According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Yone Minagawa of Fukuchi, Japan is the world's oldest person at
age 114. She was born January 4, 1893:
At 114, Japanese woman 'really grateful' to be No. 1. She sounds like quite a lady. As it happens, the world's oldest man is also Japanese—Tomoji Tanabe, 111, born September 18, 1895.
