Miguel Michiro Shimazu

Miguel Michiro Shimazu
Birth:	24 December 1907 Niigata Prefecture, Japan
Death:	10 July 2016 Isla de la Juventud, Cuba
Age:	108 years, 199 days
Country:	JPNCUB
Centenarian

Miguel Michiro Shimazu [Japanese: 島津三一郎] (né Sanrichiro Shimazu Kumazukura; 24 December 1907 – 10 July 2016) was a Japanese-Cuban centenarian who was one of the oldest known living men in Cuba at the time of his death.

Biography

Miguel Michiro Shimazu was born in Niigata Prefecture, Japan on 24 December 1907. He moved to Isla de la Juventud, Cuba in the Spring of 1928, at the age of 20. He worked in Isla de Pinos with an uncle in Santa Barbara (now La Demajagua, Isla de la Juventud).

During the Second World War, he spent six years in the island's Presidio Modelo jail as a prisoner of war. He never married and not had children.

Miguel Michiro Shimazu died in the Nursing Home of Nueva Gerona, Isla de la Juventud, Cuba on 10 July 2016 at the age of 108 years, 199 days.

Gallery

Aged 105

Aged 108

References

• Last surviving Japanese man, Isle of Youth, Cuba Claire Boobbyer, 11 July 2013
• 最後の日本人移民１世、１０８歳で死去　キューバ Asahi, 14 July 2016 ^(Archived)
• La isla de los confinados El Caimán Barbudo, 15 April 2017
• – THE JAPANESE Presence on the Island of Cuba. Photos. <> LA PRESENCIA Japonesa en la Isla de Cuba. Fotos. TheCubanHistory, 19 February 2018
• Y como había anunciado aquí va la primera crónica. Una que escribí con mucho cariño y que tiene como protagonista al único de los confinados que aun en 2014 seguía vivo Mairyn Arteaga Díaz (Facebook), 3 November 2020