.translate.goog/blo ... _tr_pto=sc
Article from 108th birthday (with photos of her standing)
https://tononews-com.translate.goog/blo ... _tr_pto=sc 
Article from 109th birthday (article says she can still walk with a cane)
https://tononews-com.translate.goog/blo ... _tr_pto=sc
Article from 110th birthday 
https://tononews-com.translate.goog/blo ... _tr_pto=sc
According to these articles, Mrs. Hayashi is quite hard of hearing but still mentally sharp. Birthdays 111-113 did not have articles and photos like the previous birthdays because of the pandemic. Maybe another one will come out in the next few days (most of the previous articles took a few days)

On 12 December 2023, following the sad passing of Ms. Tatsumi, Ms. Hayashi became the 8th-oldest validated living person.

On 22nd February 2024, following the sad passing of Ms. Ceccarelli, Ms. Hayashi became the World's 7th-oldest validated living person.

And Gifu's oldest person ever is currently living (Okagi Hayashi). Are you going to visit the city where she lives?

@mrcatlord You made me realize a good point!. I had never thought about where she lives until now.

"Okagi" is a very rare name. I don't know of any other cases other than her. I believe this name comes from Ogaki City, the second largest city in Gifu Prefecture.

It was my first time actually riding the Tarumi Line, a railway line in Japan. Then I noticed that there are two names: Morera and Ogaki. Yes, Morera actually exists as Morera-Gifu Station, nearly Gifu prefecture's largest shopping mall.　The railway which include the two station that is high-ranked supercentenarian's name.

This line is unique in that it ignores Gifu City, the largest city in Gifu Prefecture, and connects to Ogaki Station. Coincidentally, from Maria to Okagi (Ogaki), this seemed to imply that Okagi Hayashi would inherit the position currently held by Maria Brañas Morera.

@record_116 What is the meaning of Morera in japanese? Morera means mulberry in spanish.

I have seen other interesting coincidences between japanese and spanish. For instance, Miura/Mihura exists as a surname in Japan and in Spain. Quite surprising.

Posted by: @siam

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@record_116 What is the meaning of Morera in japanese? Morera means mulberry in spanish.

I have seen other interesting coincidences between japanese and spanish. For instance, Miura/Mihura exists as a surname in Japan and in Spain. Quite surprising.

And there are two Ina(h)s from different parts of the world (Japan and Brazil) in the top ten

There is also Mina Kitagawa and Wilhelmine "Mina" Hehn (1913-2023) of Germany

@siam　I'm happy to talk to you again. By the way, this station was established as the closest station to "Malera Gifu", the largest shopping mall in Gifu Prefecture.
Malera is a coined word, not a original Japanese word.

Source:

モレラ岐阜 - Wikipedia

モレラ岐阜公式HP | MALera (malera-gifu.com)

However, what is interesting is that the station uses the spelling morera. Literally the same as her.

Yeah I surprised that Spainsh use the surname Miura!. I know some Spanish words used in Japan. It is famous for its sweet called castella.

@mrcatlord Ina is イナ＝稲、Although it may refer to a place name, in most cases this word means "rice,'' the main food of the Japanese people.

@record_116 Very interesting the castella sweet. I didn't know it. The name comes from Castile, the major region of Spain. This sweet was introduced by portuguese explorers in Japan hundreds of years ago. 

Another interesting coincidence between Japan and Spain is that during Football World Cup 2022, when Spain lost to Japan, a japanese player was Morita, and a spanish one Morata. Their surnames are almost the same. It was very funny that both were playing the same match.

Yes, Okagi is a very rare name. I did a Google search for Okagi and an article on Okagi Hayashi was the first result. That shows how rare the name really is.

Wow. According to forebears, there are only 3 people in the world named Okagi

On 2nd April 2024, following the sad passing of Mr. Perez Mora, Ms. Hayashi became the World's 6th-oldest validated living person.

Today Ms. Hayashi ties the final age of Ms. Yoshi Baba (JPN) at 114 years 215 days and she enters Top 100 Oldest People Ever!!! 
Congratulations!!

On 19 August 2024, following the sad passing of Mrs. Branyas Morera, Ms. Hayashi became the World's 5th-oldest validated living person.

Congratulations to Okagi Hayashi

A new picture of Okagi Hayashi added to the GRG's website

Glad we have a more recent photo of her at 115. She still looks good

Posted by: @billy-robinson

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Glad we have a more recent photo of her at 115. She still looks good

She is still able to feed herself, which is good, and she has her signature smile. Her hair looks shorter and lighter (but it might have been cut too). She almost resembles Kane Tanaka a bit; maybe she is the second coming of her

Okagi Hayashi looks great in her new photo. 

I also notice that she has a certain resemblance to Kane Tanaka, I hope she does very well.

Posted by: @mrcatlord

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....A new picture of Okagi Hayashi at 115 added to the GRG's website

@straycat wrote:

This photo was not taken in 2024.
The exact same photo was also published in Toki City's public information in January 2023.
She was 113 years old at the time.
.... her photos taken in 2024 are not available to the public.

https://www.city.toki.lg.jp/_res/projects/default_project/_page_/001/006/341/1-24ikkatu.pdf

I will refrain from trusting the GRG, I see that it has not been reliable for a long time.

From now on I will only pay attention to updates, confirmations, information, etc. by LongeviQuest.

How can they be this unreliable. So we don't know how Hayashi is still doing. I hope she's doing well but the GRG is more than unreliable at this rate.

On 22nd October 2024, following the sad passing of Ms. Francis, Ms. Hayashi became the World's 4th-oldest validated living person.