TOKYO — The world's oldest person, Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka, has died at the age of 116, the city of Ashiya where she lived announced on Saturday.

Itooka, who had four children and five grandchildren, died on Dec. 29 at a nursing home where she resided since 2019, the southern city's mayor said in a statement.

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