Yone Minagawa
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Yone Minagawa (born January 4, 1893 in Akaike, Fukuoka Prefecture), is the oldest person in Japan, at 113, and the fourth-oldest person in the world. She lives in Keijuen, a special nursing home in her native Akaike. After her husband died, she raised her five children by selling flowers and vegetables at a coal mine. She became the oldest living person in Japan when Ura Koyama died in April 2005.
She sometimes makes others laugh with lighthearted jokes. She loves festive occasions and attends birthday parties and other recreational events at the nursing home, staff said. She eats well every day at the cantina and reads newspapers and letters from her family.
