The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, September 21st, 2003
Celebrating her sweet 116 in Japan
World's oldest woman says secret is no moping
By ERIC TALMADGE Associated Press
Sunday, September 21, 2003
Tokyo -- A Japanese woman believed to be the oldest person in the world turned 116 on Sept. 16.
Born in 1887, when Japan was still in the throes of its conversion from samurai rule, Kamato Hongo was recognized as the world's oldest living person by the Guinness World Records after an American woman - - Maude Farris-Luse -- died in March 2002 at the age of 115.
Hongo, whose husband died when she was 77, is famous throughout Japan for her habit of sl...
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