Sadayoshi Tanabe

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Sadayoshi Tanabe (October 20, 1888 - January 18, 2000), born in Kio, was Japan's oldest living man, and arguably the world's oldest man at the age of 111. A resident of Kawasaki in his later years, he was an academic and bibliographer by profession, and was remembered for starting an exchange program with the University of Michigan.