| Koto Okubo | |
 Koto Okubo at the age of 100.[1] | |
| Birth: | 24 December 1897 Tokyo, Japan |
| Death: | 12 January 2013 Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan |
| Age: | 115 years, 19 days |
| Country: |  JPN
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| Validated | |
Koto Okubo [Japanese: 大久保 琴] (24 December 1897 – 12 January 2013) was a Japanese supercentenarian who, at the time of her death, was the oldest validated woman in the world and the second-oldest person in the world, behind Japanese man Jiroemon Kimura.
Biography
Koto Okubo was born in Tokyo, Japan on 24 December 1897. She spent her last days in her nursing home in Kawasaki with the company of her son. She was the last surviving woman in the world born in 1897. [2]
Okubo was the oldest living woman in Japan since Chiyono Hasegawa's death on 2 December 2011, and the oldest living woman in the world since Dina Manfredini's death on 17 December 2012, just a week before her 115th birthday.
Koto Okubo died in Kawasaki, Kanagawa, Japan on 12 January 2013 at the age of 115 years, 19 days. She was survived by her son, and was succeeded as the world's oldest living woman by Misao Okawa.
References
- Koto Okubo, world's oldest woman, dies at 115 Fox News, 12 January 2013
| Japan's Oldest Living Woman Titleholders (V • E) |
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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 |