| Waka Shirahama | |
 Shirahama at the age of 110. | |
| Birth: | 23 March 1878 Kagoshima, Japan |
| Death: | 16 June 1992 Miyazaki, Japan |
| Age: | 114 years, 85 days |
| Country: |  JPN
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| Validated | |
Waka Shirahama (23 March 1878 – 16 June 1992) was a Japanese supercentenarian who was the oldest living person in Japan at the time of her death. She is currently the oldest validated person ever from Miyazaki Prefecture.
Biography
Waka Shirahama lived in the city of Miyakonojo, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan, and worked by selling vegetables from a bicycle cart. She married a man called Shutaro, with whom she bore nine children, and was widowed in 1939.
Her secret of longevity was “hard work and moderation in eating”. Shirahama spent her later years eating a bowl of soft rice and a cup of sugared soybean soup both for breakfast and dinner, and a cup of honeyed milk and fruit for lunch. On her 113th birthday in 1991, Tatsuya Iwahashi, the mayor of her hometown, brought her a bouquet and 200,000 yen as a gift of congratulations from the city.
References
- Japan's oldest person marks 113th birthday Reno Gazette-Journal, 27 March 1991
| Japan's Oldest Living Person Titleholders (V • T • E) |
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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 |