Chiyono Hasegawa, Japanese supercentenarian, nation's oldest person and world's second oldest living person, died she was 115.

Chiyono Hasegawa was a Japanese supercentenarian.^[1] Aged 115 years 12 days at the time of her death, she was the oldest verified person in Japan since the death of Kama Chinen on 2 May 2010, and the oldest verified person in Asia died she was 115.. She was the 2nd oldest verified living person in the world behind American woman Besse Cooper. Hasegawa remains one of the 30 oldest undisputed people ever. She was the 26th verified and undisputed person to reach age 115, and only the third undisputed Japanese and Asian person to reach this age. She was the oldest person to die in 2011. She is also the first person aged 115 or more at the time of her death not to get the World's Oldest Person title since 2007.

Events

In September 2008 on Senior Citizen's Day, Chiyono Hasegawa, then 111, and her 61-year-old grandson were visited by Governor Furukawa of Saga Prefecture.^[2][3]
On 2 May 2010, the day she became the oldest verified living Japanese person, Hasegawa attended a ceremony held at her nursing home which announced her new record.^[4]


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