Thursday, February 27, 2020

Sad News - Chitetsu Watanabe, dead at 112

Less that two weeks after being named the oldest man in the world by Guinness World Records, Chitestu Watanabe died at his nursing home in Niigata Prefecture. He was born March 5, 1907, was married and the father of five children. 


The oldest man in Japan is now Issaku Tomoe of Aichi Prefecture, who is 110 years old.  It is not yet known if he is the world's oldest man.



5 comments:

Jeanie said...

I remember just seeing him on your blog. A live, long lived and I suspect, well lived.

Vireya said...

The oldest man now is a 111-yr-old in England.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/feb/26/britains-bob-weighton-becomes-oldest-man-in-the-world
He said, "I don’t really feel satisfied, because it means someone else has died. I just accept it as a fact..."

Julie said...

God bless x

kiwikid said...

That is a long long life.

Leonore Winterer said...

I think he was glad he made it to that 'oldest man alive' title...he looks so happy in the picture!