Kane Tanaka was born on Jan. 2, 1903, the same year the Wright brothers took flight for the first time.
FILE IMAGE - Kane Tanaka, a Japanese woman, celebrates with the official recognition of Guinness World Records' world's oldest verified living person in Fukuoka on March 9, 2019.
Tanaka was born on Jan. 2, 1903, and was from the southwestern Japanese city of Fukuoka. She was the seventh of nine siblings and was married at age 19, according to the Japanese news agencyHer life spanned several Japanese imperial eras, and she supported her family by running a noodle shop during the Second Sino-Japanese War in the late 1930s and early 1940s. She and her husband later ran a rice cake store after the war, Kyodo News reported.
posted by her family, "I was able to come this far with the support of many people. I hope you will continue to have fun, [and be] cheerful and energetic."
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