Tokyo – Sakari Momoi, certified as world oldest
living male by Guinness World Records, died on
Sunday, July 5 in Japan, an official said at
Saitama City, North of Tokyo, where he had lived
for many years.
Saitama city officials said the super-centenarian
was recognised as the world's oldest male at the
age of 111 in 2015. He died of kidney failure in a
care home in Tokyo.
Sakari Momoi
The officials said that Momoi, a former high
school principal who was born on Feb. 5, 1903,
had received a certificate from Guinness World
Records confirming the achievement in 2015.
He was born in Minamisoma, Fukushima, an area
badly hit by the deadly 9.0-magnitude earthquake
and tsunami in 2011.
According to U.S.-based Gerontology Research
Group, the title of the world's oldest living male
was now passed to Japan's Yasutaro Koide, also
112 years old and just over a month younger than
Momoi.
The research group said he was born on March
13, 1903.
The world's oldest living person recognised by
Guinness World Records was Susannah Mushatt
Jones, a resident of the New York, who turned
116 on Monday.
Born on July 6, 1899, Ms Jones became the
record holder at the age of 115 years and 346
days, as of June 17, 2015. (dpa/NAN)
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