{"id":68747,"date":"2025-01-04T21:08:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-04T12:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/04\/worlds-oldest-person-tomiko-itooka-dies-in-japan-aged-116"},"modified":"2025-01-05T00:08:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-04T15:08:10","slug":"worlds-oldest-person-tomiko-itooka-dies-in-japan-aged-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68747","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s oldest person, Tomiko Itooka, dies in Japan aged 116"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Itooka, who died at a care home in Ashiya, enjoyed bananas and had been a keen mountain climber<\/p>\n<p>A Japanese woman who was the world\u2019s oldest living person has died at the age of 116.<\/p>\n<p>Tomiko Itooka, who was awarded the Guinness World Record status last year, died on 29 December at a care home in Ashiya, Hyogo prefecture in central Japan.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/jan\/04\/worlds-oldest-person-tomiko-itooka-dies-in-japan-aged-116\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Itooka, who died at a care home in Ashiya, enjoyed bananas and had been a keen mountain climberA Japanese woman who was the world\u2019s oldest living person has died at the age of 116.Tomiko Itooka, who was awarded the Guinness World Record status last yea&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2342,"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":[41,88,1222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-japan","category-older-people","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\/68747","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\/2342"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68747"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68753,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68747\/revisions\/68753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}