Kama Chinen

Kama Chinen
Birth:	10 May 1895 Okinawa, Japan
Death:	2 May 2010 Nanjo, Okinawa, Japan
Age:	114 years, 357 days
Country:	JPN
Validated

Kama Chinen [Japanese: 知念 カマ] (10 May 1895 – 2 May 2010) was a Japanese supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). She is currently the oldest validated person ever from Okinawa Prefecture.

Biography

Kama Chinen was born in Okinawa, Japan on 10 May 1895.

She became the oldest known living person in Okinawa after the death of Nahe Oshiro on 20 May 2006.

She was the oldest living person in the world from the death of Gertrude Baines on 11 September 2009 until her own death on 2 May 2010. She was the last known surviving validated person born in 1895, as well as the earliest-born person to live in the 2010s.

Kama Chinen died in Nanjo, Okinawa, Japan on 2 May 2010, at the age of 114 years, 357 days, just eight days short of her 115th birthday. At the time of her death, Chinen was the second-oldest validated person ever in Japan, behind only Tane Ikai, although in 2010 Shigechiyo Izumi and Kamato Hongo was still believed to be older following her death Eugenie Blanchard became the Worlds oldest living person.

External Links

• World's oldest person Kama Chinen dies in Japan Daily Telegraph, May 4, 2010

World's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (V • E)

Lucy Woodman • Nancy Merriman • Betsy Baker • Jennie Howell • Mathias Hansen Saether • Catherine Waller • Christina Karnebeek-Backs • Robert Early • Nettie Minick • Mary Kelly • James King • Narcissa Rickman • Tome Horigome • Marie Bernatkova • Haruno Shimada • Ada Roe • Kitty Harvey • Josefa Salas Mateo • Alice Stevenson • Ettie Crist • Laurence Entiope • Mito Umeta • Niwa Kawamoto • Alice Coles • Josefa Llovet • Eliza Underwood • Augustine Tessier • Nellie Spencer • Emma Wilson • Augusta Holtz • Mary McKinney • Anna Eliza Williams • Florence Knapp • Easter Wiggins • Jeanne Calment • Marie-Louise Meilleur • Sarah Knauss • Ella Miller • Marie Bremont • Maud Farris-Luse • Grace Clawson • Adelina Domingues • Mae Harrington • Yukichi Chuganji • Mitoyo Kawate • Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan • Maria Capovilla • Elizabeth Bolden • Emiliano Mercado del Toro • Emma Tillman • Yone Minagawa • Edna Parker • Maria de Jesus • Gertrude Baines • Kama Chinen • Eugenie Blanchard • Ana Nogueira de Luca • Maria Gomes Valentim • Besse Cooper • Dina Manfredini • Jiroemon Kimura • Misao Okawa • Gertrude Weaver • Jeralean Talley • Susannah Mushatt Jones • Emma Morano • Violet Brown • Nabi Tajima • Chiyo Miyako • Kane Tanaka • Lucile Randon • Maria Branyas Morera • Tomiko Itooka

World's Oldest Living Woman Titleholders (V • E)

Nancy Merriman • Betsy Baker • Jennie Howell • Catherine Waller • Christina Karnebeek-Backs • Marie Olsen • Mary Kelly • Elizabeth Kensley • Auguste Pahl • Hannah Smith • Yoshigiku Ito • Johanna Booysen • Marie Bernatkova • Haruno Shimada • Ada Roe • Josefa Salas Mateo • Alice Stevenson • Elizabeth Watkins • Mito Umeta • Niwa Kawamoto • Sophia DeMuth • Marie-Virginie Duhem • Eliza Underwood • Augustine Tessier • Nellie Spencer • Emma Wilson • Augusta Holtz • Mary McKinney • Anna Eliza Williams • Florence Knapp • Easter Wiggins • Jeanne Calment • Marie-Louise Meilleur • Sarah Knauss • Ella Miller • Marie Bremont • Maud Farris-Luse • Grace Clawson • Adelina Domingues • Mae Harrington • Mitoyo Kawate • Ramona Trinidad Iglesias-Jordan • Maria Capovilla • Elizabeth Bolden • Julie Winnefred Bertrand • Emma Tillman • Yone Minagawa • Edna Parker • Maria de Jesus • Gertrude Baines • Kama Chinen • Eugenie Blanchard • Maria Gomes Valentim • Besse Cooper • Dina Manfredini • Koto Okubo • Misao Okawa • Gertrude Weaver • Jeralean Talley • Susannah Mushatt Jones • Emma Morano • Violet Brown • Nabi Tajima • Chiyo Miyako • Kane Tanaka • Lucile Randon • Maria Branyas Morera • Tomiko Itooka

Japan's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (V • T • E)

Tome Yoshida • Tokusaburo Hatsukade • Haru Komai • Ishi Hayashi • Yoshigiku Ito • Tome Horigome • Haruno Shimada • Mito Umeta • Niwa Kawamoto • Isa Nakayama • Man Ichikawa • Koume Kabira • Masutaro Sato • Matsu Yoshikuni • Koharu Kodaira • Oto Michii • Toka Miyata • Momu Okuma • Ine Tsugawa • Seki Takehara • Waka Shirahama • Tane Ikai • Sue Utagawa • Suekiku Miyanaga • Asa Takii • Tase Matsunaga • Yasu Akino • Denzo Ishizaki • Kayo Fujii • Mie Ishiguro • Matsuno Oikawa • Yukichi Chuganji • Mitoyo Kawate • Ura Koyama • Yone Minagawa • Shitsu Nakano • Tsuneyo Toyonaga • Kaku Yamanaka • Kama Chinen • Chiyono Hasegawa • Jiroemon Kimura • Misao Okawa • Harumi Nakamura • Nabi Tajima • Chiyo Miyako • Kane Tanaka • Fusa Tatsumi • Tomiko Itooka

Japan's Oldest Living Woman Titleholders (V • E)

Sue Watanabe • Unknown • Tome Yoshida • Haru Komai • Ishi Hayashi • Yoshigiku Ito • Tome Horigome • Haruno Shimada • Mito Umeta • Niwa Kawamoto • Isa Nakayama • Man Ichikawa • Koume Kabira • Matsu Yoshikuni • Koharu Kodaira • Oto Michii • Toka Miyata • Momu Okuma • Ine Tsugawa • Seki Takehara • Waka Shirahama • Tane Ikai • Sue Utagawa • Suekiku Miyanaga • Asa Takii • Tase Matsunaga • Yasu Akino • Kayo Fujii • Mie Ishiguro • Matsuno Oikawa • Mitoyo Kawate • Ura Koyama • Yone Minagawa • Shitsu Nakano • Tsuneyo Toyonaga • Kaku Yamanaka • Kama Chinen • Chiyono Hasegawa • Koto Okubo • Misao Okawa • Anonymous (Tokyo) • Nabi Tajima • Chiyo Miyako • Kane Tanaka • Fusa Tatsumi • Tomiko Itooka