Okagi Hayashi, Japan's Oldest Person, Dies at 115

   Tokyo, April 28 (Jiji Press)--The oldest person in Japan, Okagi Hayashi, died of heart failure on Saturday at a hospital in Toki, Gifu Prefecture, health ministry officials and others said Monday. She was 115.
   Born in September 1909, Hayashi became the oldest person in the country last December, when a woman living in Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, died at the age of 116.

(2025/04/28-17:49)