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These are lists of Japanese supercentenarians (people from Japan who have attained the age of at least 110 years). The Gerontology Research Group (GRG), an organization that tracks supercentenarians and validates their ages, has verified age claims for over 300 such old people from Japan. The oldest Japanese person on record was Misao Okawa, who died at the age of 117 years 27 days on 1 April 2015. The oldest living person on record in Japan is Nabi Tajima, born on 4 August 1900 and aged 124 years, 168 days.

Living Japanese supercentenarians

100 oldest Japanese people on record

Below is a list of 100 supercentenarians who were born in Japan and are living in or have died in Japan. Entries for people who are living are rendered in italics.

† denotes age at death, or, if living, age as of 19 January 2025

Japanese emigrant supercentenarians

• Ito Konno Kinase (31 December 1889 — 24 January 2003) was born in Okinawa. She was 113 years, 24 days old when she passed away in the United States.

Oldest living Japanese by prefecture

This is a list of the oldest living people in Japan by prefecture as reported by official prefecture reports

Oldest Japanese person by prefecture

This is a list of the oldest people ever from each prefecture. Note that the list contains the oldest Japanese supercentenarian by prefecture of birth. Entries for people who are living are rendered in italics.

Chronological list of the oldest living person in Japan since 1992

People

Gengan Tonaki

Gengan Tonaki (渡名喜元完, Tonaki Gengan, 30 October 1884 – 24 January 1997) was Japan's oldest living man from 28 September 1991 until his death at age 112 years, 86 days on 24 January 1997. Tonaki lived in Okinawa Prefecture. At the time of his death, Tonaki was the third oldest living man, behind American men Christian Mortensen and Johnson Parks.

Denzo Ishizaki

Denzo Ishizaki (石崎 伝蔵, Ishizaki Denzō, 20 October 1886 – 29 April 1999) was for a short time Japan's oldest person and the world's oldest man, from February to April 1999. A former elementary school teacher and town assembly member, Ishizaki lived in Kansago, Ibaraki Prefecture, where he died of multiple organ failure on 29 April 1999 at the age of 112 years, 191 days.

Tase Matsunaga

Tase Matsunaga (松永 タセ, Matsunaga Tase, 11 May 1884 – 18 November 1998) was a Japanese supercentenarian. Matsunaga was born in Kiyosato in the Niigata prefecture though soon moved to Tokyo. She moved from Tokyo, where she lived with her daughter, to Mutsumien in 1983. A farmer for most of her life, she was still gardening when she was 112, but she was mostly bedridden after that. On 31 July 1998, she became the oldest recognized living person in Japan. Later that same year she died, aged 114 years 191 days, of heart failure. Matsunaga was the second oldest living person in the world behind Sarah Knauss.

Ura Koyama

Ura Koyama (小山 ウラ Koyama Ura, 30 August 1890 – 5 April 2005) of Iizuka became the oldest person in Japan upon the death of Mitoyo Kawate in November 2003. On 5 April 2005, she died of pneumonia at a hospital in Iizuka. At the time of her death, Koyama was the 4th oldest person in the world, aged 114 years 218 days. Following Koyama's death, Yone Minagawa became Japan's oldest living person.

Koto Okubo

Koto Okubo (大久保 琴, Ōkubo Koto, 24 December 1897 – 12 January 2013) was a Japanese supercentenarian who, at the time of her death aged 115 years and 19 days, was recognized as the oldest woman in the world and the second oldest living person behind Jiroemon Kimura.

Okubo became the oldest woman from Japan and Asia after the death of Chiyono Hasegawa on 2 December 2011. Okubo had been living in a nursing home in Kawasaki, Kanagawa with her son and died of pneumonia. The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare did not announce her name officially; only her residence and age were initially released.

The name of Okubo was finally reported by the Japanese press on 14 September 2012, and on the same day, Okubo was verified and added to the GRG list and Guinness World Records. On 17 December 2012, Dina Manfredini died, Okubo became the oldest recognized living woman.

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