| Mikizo Ueda | |
 Ueda at the age of 109. | |
| Birth: | 11 May 1910 Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan |
| Death: | 9 September 2022 Nara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan |
| Age: | 112 years, 121 days |
| Country: |  JPN
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| Validated | |
Mikizo Ueda [Japanese: 上田幹藏] (11 May 1910 – 9 September 2022) was a Japanese supercentenarian whose age is validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). He had been the oldest known living man in Japan since the death of Motoi Fukunishi on 22 August 2020, as well as the oldest known living veteran of World War II since the death of Mollie Walker on 22 January 2022, until his death.
Biography[]
Mikizo Ueda was born in Kyoto City, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan on 11 May 1910. He was the only son of a textile worker.
Ueda worked for the Wakayama Prefectural Office. He served in the Japanese Navy during the Second World War, and he also witnessed the Hiroshima bombing.
In September 2017, Ueda was reported as the oldest known living man in Nara Prefecture. Then in May 2020, he celebrated his 110th birthday and became a supercentenarian.
On 22 August 2020, Ueda became the oldest known living man in Japan, following the death of Motoi Fukunishi.
Ueda's age was verified by MHLW Japan, as well as Yumi Yamamoto, and validated by the GRG on 6 March 2021.
On 17 April 2021, Ueda surpassed the age of Tessaku Tominaga, and became the oldest known man ever to have lived in Nara Prefecture.
Following the death of Mollie Walker on 22 January 2022, Ueda became the oldest known living veteran of World War II.
In September 2022, Ueda was reported as the oldest known living person in Nara Prefecture.
Mikizo Ueda died in Nara City, Nara Prefecture, Japan on 9 September 2022 at the age of 112 years, 121 days. He is currently the second-oldest known man ever born in Kyoto Prefecture (behind Jiroemon Kimura), the first known Japanese man to reach the ages of 111 and 112 since the death of Chitetsu Watanabe on 23 Febuary 2020, and was the last known surviving Japanese man born in 1910 since Kozaburo Nojima went to limbo on 1 Febuary 2021. He was also among the last known surviving Japanese men to have been born during the Meiji era.
At the time of his death, he was the fourth-oldest known living man in the world, behind Juan Vicente Perez Mora, Eusebio Quintero Lopez, and Efrain Antonio Rios Garcia.
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References[]
- 2021 validations Gerontology Research Group
- 県内の100歳以上979人 - 女性111歳、男性107歳／最高齢 Nara News Paper, 16 September 2017
- 元気の秘密は対応力 県内男性最高齢１０９歳・上田さん、副知事が訪問 ／奈良 Mainichi Shimbun, 15 September 2019
- City statistics Nara City, May 2020
- City statistics Nara City, 1 May 2021
- City statistics Nara City, 1 July 2021
- At the age of 111 Instagram Post, 14 September 2021
- 広島でキノコ雲見た 男性国内最高齢111歳の上田さん「まだ生きられる気がする」 Mainichi Shimbun, 28 September 2021
- 令和4年度「老人の日・高齢者保健福祉月間」運動の実施について Nara Prefecture, 1 September 2022
- 国内男性最高齢１１２歳 奈良市の上田幹蔵さんが亡くなる 今月９日 Fnn, 13 September 2022
- 男性の国内最高齢112歳 奈良市の上田幹蔵さん死去 News Infoseek, 13 September 2022
- Japan’s oldest man dies at 112 years old The Japan News, 13 September 2022
- Japan's oldest man dies in Nara at 112 Xinhua News English, 13 September 2022
| Japan's Oldest Living Man Titleholders (V • E) |
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Shizuo Jinjiang • Kokuzo Iwate • Eisaku Takada • Hisaharu Arai • Chojiro Goto • Yozotaro Yoshikawa • Masutaro Sato • Takataro Hiragushi • Mataichi Ono • Shotaro Tanaka • Rinzo Shimizu • Koji Onishi • Inasaku Abe • Mokotaru Osada • Eiju Tsuru • Kiichi Fujiwara • Nisaburo Matsuyama • Shimetaro Hara • Gihei Oka • Gengan Tonaki • Denzo Ishizaki • Sadayoshi Tanabe • Yukichi Chuganji • Kameni Nakamura • Minsho Ozawa • Totaro Murakami • Kohachi Shigetaka • Nijiro Tokuda • Tomoji Tanabe • Jiroemon Kimura • Jokichi Ikarashi • Sakari Momoi • Yasutaro Koide • Masamitsu Yoshida • Masazo Nonaka • Chitetsu Watanabe • Issaku Tomoe • Shojiro Shirai • Motoi Fukunishi • Mikizo Ueda • Shigeru Nakamura • Gisaburo Sonobe • Tomisaburo Wakui • Anonymous • Kiyotaka Mizuno |