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Kahoru Furuya
Kahoru Furuya
Furuya (aged 112) on 1 January 2021
Birth: 18 February 1908
Japan
Death: 25 December 2022
Izunokuni City, Shizuoka, Japan
Age: 114 years, 310 days
Country: JapanJPN
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Kahoru Furuya [Japanese: 古屋かほる] (18 February 1908 – 25 December 2022) was a Japanese supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG).

Biography[]

Kahoru Furuya was born in Japan on 18 February 1908. She had four children (three daughters and one son).

Furuya enjoyed growing vegetables in the fields over the age of 100, and she moved into a nursing home at the age of 108.

Having been asked about the secret to her longevity for a public relations magazine in Izunokuni, Furuya replied: "Eat breakfast every morning, eat fruit and yogurt every day, and do gymnastics."

Furuya suffered from heart disease in 2011 when she was 103, and underwent surgery to implant her pacemaker. She then underwent her first battery replacement surgery in 2015 and a second battery replacement surgery in March 2021 at the age of 113.

Furuya was reported as the oldest living person in Shizuoka Prefecture, following the death of 112-year-old Hatsue Tachikawa on 22 December 2019. As of 2021, she often sat in a wheelchair, but she could still stand and walk a little.

Furuya's age was verified by Kengo Hirai, Yu Li, Yumi Yamamoto, and MHLW, Japan, and validated by the GRG on 20 December 2021.

On 2 February 2022, Furuya became the oldest person to ever reside in Shizuoka, Japan, surpassing Yasu Akino's age of 113 years, 348 days.

In February 2022, around her 114th birthday, Furuya tested positive for COVID-19, but was later able to recover, making her one of the oldest known survivors of the disease.

Kahoru Furuya died from natural causes in Izunokuni City, Shizuoka, Japan at around 10 a.m. on 25 December 2022, at the age of 114 years, 310 days. At time of her death, she was the second-oldest validated living person in Japan (after Fusa Tatsumi), and the sixth-oldest living person in the world whose age is validated by the GRG (after Lucile Randon, Maria Branyas Morera, Tatsumi, Bessie Hendricks, and Edie Ceccarelli).

Following Furuya's death, then-112-year-old Masu Usui [Japanese: 臼井ます] (born 18 December 1910) of Oyama became the oldest known living person in Shizuoka Prefecture.

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