{"id":73956,"date":"2025-09-05T20:49:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/05\/japanese-man-becomes-oldest-person-to-reach-summit-of-mount-fuji-at-102"},"modified":"2025-09-05T20:49:24","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T11:49:24","slug":"japanese-man-becomes-oldest-person-to-reach-mount-fuji-summit-at-102","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=73956","title":{"rendered":"Japanese man becomes oldest person to reach Mount Fuji summit at 102"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kokichi Akuzawa climbed with 70-year-old daughter to break record for oldest person to make ascent \u2013 a second time<\/p>\n<p>Kokichi Akuzawa has become the oldest person to climb to the top of Mount Fuji at the age of 102 \u2013 despite almost giving up during his trek.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was really tempted to give up halfway through,\u201d Akuzawa said. \u201cReaching the summit was tough, but my friends encouraged me, and it turned out well. I managed to get through it because so many people supported me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/sep\/05\/japanese-man-becomes-oldest-person-to-reach-summit-of-mount-fuji-at-102\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kokichi Akuzawa climbed with 70-year-old daughter to break record for oldest person to make ascent \u2013 a second timeKokichi Akuzawa has become the oldest person to climb to the top of Mount Fuji at the age of 102 \u2013 despite almost giving up during his tre&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[2474,41,65,1056,88,239,760,1222,79,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ageing","category-asia-pacific","category-environment","category-guinness-world-records","category-japan","category-mountaineering","category-mountains","category-older-people","category-society","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\/73956","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73957,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73956\/revisions\/73957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}