Chiyono Hasegawa
- In this Japanese name, the family name is Hasegawa.
Chiyono Hasegawa (長谷川 チヨノ, Hasegawa Chiyono, 20 November 1896 – 2 December 2011) was a Japanese supercentenarian[1] and at the time of her death the oldest living Japanese person for over one and a half year after Kame Chinen's death on 2 May 2010, and the second-oldest living person in the world behind American woman Besse Cooper.[2][3]
Chiyono Hasegawa | |
|---|---|
| Born | 20 November 1896 |
| Died | 2 December 2011 (aged 115 years, 12 days) Saga Prefecture, Japan |
Cooper and Hasegawa were, after the death of Italianwoman Venere Pizzinato who was just three days younger than Hasegawa and died 4 months before Hasegawa, the last two living people born in 1896.
Hasegawa was visited by Governor Furukawa of Saga Prefecture at her nursing home on Senior Citizen's Day in September 2008.[4]
Hasegawa died of natural causes at 8.28am on 2 December 2011, just 12 days after celebrating her 115th birthday, and was succeeded as the oldest living Japanese person by Jiroemon Kimura, and as the oldest living Japanese woman by Koto Okubo. Hasegawa, Kimura and Okubo were the first three Japanese persons who became 115 years old after 116-year-old Tane Ikai's death in July 1995.
References
change- ↑ "Japan's oldest person dies at 115," Mainichi Shimbun (Japan). December 3, 2011; retrieved 2011-12-27; archived here
- ↑ "Japan’s oldest person, 115-year-old Chiyono Hasegawa, dies," Globe and Mail (Canada). December 2, 2011. Retrieved 2011-12-27. [dead link]
- ↑ According to the Guiness Book of Records here, when Hasegawa died, the oldest person then known was Besse Cooper of Monroe, Georgia, in the United States.
- ↑ 最高齢111歳の長谷川さんを知事が訪問 ("Governor's visit to the oldest 111-year-old Hasegawa"), Archived 2017-09-04 at the Wayback Machine Saga Shimbun (Japan). September 11, 2008. Retrieved 2011-12-27.
Other websites
change- Gerontology Research Group Archived 2011-02-24 at the Wayback Machine (GRG), Supercentenarians, recent deaths 2011 Archived 2016-09-11 at the Wayback Machine; archived here Archived 2016-09-11 at the Wayback Machine