List of supercentenarians from Asia

These are lists of Asian supercentenarians (people from Asia who have attained the age of at least 110 years). According to the Gerontology Research Group, as of January 2016 there have been over 300 verified supercentenarian from Asia, all of them living in Japan. The oldest verified Asian person ever was Misao Okawa of Japan, who died on 1 April 2015, aged 117 years 27 days.[1] As of 16 February 2016, there are 22 verified living supercentenarians in Asia.[1] The oldest verified living person in Asia is Nabi Tajima of Japan, born 4 August 1900, aged 115 years, 196 days.

The vast majority of verified Asian cases of supercentenarians come from Japan due to Japan has kept birth records for more than a century while other Asian countries have historically been less meticulous about keeping such records; China and India have many supercentenarians, but none are confirmed because the governments did not track births prior to the early 1900s.[2] There have been 5 emigrant supercentenarians from Asia who have been verified. The oldest ever emigrant from Asia was Lucy d'Abreu (1892-2005), born in India, who died in the United Kingdom aged 113 years 197 days.

Oldest supercentenarians from Asia top 100

All top 100 are from Japan.

Living Asian supercentenarians

All but one are from Japan.

Rank Name Sex Birth date Age as of 16 February 2016 Place of birth Place of residence
1 Nabi Tajima[1] F 4 August 1900 115 years, 196 days Kagoshima, Japan Kagoshima, Japan
2 Chiyo Miyako[1] F 2 May 1901 114 years, 290 days (unknown) Kanagawa, Japan
3 Toshie Yorimitsu[1] F 30 September 1901 114 years, 139 days Kōchi, Japan Okinawa, Japan
4 Matsuyo Kageyama[1] F 10 October 1901 114 years, 129 days (unknown) Kyoto, Japan
5 Mitsue Toyoda[1] F 15 February 1902 114 years, 1 day (unknown) Ōita, Japan
6 Yukie Hino[1] F 17 April 1902 113 years, 305 days (unknown) Niigata, Japan
7 Masa Iseri[1] F 19 September 1902 113 years, 150 days (unknown) Kumamoto, Japan
8 Kane Tanaka[1] F 2 January 1903 113 years, 45 days (unknown) Fukuoka, Japan
9 Iso Nakamura[1] F 23 April 1903 112 years, 299 days Ishikawa, Japan Ishikawa, Japan
10 Tae Ito[1] F 11 July 1903 112 years, 220 days (unknown) Iwate, Japan
11 Shizue Nagata[1][3] F 25 July 1903 112 years, 206 days (unknown) Kumamoto, Japan
12 Hatsuno Goto[1] F 1 September 1903 112 years, 168 days Niigata, Japan Tokyo, Japan
13 Tane Shimada[1] F 25 September 1903 112 years, 144 days (unknown) Saitama, Japan
14 Anonymous[1][4] F 12 January 1904 112 years, 35 days (unknown) Chiba, Japan
15 Mumeno Sakurai[1][5][6] F 7 February 1904 112 years, 9 days (unknown) Gunma, Japan
16 Kuma Kobayashi[1][7][8] F 8 February 1904 112 years, 8 days (unknown) Aichi, Japan
17 Tomoe Iwata[1] F 25 March 1904 111 years, 328 days (unknown) Iwate, Japan
18 Shin Matsushita[1] F 30 March 1904 111 years, 323 days (unknown) Miyagi, Japan
19 Nugi Ikeda[1] F 1 April 1904 111 years, 321 days Nagasaki, Japan Saga, Japan
20 Yoshiyo Bessho[1] F 1 April 1904 111 years, 321 days (unknown) Okayama, Japan
21 Take Tanaka[9] F 21 April 1904 111 years, 301 days (unknown) Osaka, Japan
22 Tsuya Hayashi[10] F 26 April 1904 111 years, 296 days (unknown) Toyama, Japan
