Tomoji Tanabe

Tomoji Tanabe was a Japanese supercentenarian and, at the time of his death at age 113, the oldest living man in the world for 2 years, 146 days. Tanabe became the oldest man in Japan following the death of Nijiro Tokuda, who was 111 at the time, on 12 June 2006. Upon the death of 115-year-old Emiliano Mercado del Toro on 24 January 2007, Tanabe assumed the title of the man with the oldest validated date of birth in the world. Tanabe was the seventh-oldest validated person in the world and the third-oldest in Japan. Tanabe was also the oldest living man in Japan before Jiroemon Kimura. ^{Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese super-centenarian (d. 2009)}

18 September 1895

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