{"id":4007,"date":"2016-01-20T09:04:44","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T17:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/the-worlds-oldest-man-a-japanese-dies-at-age-112\/"},"modified":"2016-01-20T09:04:44","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T17:04:44","slug":"the-worlds-oldest-man-a-japanese-dies-at-age-112","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/the-worlds-oldest-man-a-japanese-dies-at-age-112\/","title":{"rendered":"The world’s oldest man, a Japanese, dies at age 112"},"content":{"rendered":"

TOKYO \u2014<\/strong> The world\u2019s oldest man, a Japanese, died Tuesday at the age of 112 after suffering chronic heart problems, officials said.<\/p>\n

Yasutaro Koide had said his secret to a long life was not to smoke, drink or overdo it.<\/p>\n

Koide, who was born on March 13, 1903, died two months short of his 113th birthday.<\/p>\n

In the year he was born, the Wright brothers made their historic first flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, and a modernizing Japan was embroiled in a dispute with Russia over Manchuria that would erupt into the Russo-Japanese War in early 1904.<\/p>\n

Koide (pronounced \u201cKo-ee-deh\u201d) worked as a tailor when he was younger. He was recognized by Guinness World Records as the world\u2019s oldest man last August.<\/p>\n

The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said he died at a hospital in Nagoya, central Japan, where he had been treated for heart problems.<\/p>\n

Japan\u2019s oldest man is now Masamitsu Yoshida, a 111-year-old Tokyo native who was born on May 30, 1904. It was not immediately known whether Yoshida is also the world\u2019s oldest male.<\/p>\n

Japan, a rapidly aging country, has more than 61,000 centenarians, according to the nation\u2019s family registration records. Nearly 90 percent are women.<\/p>\n

The world\u2019s oldest person is an American woman, 116-year-old Susannah Mushatt Jones of Brooklyn, New York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TOKYO \u2014 The world\u2019s oldest man, a Japanese, died Tuesday at the age of 112 after suffering chronic heart problems, officials said. Yasutaro Koide had said his secret to a long life was not to smoke, drink or overdo it. Koide, who was born on March 13, 1903, died two months short of his 113th […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":4008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[65],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-nation-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4007"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}