23 Tane Yonekura[1] F 2 May 1904 111 years, 290 days (unknown) Kagoshima, Japan
24 Mumeno Shirai[1][11][12] F 19 May 1904 111 years, 273 days (unknown) Kagawa, Japan
25 Masamitsu Yoshida[13] M 30 May 1904 111 years, 262 days Tokyo, Japan Tokyo, Japan
26 Katsue Hiraishi[1] F 9 June 1904 111 years, 252 days {unknown) Tokushima, Japan
27 Tomo Sato[14] F 6 September 1904 111 years, 163 days (unknown) Iwate , Japan
28 Hisa Arai[15][16] F 10 September 1904 111 years, 159 days (unknown) Gifu, Japan
29 Tetsu Ishii[17] F 15 September 1904 111 years, 154 days (unknown) Aomori, Japan
30 Asaki Miyagi[18] M 15 November 1904 111 years, 93 days (unknown) Okinawa, Japan
31 Kuni Onose[19] F 31 December 1904 111 years, 47 days (unknown) Ibaraki, Japan
32 Shigeyo Nakachi[20] F 1 February 1905 111 years, 15 days (unknown) Saga, Japan
33 Etsu Nishiura[21][22] F 19 February 1905 110 years, 362 days (unknown) Osaka, Japan
34 Satoru Tomizawa[4] M 10 March 1905 110 years, 343 days (unknown) Chiba, Japan
35 Yasu Agu F 1 April 1905 110 years, 321 days (unknown) Kyoto, Japan
36 Teru Hatakeyama[23] F 20 July 1905[24] 110 years, 211 days (unknown) Hokkaidō, Japan
37 Masazou Nonaka[25] M 25 July 1905 110 years, 206 days Hokkaidō, Japan[26] Hokkaidō, Japan
38 Kikuno Yamamoto[27] F 27 July 1905[28] 110 years, 204 days (unknown) Hokkaidō, Japan
39 Tsukimi Kishi[29] F 31 August 1905 110 years, 169 days (unknown) Tochigi, Japan
40 Sahae Kawabata[30] F 3 September 1905 110 years, 166 days (unknown) Ehime, Japan
41 Toichi Sasaki[31] M 4 September 1905 110 years, 165 days (unknown) Miyagi, Japan
42 Mumenno Ito[32] F 7 October 1905 110 years, 132 days (unknown) Yamagata, Japan
43 Kiku Morita F 20 October 1905 110 years, 119 days (unknown) Kyoto, Japan
44 Kimi Asanuma[33] F 3 November 1905 110 years, 105 days (unknown) Tokyo, Japan
45 Mina Kitagawa[34] F 3 November 1905 110 years, 105 days (unknown) Shiga, Japan
46 Minoe Kageyama[35] F 5 November 1905[36] 110 years, 103 days (unknown) Miyazaki, Japan
47 Misao Ueki[34] F 7 November 1905 110 years, 101 days (unknown) Shiga, Japan
48 Tsuya Kameda[37] F 24 November 1905 110 years, 84 days (unknown) Mie, Japan
49 Zhou Youguang[38][39] M 13 January 1906[40] 110 years, 34 days Changzhou, Jiangsu, China Beijing, China

†^ denotes age at death, or, if living, age as of 16 February 2016

Asian emigrant supercentenarians

      Deceased       Living

Rank Name Sex Birth date Death date Age Country of birth Country of death
1 Lucy d'Abreu[41] F 24 May 1892 7 December 2005 113 years, 197 days India[a] Scotland
2 Ito Konno Kinase[41] F 31 December 1889 24 January 2003 113 years, 24 days Japan United States
3 Ethel Farrell[1] F 27 November 1902 20 December 2015 113 years, 23 days India[b] Australia (Victoria)
4 Tameko Shijo[1] F 1 January 1904 Living 112 years, 46 days Japan United States
5 Mabel Maloyan[1] F 26 December 1881 15 November 1992 110 years, 325 days Armenia[c] United States (California)

a^ d'Abreu was born in Dharwar, which was then part of the British Raj. It is now in India.
b^ Farrell was born in British Raj. It is now in India.
c^ Maloyan was born in Russian Empire. It is now in Armenia.

See also

References

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