Shigechiyo izumi biography channel

Sailor Haumea @ Dec 8 , PM wrote: Firstly, I'm a she.
Secondly, we only know the name of Izumi's father: Katsuzumi. I have been unable to find his mother's name. If you go to the first page of this thread, a doctor wrote a book in German, mentioning that Izumi was born August 20, , and his foster parents changed his birthday to a "luck day", in this case June Just the fact Izumi's biological parents weren't alive in blows a hole in the "necronym hypothesis". His wife's name was Miya, and her death certificate from says she was would support her being born in or In addition, the elder Izumi was alive in , as the GWR mentions that he was excused from service in , aged From the Japanese Wikipedia article on him we learn he took a medical exam in , and was in the military for three years, from to His wife's death certificate says they had been married 52 years, meaning they married in His article also mentions he and his wife honeymooned in Okinawa in

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Shigechiyo Izumi

Age

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Claimant

Shigechiyo Izumi[Japanese: 泉重千代] (29 June/20 August ?/? – 21 February ) was a Japanese supercentenarian claimant who, at the time of his death, was erroneously thought to have been the world's oldest living individ from 16 November to 21 February , and also as the oldest person ever recorded.

Biography[]

Shigechiyo Izumi claimed to have been born on 29 June on the Island of Isen, in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. Izumi was orphaned at six months old and adopted by Katsuzumi Izumi in February He was recorded to have been six years old in in the Japanese National Census at the time, which was his claimed age was originally validated.

Izumi began his career when he was seven, working at a sugar mill. Izumi and his wife Miya had a child born in (Miya was already 59, which made his claim dubious). Miya died in , when she was 90 years old, and Izumi lived the rest of his life as a widower.

Izumi enjoyed Shōchū, and smoked it

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JAPAN supercentenarian data

• Full name: Gengan Tonaki [Japanese: 渡名喜元完]
• Lifespan:  &#;
• Age: years, 86 days
• Birthplace:  Ibaru, Sashiki, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
• Last residence: Okinawa , Okinawa Prefecture, Japan
• Application date: N/A
• Validation date: 
• Validation source: Robert Young

Biography

Early Life

Gengan Tonaki was born in Ibaru, Sashiki, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan to a farming family; he claimed to be descended from the Sho royal family. He was the second-oldest and only boy out of seven siblings; one of his sisters, who was eight years his junior, was still alive at the time of his death. Tonaki attended primary school for four years, and recalled, &#;I was a rambunctious boy and liked to fight with other boys.&#;

In , to escape the Russo-Japanese War, Tonaki moved to Hawaii and worked on a plantation. He returned to Okinawa in with three treasures: a pocket watch, bicycle, and torch. Tonaki married a woman cal