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Kane Tanaka was a Japanese supercentenarian who, until her death at the age of 119 years, 107 days, was the world's oldest verified living person, following the death of Chiyo Miyako on 22 July 2018. She is the oldest verified Japanese person and the second-oldest verified person ever, after Jeanne Calment.
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business · Japanese supercentenarian (1903–2022) · businessperson · salesperson · also Kane Tanaka, Tanaka Kane, Kane Ota, Tanaka
Born 2 January 1903 · Died 19 April 2022 · Q29441888
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Time to swing into action! Ok Pendulum, you swung his way now you'll swing-my way! I'll use my Timegazer magician and stargazer magician to set the Pendulum scale! I'm taking control of this Duel starting now ! I can summon monsters all from Level 2 to 7 all at the same time!
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“When did the circus came to town?(Yuya: It didn't. I'm your opponent.) Don't tell me you're the son of Yusho!? (Yuya:Yep! The one and only. So are you ready to get this show on a road? Or should I say, on a castle?)”
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“Time to swing into action! Ok Pendulum, you swung his way now you'll swing-my way! I'll use my Timegazer magician and stargazer magician to set the Pendulum scale! I'm taking control of this Duel starting now ! I can summon monsters all from Level 2 to 7 all at the same time!”
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“Sylvio's the name and I can get you inside LID with no problem, I hold a very high standard and my father is elected to be this town's next mayor.”
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“Yuki Judai. Though I indeed last to your cards, my soul itself is another matter. But, in any case. I have been defeated, but my true form is the darkness. I can easily be revived in this world!”
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KAKE.com: World's oldest person, Kane Tanaka, dies in Japan aged 119
Died 2022-04-19.
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Winston-Salem Journal: Kane Tanaka of Japan, world's oldest living person, turns 119
Tanaka died in a hospital in Fukuoka on 19 April 2022, shortly after being verified as the second-oldest person to have lived.
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“t want to risk spreading the virus to others in her nursing home The world”
Kane lived in a nursing home in Higashi-Ku, Fukuoka from September 2018, and she was reportedly still in good health on her 118th birthday.
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Tanaka was diagnosed with colorectal cancer and underwent surgery when she was 103 years old
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At the age of 90 after 71 years of marriage
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Kane's eldest daughter died shortly after birth and her second daughter died at the age of one in 1947, while her adoptive daughter died in 1945 at the age of 23 of an unspecified illness.
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While her adoptive daughter died in 1945 at the age of 23 of an unspecified illness
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With whom she had two sons and two daughters
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Kane married her cousin Hideo Tanaka in 1922, with whom she had two sons and two daughters.
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Kane's early childhood was during the last years of the Meiji period, which ended in 1912 when she was nine.
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Born 1903-01-02.
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Tanaka was born as Kane Ota (太田 カ子, Ōta Kane) on 2 January 1903 in the village of Wajiro (now part of Higashi-ku, Fukuoka), on the southern island of Kyushu, the third daughter and seventh child of Kumayoshi and Kuma Ota.
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Kane and her family said she was actually born on 26 December 1902 and that her parents delayed the process of filing the report for a week because they were not sure if she would survive as she was born prematurely.
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