Japanese Senior Yasutaro Koide Guinnessed Oldest Living Man
Yasutaro Koide of Nagoya was recognized by the Guinness World Records the world's oldest living man, August 20. He is 112, born in 1903, the year the first west-east transatlantic radio broadcast was made from the United States to England and Bing Crosby was born (d.1957)
Mr. Koide was a tailor when young and, asked how he had lived long to be 112, said, "Don't overdo things, leave it all to nature and eat what's offered". He has never been seriously ill, and the only ambulance service he had was at age 105 when he had heatstroke in the fields at work.
Mayor Kawamura of Nagoya paid a courtesy call on Mr. Koide the day the Guinness certificate was presented. Mayor Kawamura congratulated him on the occasion saying that he had long wanted to meet Mr. Koide. Mr. Koide told Mayor Kawamura he had also lived in Osaka but liked Nagoya lot better. The mayor was utterly pleased with his comment..
Mr. Koide has 7 children, 7 grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren and 1 great-great-grandchild.
Japan is known a nation of longevity and centenarians are plentiful - some 58,000 as of September 2014, according to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. The oldest Japanese man ever lived is Jiroemon Kimura, 116 years and 54 days, and the oldest Japanese woman ever lived is Misao Okawa, 117 years and 27 days.
Susannah Jones of New York is the world's oldest living woman at age 116, according to the Guinness World Records.
A British neurobiologist Collin Blackmore, 70, comments the upper limit of man's life to be 120 years and no medical, scientific accomplishments can break this barrier. Prof. Blackmore specialize in vision and the development of the brain and professor of neuroscience and philosophy in the School of Advanced Study, University of London.
