List of Japanese supercentenarians

Japanese supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from Japan who have attained or surpassed the age of 110 years. As of January 2015, the Gerontology Research Group (GRG) had validated the longevity claims of 263 Japanese supercentenarians, most of whom are women. As of 22 May 2024, the oldest known living Japanese person is Tomiko Itooka, aged 115 years, 365 days. The oldest verified Japanese and Asian person ever is Kane Tanaka (1903–2022), who lived to the age of 119 years and 107 days, making her the second oldest validated person ever as well. Japan was also home to the world's oldest man ever, Jiroemon Kimura (1897–2013), who lived to the age of 116 years and 54 days.

20 November 1896

Born on the same birth date (20 November 1896): Carl Mayer

Born on the same birth day (20 November): Denis Zakaria • Gregor Urbas • Heinrich Schmidtgal • Jeremy Jordan (actor, born 1984) • Josaphata Hordashevska • José Figueroa Alcorta • Karl von Frisch • Kenjiro Shinozuka • Koudai Tsukakoshi • Margherita of Savoy • NaDa • Philipp Schmitt • Richard Masur • Richmond Landon • Shalini Ajith • Stéphane Houdet • Takeshi Kusao • Terry Lovejoy • Victor D'Hondt • Özer Hurmacı • Živko Budimir

Born in the same month (November 1896): Albertus Soegijapranata • Bucky Harris • Carl Mayer • Carlos Castañeda (historian) • Carlos P. Garcia • Dawn Powell • Edmund Blunden • Erika Abels d'Albert • Esdras Minville • Gustaf Tenggren • Jimmy Dykes • Joan Lindsay • Klement Gottwald • Lawrence Tibbett • Leonard Lord • Lev Vygotsky • Lilia Skala • Marie Prevost • Oswald Mosley • Salim Ali • Shirley Graham Du Bois • Tsunenohana Kan'ichi • Virgil Thomson