World’s oldest man is dead, dies at 112 in Japan – Guinness World Records......SEE PHOTO

Firstclass newsline learnt that Sakari Momoi, certified as world
oldest living male by Guinness World Records, died on Sunday, July 5
in Japan, an official said at Saitama City, North of Tokyo, where he
had lived for many years.
Saitama city officials said the super-centenarian was recognised as
the world's oldest male at the age of 111 in 2015. He died of kidney
failure in a care home in Tokyo.
Sakari Momoi
The officials said that Momoi, a former high school principal who was
born on Feb. 5, 1903, had received a certificate from Guinness World
Records confirming the achievement in 2015.
He was born in Minamisoma, Fukushima, an area badly hit by the deadly
9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami in 2011.
According to U.S.-based Gerontology Research Group, the title of the
world's oldest living male was now passed to Japan's Yasutaro Koide,
also 112 years old and just over a month younger than Momoi.
The research group said he was born on March 13, 1903.
The world's oldest living person recognised by Guinness World Records
was Susannah Mushatt Jones, a resident of the New York, who turned 116
on Monday.
Born on July 6, 1899, Ms Jones became the record holder at the age of
115 years and 346 days, as of June 17, 2015. (dpa/NAN)
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