{"id":22909,"date":"2020-09-21T13:51:41","date_gmt":"2020-09-21T04:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/21\/woman-117-marks-becoming-japans-oldest-ever-person-with-cola-and-boardgames"},"modified":"2020-09-21T13:51:41","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T04:51:41","slug":"woman-117-marks-becoming-japans-oldest-ever-person-with-cola-and-boardgames","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22909","title":{"rendered":"Woman, 117, marks becoming Japan&#8217;s oldest ever person  with cola and boardgames"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kane Tanaka, who has not been able to see her family due to the pandemic, celebrated with a bottle of Coke<\/p>\n<p>A 117-year-old woman with a weakness for fizzy drinks and chocolate has become Japan\u2019s oldest person on record, as the country marks a public holiday devoted to its senior citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Kane Tanaka, who had already been recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/mar\/09\/japanese-woman-116-named-worlds-oldest-living-person\">world\u2019s oldest living person<\/a> in March last year, achieved the all-time Japanese age record on Saturday, when she became 117 years and 261 days old.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/21\/woman-117-marks-becoming-japans-oldest-ever-person-with-cola-and-boardgames\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kane Tanaka, who has not been able to see her family due to the pandemic, celebrated with a bottle of CokeA 117-year-old woman with a weakness for fizzy drinks and chocolate has become Japan\u2019s oldest person on record, as the country marks a public holi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,88,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22910,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22909\/revisions\/22910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}