NAGOYA (Kyodo) Kaku Yamanaka, recognized as Japan's oldest person, died of natural causes at a hospital in Yatomi, Aichi Prefecture, on Saturday, nursing-care facility officials said. She was 113. Read the full story . . . ...full story at Japan Times
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