A Japanese woman certified the world`s oldest person has died at the age of 119 years and 107 days on April 19, 2022. She is the oldest verified Japanese person and the second-oldest verified person ever, after Jeanne Calment. Kane Tanaka was born on Jan 2, 1903, in the southwestern Fukuoka region of Japan, the same year the Wright brothers flew for the first time and Marie Curie became the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.