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- Japanese Misao Okawa, the world's oldest woman, eats her birthday
cake as she celebrates her 116th birthday in Osaka, western Japan, in
this photo taken by Kyodo March 5, 2014.
April 01, 2015 7:54 AM
TOKYO— The world's oldest person, a Japanese woman, died Wednesday, a few weeks after celebrating her 117th birthday.Misao Okawa died of heart failure and stopped breathing as relatives and
nursing home workers stood by her side and praised her for achieving a
long, healthy life, said Tomohiro Okada, an official at her Osaka
nursing home. "She went so peacefully, as if she had just fallen asleep,'' Okada said. "We miss her a lot.''Continue here...
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