Japanese supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from Japan who have attained or surpassed the age of 110 years. , the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 263 Japanese supercentenarians, most of whom are women. As of , the oldest-known living Japanese person is Fuyo Kishimoto (born in Hamasaka on 20 December 1911), who is aged . The oldest verified Japanese and Asian person ever is Kane Tanaka (1903–2022), who lived to the age of 119 years and 107 days, making her the second-oldest validated person ever as well. Japan was also home to the world's oldest man ever, Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013), who lived to the age of 116 years and 54 days.

100 oldest-known Japanese

RankNameSex Birth date Death date AgeBirthplacePlace of deathor residence 1Kane Tanaka F Fukuoka Fukuoka 2Nabi Tajima F Kagoshima Kagoshima 3Chiyo Miyako F Wakayama Kanagawa 4Misao Okawa F Osaka Osaka 5Fusa Tatsumi F Osaka Osaka 6Tomiko Itooka F Osaka Hyōgo 7Tane Ikai F Aichi Aichi 8Jiroemon Kimura M Kyoto Kyoto 9Shigeyo Nakachi F Saga Saga 10Shimoe Akiyama F Aichi Aichi 11Okagi Hayashi F Gifu Gifu 12Anonymous F Tokyo Tokyo 13Shin Matsushita F Miyagi Miyagi 14Shigeko Kagawa F Nara Nara 15Mina Kitagawa F Shiga Shiga 16Yoshi Otsunari F Fukuoka Fukuoka 17Koto Ōkubo F Tokyo Kanagawa 18Chiyono Hasegawa F Saga Saga 19Anonymous F Hyōgo Hyōgo 20Kama Chinen F Okinawa Okinawa 21Kahoru Furuya F Shizuoka Shizuoka 22Fuyo Kishimoto F Living Hyōgo Kyoto 23Kiyoko Ishiguro F Tokyo Kanagawa 24Yukie Hino F Niigata Niigata 25Mine Kondō F Aichi Aichi 26Hide Ohira F Wakayama Wakayama 27Masa Matsumoto F Shiga Kanagawa 28Yone Minagawa F Fukuoka Fukuoka 29Ura Koyama F Hiroshima Fukuoka 30Yoshi Baba F Yamanashi Yamanashi 31Iso Nakamura F Ishikawa Ishikawa 32Haruno Yamashita F Fukuoka Fukuoka 33Mitsue Toyoda F Ōita Ōita 34Tase Matsunaga F Niigata TokyoKame Ganeko F Okinawa Okinawa 36Yukichi Chuganji M Fukuoka Fukuoka 37Kame Nakamura F Okinawa Okinawa 38Miyoko Hiroyasu F Ōita Ōita 39Mitoyo Kawate F Hiroshima Hiroshima 40Masu Usui F Shizuoka Shizuoka 41Ina Okazawa F Ibaraki Ibaraki 42Toshie Yorimitsu F Kōchi Okinawa 43Ushi Makishi F Okinawa Okinawa 44Kimiko Ono F Wakayama Osaka 45Tae Ito F Iwate Iwate 46Hama Yasukawa F Hyōgo Hyōgo 47Chiyo Shiraishi F Fukushima Ibaraki 48Hisako Shiroishi F Saitama Saitama 49Michiko Yamazaki F Nagano Nagano 50Asa Takii F Hiroshima Hiroshima 51Tane Matsubara F Tochigi Hokkaido 52Waka Shirahama F Kagoshima MiyazakiOsugi Sogo F Hiroshima Ehime 54Suekiku Miyanaga F Kagoshima Kagoshima 55Yasue Okai F Osaka Osaka 56Shige Hirooka F Osaka Osaka 57Kiyo Komatsu F Ishikawa Saitama 58Hide Hamabe F Miyazaki MiyazakiSeki Yoshida F Ibaraki Ibaraki 60Tomoe Iwata F Iwate IwateChihiro Takaoka F Living unknown Hyōgo 62Tane Yonekura F Kagoshima Kagoshima 63Kura Bingo F Nara Nara 64Yoshiyo Bessho F Okayama Okayama 65Fujiko Mihara F Ehime Ehime 66Kikue Taira F Okinawa Okinawa 67Hatsue Ono F Iwate Hokkaido 68Yasu Akino F Shizuoka Shizuoka 69Anonymous F Living unknown Chiba 70Nahi Yonamine F Okinawa Okinawa 71Sumiko Mori F Ōita Mie 72Shinobu Hayashi F Kumamoto Kumamoto 73Sayo Taminato F Okinawa OkinawaFumi Hoshino F Tokyo Tokyo 75Kimi Asanuma F Tokyo Tokyo 76Tsuneyo Toyonaga F Kōchi Kōchi 77Yukie Takahashi F Living unknown Tokyo 78Tomoji Tanabe M Miyazaki Miyazaki 79Mitsue Nagasaki F Kumamoto Hiroshima 80Hisa Ono F Saga Saga 81Shizue Nagata F Kumamoto KumamotoTeru Ōshiro F Okinawa OkinawaKimi Kawasaki F Chiba Kanagawa 84Kiyo Itō F Hokkaido Hokkaido 85Hatsuno Gotō F Niigata Tokyo 86Tsurue Amō F Tokushima Tokushima 87Katsuko Tago F Nagano Tokyo 88Katsue Kurimoto F Tokushima Nara 89Hisa Arai F Gifu Gifu 90Shitsu Nakano F Fukuoka FukuokaMisao Uemura F Fukushima Shiga 92Taka Tsuji F Saga Saga 93Nobu Kawano F Ibaraki Kanagawa 94Shina Seki F Ibaraki Ibaraki 95Tsukimi Kishi F Tochigi Tochigi 96Mitsuno Sato F Akita Akita 97Masazō Nonaka M Hokkaido Hokkaido 98Kiku Usami F Niigata Niigata 99Tame YamaguchiFKagoshimaMiyazaki100Masa IseriFKumamotoKumamoto

