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Japan Now Home to World's Oldest Person

Tuesday, January 30, 2007 6:34:47 AM
By MARI YAMAGUCHI

Yone Minagawa, 114, is congratulated by the staff at the Keiju nursing home at Fukuchi town in Fukuoka Prefecture (state), southwestern Japan Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2007. Minagawa was identified as the world's oldest person by the Guinness Book of World Records following the death Sunday of Emma Faust Tillman, also 114. The sign Minagawa is holding reads " Congratulations on being the world's oldest."  (AP Photo/Kyodo News) TOKYO (AP) - Two weeks after she turned 114, Yone Minagawa celebrated her long life again Tuesday when she learned she is believed to be the world's oldest person.

The Guinness Book of World Records bestowed the title on Minagawa following the death of Emma Faust Tillman, who was also 114, in the United States.

Staff at the nursing home where Minagawa lives in southern Japan greeted her Tuesday with a poster that said, "Congratulations, you're No. 1."


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