The Japanese dean of human age, Tomiko Itoka, dies at the age of 116

The Japanese Dean of Human Age, Tomiko Itoka, died at the age of 116, inside the nursing home where she had resided since 2019..

The municipality of the city of Ashiya in southern Japan reported that Itoka, who lived in the city, had four children and five grandchildren, came from a family of three children, and was a volleyball player in her youth, and had lived through wars, epidemics, and technological revolutions. .

It is noteworthy that Itoka was born on May 23, 1908 in Osaka, near Ashiya, and was classified as the oldest person in the world after the death of the Spanish Maria Branyas Moreira in August 2024 at the age of 117 years..