Biographies

Tane Ikai

had been, until her death, Japan's oldest person following the death of 114-year-old Waka Shirahama in 1992, while also being the first person in Japan to reach the ages of 115 and 116 and being the last Japanese person born in the 1870s.

Tane Ikai was born in Aichi, Empire of Japan on 18 January 1879. She married at 20 and had three sons and a daughter. She separated from her husband in 1917 at the age of 38.

On a typical day, Ikai would eat three meals of rice porridge. In 1968, at the age of 89, she moved into a nursing home where she was to live for the next 20 years. She played an active role in activities at the home and enjoyed making pottery and sewing until suffering her first stroke in 1978 at the age of 99. In 1988, at the age of 109, Ikai suffered another stroke and was moved to a hospital, where she remained bedridden for the rest of her life. She died of kidney failure on 12 July 1995.

Denzō Ishizaki

was an elementary school teacher and town assembly member in his hometown Kansago, Ibaraki Prefecture. At the time of his death, Ishizaki had been the world's oldest-living man for almost 18 weeks. He died of multiple organ failure on 29 April 1999 at age 112 (or 114?) years and 209 days, and was the oldest Japanese man ever (until October 2001, when his record was broken by Yukichi Chuganji). However, Ishizaki claimed to be two years older, asserting that his birth register had been "delayed by two years". In July 2023, LongeviQuest determined that Ishizaki was born 18 days earlier than previously believed, based on his family records.

Yukichi Chuganji

Yukichi Chuganji (中願寺 雄吉; Chūganji Yūkichi, 23 March 1889 – 28 September 2003) was a Japanese silkworm breeder and specialist, bank employee and community welfare officer who lived for 114 years and 189 days. At the time of his death, he was the oldest Japanese man ever and the world's oldest-living person. He was the fourth out of currently six known men to hold the title.

His diet consisted primarily of meat. He also ate toffee, drank milk, the occasional apple juice and only drank alcohol in moderation, which he believed were the secrets to a long life. He died of natural causes on the evening of 28 September 2003, after being served a glass of apple juice by his 74-year-old daughter, who was his only living child. Besides five children, Chuganji also had seven grandchildren and twelve great-grandchildren.

Misao Okawa

became the world's oldest-living person following the death of 116-year-old Jiroemon Kimura in June 2013 until her own death in 2015.

Misao Okawa was born on 5 March 1898 in Tenma-Ku (now Kita-ku), Osaka Prefecture, Empire of Japan. Prior to her marriage, she helped with her family's clothing business. In 1919, she married her husband Yukio, who ran his own business in Kobe. They had three children, two daughters and a son. In February 2013, one of her daughters, Shizuyo, and her son Hiroshi, were still alive. After twelve years of marriage, Yukio Okawa died on 20 June 1931 at the age of 36 from heart disease. Following the death of her husband, Okawa moved back to Osaka with her three children. Okawa lived with her son and daughter-in-law. In 2000, she broke her leg at the age of 102. She was able to walk until she was age 110, after which she needed a wheelchair.

