Re: World's Oldest Person Died Friday

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on 10/31/2003 10:54 AM, Rodney at perspect1111@... wrote:

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It worked for me.

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Dear All:

I can access this fox news site from Toronto, Canada. It's too bad that both the oldest man, and oldest woman, died this fall!

Please see ...

www.grg.org to check on who the current oldest humans are ... by referring to their "official tables". (They haven't yet updated Kamato).

-Brent Erskine

Toronto,CanadaFrancesca Skelton <fskelton@...> wrote:

on 10/31/2003 10:54 AM, Rodney at perspect1111@... wrote:Rodney: this URL doesn't work.> http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,101788,00.html> > >

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Hi Francesca:

Sorry about that. I have checked. It is the correct address. It is

worth reading in my opinion. I suggest to go to www.foxnews.com and

hope there is an item there which says " World's Oldest Person Dies at

116 " .

Here is the link again in case it works this time:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,101788,00.html

Rodney.

Of course I could try to cut/paste it instead:

" TOKYO — Kamato Hongo, a Japanese woman believed to have been the

world's oldest person, died Friday. She was 116. Born in 1887, Hongo

was recognized as the world's oldest by the Guinness Book of Records

after an American woman — Maude Farris-Luse — died in March at the

age of 115.

Her doctor, Kiyoshige Niina, said she died of pneumonia.

Hongo was famous throughout Japan for her habit of sleeping for two

days and then staying awake for two days.

She had been hospitalized in Kagoshima, on the southern island of

Kyushu on Oct. 8, after complaining of loss of appetite and fever.

She appeared to have been recovering when her condition worsened

Friday, Niina told a news conference.

Raised on a small, rural island on Japan's southern fringe, Hongo

grew up tending cows and farming potatoes. The same island also

produced the Japanese record-holder for longevity, a man, Shigechiyo

Izumi, who died in 1986 at the age of 120.

Hongo symbolized the graying of Japan's society — a trend that

elicits both pride and concern.

Until last month, the world's oldest documented man was also

Japanese — 114-year-old Yukichi Chuganji. He died Sept. 29.

Japan's life expectancy — 85.23 years for women and 78.32 for men in

2002 — is the longest in the world. The average age of the population

is also steadily rising.

An annual government survey released this year in conjunction with

Respect for the Aged Day (search), a national holiday, showed a

record 24.3 million Japanese — almost one in five — have reached

their 65th birthday.

At the same time, Japan marked a record low 1.32 births per woman

last year, a figure that been falling for the last three decades and

reflects changing values that have led more women to choose careers

over children.

The changing demographic has raised fears the nation's pension and

health care systems will be badly strained in the years ahead by a

population consisting of fewer people of working and taxpaying age.

It was not immediately clear who the world's oldest person was

following Hongo's death. Japan's Health, Labor and Welfare Ministry

said Mitoyo Kawate of Hiroshima — 114 years old — became the oldest

person in this country. "

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[Guest guest]

So the oldest person in Japan right now lives

in ..................... Hiroshima. Hmmmmm.

[Guest guest]

How wonder what the differences are in lifestyle between this island

and that of Okinawa.

-Dominick

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> Raised on a small, rural island on Japan's southern fringe, Hongo

> grew up tending cows and farming potatoes. The same island also

> produced the Japanese record-holder for longevity, a man, Shigechiyo

> Izumi, who died in 1986 at the age of 120.

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