The world's oldest man welcomes age 114

Last week the world's oldest man celebrated his 114th birthday solemnly according to Japanese etiquette.

Mr. Jiroemon Kimura is currently the world's longest man.

That person is Jiroemon Kimura, who lives in Kyoto, the old capital of Japan and his family of daughter-in-law, both widowed and 82-year-old, and his grandson, who is also 57 years old. Di has 7 children, currently 5 live, 14 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and 11 little. She often eats rice with fried fish and red beans - these are typical Japanese dishes.

If in Japan, after Mr. Tomodzi Tanabe died in 2009 at the age of 113, Jiroemon Kimura will be the first person to be the "oldest man in Japan" .

As for the title of " Oldest Man on the Planet ", he has just reached half a month, after the American Walter Breuning, 1986, died April 15, 2011 in Montana State, when he was 114 years old (born first). Kimura tool more than 5 months). Since the coronation of Kimura had not been half a month before, the Guinness book had not been repaired yet, but the Guinness book publisher informed the world.

The title 'The second old man in the world ' also belongs to the Japanese: Mr. Tanekiti Onishi, 111 years old. And the "Oldest Woman in the World " - according to the Guinness Book - is an American, Bess Cooper, born in 1896, 115 years old this year.