World’s Oldest Man Turns 112

Tomoji Tanabe, who became the oldest man alive when Emiliano Mercado Del Toro died at 115, celebrated his 112th birthday today.

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The Miyakanojo City mayor presented him with a bouquet of flowers at his home. When asked how long he wanted to live, Tanabe replied, “Indefinitely. I don’t want to die”.

Tanabe lives with his fifth son Motoori, 67, and Motoori’s wife Fujiko, 60. Tanabe keeps a diary, reads the newspaper in detail everyday, and lives without any major assistance or care from other people apart from getting a little help when he needs to bathe, according to his family.

With Tanabe’s very healthy lifestyle, never having had an alcoholic drink, and Japan having the longest average life expectancy, infinity might not be so out of grasp for this young elderly man.

Here is a video of the Mayor visiting Tanabe before his birthday:

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By Sun Tzu on 18-09-2007

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Comments (8)

  1. Comment by darkwing duck

    September 18th, 2007 at 4:50 pm

    father time.

  2. Comment by decypher

    September 18th, 2007 at 5:30 pm

    now THAT’s old.

  3. Comment by redstormpopcorn

    September 20th, 2007 at 3:01 pm

    And he looks so happy about it! :V

  4. Comment by Lily

    October 8th, 2007 at 2:09 pm

    I love the look on his face.

  5. Comment by anonymousgirl

    October 9th, 2007 at 4:47 pm

    that’s even older than our school that just had its centennial celebration x_x

  6. Comment by jay

    October 21st, 2007 at 12:59 am

    now thats old

  7. Comment by ko

    May 18th, 2008 at 11:16 am

    awww hes really old!!^^

  8. Comment by aina

    February 5th, 2009 at 6:34 pm

    WOW :)
    and he still wanna lives, cool ;)

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