{"id":69898,"date":"2025-03-06T13:02:41","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T04:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/06\/shitsui-hakoishi-worlds-oldest-female-barber-nakagawa-japan"},"modified":"2025-03-06T13:02:41","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T04:02:41","slug":"im-truly-happy-108-year-old-takes-record-for-worlds-oldest-female-barber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=69898","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m truly happy\u2019: 108-year-old takes record for world\u2019s oldest female barber"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Shitsui Hakoishi can still cut it as a barber in her salon in the town of Nakagawa, after earning her licence in 1936<\/p>\n<p>A 108-year-old Japanese woman has been named the world\u2019s oldest female barber, nine decades after she first started cutting hair professionally.<\/p>\n<p>Shitsui Hakoishi, who received official recognition from Guinness World Records this week, said she had no plans to stop working at her salon in the town of Nakagawa, Tochigi prefecture.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/mar\/06\/shitsui-hakoishi-worlds-oldest-female-barber-nakagawa-japan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shitsui Hakoishi can still cut it as a barber in her salon in the town of Nakagawa, after earning her licence in 1936A 108-year-old Japanese woman has been named the world\u2019s oldest female barber, nine decades after she first started cutting hair profes&#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":[2474,88],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ageing","category-japan"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69898","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=69898"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69899,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69898\/revisions\/69899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=69898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=69898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=69898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}