Okawa died in Higashisumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, Japan, on 1 April 2015 from heart failure, at the age of 117 years, 27 days.

Nabi Tajima

succeeded Violet Brown as the world's oldest person after Brown's death on 15 September 2017. She died seven months later and was the last person verified as having been born in the 19th century.

Tajima was born and died on the small island of Kikaijima in the Amami Islands chain, about halfway between Okinawa and the main Japanese islands. Her husband, Tominishi Tajima (田島 富二子), died aged 93 in 1991.子孫140人...発酵飲料好み、よく食べ 国内最高齢117歳の田島ナビさん She had nine children: seven sons and two daughters, and in September 2017 she was reported to have had around 160 descendants, including great-great-great-grandchildren.117歳 世界一へ県民栄誉検討 田島ナビさんを知事訪問 鹿児島県喜界町 She stated that her longevity was due to sleeping soundly and eating delicious food. Guinness World Records was planning to certify Tajima as the world's oldest person, but she died at a nursing home in Kikai shortly before they could do so.World's oldest woman misses record, The World News, 22 April 2018

She died at age 117 years and 260 days on 21 April 2018, and was the oldest Japanese person ever until Kane Tanaka surpassed her age in September 2020.

Yasutaro Koide worked as a tailor for a men's clothes shop in Tsuruga, Fukui. He moved to Nagoya when he was 107 years old, to live with his daughter. When he turned 110, Koide could still read newspapers without eyeglasses and eat without dentures.

On 31 March 2014, Koide became the oldest-living person in Aichi Prefecture following the death of Nagoya resident Tsuya Miura, who died at the age of 111. He became the oldest-living man in the world following the death of Sakari Momoi on 5 July 2015, a feat which was recognized by Guinness World Records on 21 August 2015. When asked about the secret to his long life, Koide responded by stating that "the best thing is to not overdo" and recommending abstinence from smoking or drinking.

Koide died on 19 January 2016 due to heart failure and pneumonia in a hospital in Nagoya at the age of 112 years, 312 days.

Masazō Nonaka

had been, until his death, Japan's oldest-living man since October 2016, and the world's oldest-living man for one year, since January 2018. Nonaka was also the oldest person ever born in Hokkaidō.

He had two brothers and three sisters; Nonaka married Hatsuno Nonaka in 1931. They had five children, of whom three were living as of his death.Japan's Masazo Nonaka, declared world's oldest living man in 2018, dies aged 113 Nonaka enjoyed relaxing in hot springs, reading newspapers, eating cake and watching sumo on television, his family said, SCMP, 20 January 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2019. He ran the family onsen, which opened in 1905. He spent most of his later years in a wheelchair, crediting his longevity to eating sweets and relaxing in the hot springs. Nonaka died on 20 January 2019, aged 113 years and 179 days.

Fusa Tatsumi

was a Japanese supercentenarian. She was Japan's oldest-living person after the death of Kane Tanaka on 19 April 2022.

Fusa Tatsumi was born in Yao, Osaka Prefecture, Empire of Japan on 25 April 1907. Tatsumi moved into the Hakuto nursing home in Kashiwara, Osaka Prefecture, Japan in 2013. When she came to the nursing home she was in relatively good health, and was able to do gymnastics from her wheelchair. Aged 110, she was still able to do her own makeup. She was bedridden and rarely spoke in her later years. Tatsumi died of respiratory failure on 12 December 2023, aged 116 years and 231 days.

Tomiko Itooka

was a Japanese supercentenarian. She was Japan's oldest-living person after the death of Fusa Tatsumi on 12 December 2023. Tomiko Itooka was born in Osaka, Osaka Prefecture, Empire of Japan on 23 May 1908. She moved into a nursing home in Ashiya, Hyōgo in 2019. She was at the time still able to move independently, but later mainly used a wheelchair. On 19 August 2024, following Maria Branyas' death, she became the world's oldest-living person. Itooka died from natural causes on 29 December 2024, aged 116 years, 220 days.

Okagi Hayashi

was a Japanese supercentenarian, who was the oldest living person in Japan.