Fusa Tatsumi, the world's second oldest woman and Japan's oldest living person has died at the age of 116.
According to ABS-CBN News, officials confirmed that she at a nursing home in Japan.
She passed away on Tuesday, December 12 at the care facility in Osaka after eating bean-paste jelly, which is her favourite meal of bean-paste jelly.
The Japan Times reports that she was born in April 1907 and had three children with her husband, a farmer, in Osaka.
An official was quoted as saying: 'Tatsumi died aged 116 at a care facility in Osaka on Tuesday.'
Fusa Tatsumi, a 116-year-old recognized as Japan's oldest person, died of old age Tuesday. https://t.co/0uz6jY8MOg
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'I think she did great to get to this age,' Tatsumi's eldest son, Kanji, 76, told local media after the supercentenarian's death.
According to ABS-CBN, Tatsumi became Japan's oldest person in the country in April 2022 after the death of a 119-year-old woman, Kane Tanaka.
