Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died at the age of 116. Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly policies, said Itooka died on 29 December at a care home in Ashiya, Hyogo prefecture in central Japan. Itooka, who enjoyed bananas and a yogurt-flavored Japanese drink called Calpis, was born on 23 May 1908. She became the oldest person last year after the death of 117-year-old Maria Branyas, according to the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). When she was told she was at the top of the world supercentenarian
