Tuesday, April 10, 2018

112-year-old Japanese Certified As World’s Oldest Living Man

Masazo Nonaka has been recognized by Guinness World Records, on Tuesday as the world’s oldest living man. He is a 112-year-old Japanese national.



Nonaka, who lives in a family-run hot spring inn on the northern island of Hokkaido, received a certificate from Erika Ogawa, vice president for Japan at the record-keeping organization.

The former inn owner in the town of Ashoro now likes to spend time with his family and also reads newspapers, watches TV and indulges in sweets, according to Guinness.

Nonaka was born on July 25, 1905, just months before Albert Einstein published his special theory of relativity. In 1931, Nonaka married Hatsuno and went on to have five children with her.


Nonaka has seven brothers and one sister, who live nearby in the town.

He was certified as the world’s oldest man after Francisco Nunez Olivera in Spain died in January at the age of 113.

“I am happy to have lived to see many generations. I never thought this could be possible especially what I experienced during the great wars” Nonaka had said

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