Kane Tanaka

was a Japanese supercentenarian. She was the world's oldest verified living person from 22 July 2018 until her death on 19 April 2022.
She is the second-oldest verified person (behind Jeanne Calment) and the oldest verified Japanese and Asian person ever, after passing the record of Nabi Tajima in September 2020.
Biography.
Tanaka lived in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. She credited family, sleep and hope as her secrets for long age. She was married to Hideo Tanaka from 1922 until his death in 1993. They had five children.
She married Hideo Tanaka at age 19 and was in charge of an udon noodle shop when her husband and eldest son Nobuo were sent to fight in World War II. After the war, she and her husband became Christians and ran a rice shop together.
She lived through all five imperial reigns that make up modern day Japan, with the first, the Meiji era, having ended in 1912.
Tanaka said that she would like to live to the age of 120, saying her faith in God, family, sleep, hope, eating good food, and practicing mathematics has helped her live a long life. Her long life along with that of Jeanne Calment and Sarah Knauss has created the debate that the maximum lifespan for humans could be 115–125 years.
Tanaka was supposed to hold the Olympic torch at the 2020 Summer Olympics, but decided not to because of an increase in COVID-19 cases in Japan.
Tanaka died in a hospital in Fukuoka, on 19 April 2022, nine days after becoming the second oldest verified person ever. Her death was announced on 25 April. Her funeral was held on 29 April 2022.