Tane Ikai

Tane Ikai
Birth:	18 January 1879 Aichi, Japan
Death:	12 July 1995 Aichi, Japan
Age:	116 years, 175 days
Country:	JPN
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Tane Ikai (18 January 1879 – 12 July 1995) was a Japanese supercentenarian, who held the title of the oldest person and woman ever from Japan and Asia until Misao Okawa surpassed her age on 28 August 2014.

Ikai is the first of only five Asians to reach 116, the others being Nabi Tajima, Chiyo Miyako, Jiroemon Kimura and Misao Okawa, all of whom reached it around 20 years after Ikai. She never held the title of oldest living person as Jeanne Calment (1875–1997) was still alive when she died. She is the third oldest Japanese person ever, and the 11th-oldest person ever. She married at the age of 20 and had three sons and a daughter. She separated from her husband at age 38 in 1917.

In 1988, at the age of 109, she suffered a stroke and was moved to a hospital, where she remained bedridden for the rest of her life. She died of kidney failure on 12 July 1995 as the oldest recorded Japanese person at the age of 116 years, 175 days (her record was broken by Misao Okawa in 2014).  

References

• Gerontology Research Group
• Burlington Times News, June 16, 1992
• Syracuse Post Standard, September 9, 1992
• Medicine Hat News, January 19, 1993
• European Stars And Stripes, September 8, 1993
• European Stars And Stripes, January 19, 1994
• Daily Globe, July 12, 1995