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Fumi Hoshino
Fumi Hoshino
Fumi Hoshino on her 113th birthday in 2021.
Birth: 30 October 1908
Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan
Death: 23 August 2022
Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan
Age: 113 years, 297 days
Country: JapanJPN
Validated

Fumi Hoshino [Japanese: 星野冨美] (30 October 1908 – 23 August 2022) was a Japanese supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).

Biography[]

Early Life[]

Fumi Hoshino was born on 30 October 1908, as the eldest daughter of the chief priest of Zuikoji Temple in Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan. She had two younger brothers and one younger sister.

After graduating from elementary school, Hoshino entered a girls' high school (currently a middle and high school). In addition, after she graduated from girls' high school, she went to a teacher training school (currently the university's education department) and graduated.

Later Life[]

Hoshino worked as a home economics teacher at a girls' high school in Tokyo until she was 60 years old. She was unmarried and had no children. When she was 80 years old, she moved to a nursing home in Edogawa Ward and lived alone until then.

Hoshino was a heavy smoker and smoked until about the age of 95, but she had terminal lung cancer and was told by doctors that she had only six months to live, so she quit smoking. After that, she was naturally cured of her cancer.

Hoshino's personality was cheerful. She liked to make people laugh and often told jokes. Her favorite foods were raw tuna, kabayaki eel, and Oronamin C (a carbonated drink), which she ate and drank at the age of 113.

Death[]

Hoshino died from COVID-19 in Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan on 23 August 2022, at the age of 113 years, 297 days, making her the oldest known victim of the pandemic at the time of her death, until Bessie Hendricks of the United States died from the disease on 3 January 2023, at the age of 115 years, 57 days.

At the time of her death, Hoshino was the oldest known living person in Tokyo Prefecture, and the fifth-oldest validated living person in Japan, after Fusa Tatsumi, Kahoru Furuya, Tomiko Itooka, and Kimiko Ono. She had been anonymous up until her death. Her age was verified by Japan's MHLW, Mitsuo Hoshino, Yu Li, and Yumi Yamamoto, and validated by the GRG on 25 August 2022, two days after her death.

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