Japan: Nijiro Tokuda, the oldest man in the country, dies at 111
Japan: Nijiro Tokuda, the oldest man in the country, dies at 111
Tokuda, of Kagoshima in southern Japan, died Monday night at a hospital where he had been treated since April, Kagoshima City officialMasayuki Nagahama said.
The official said the city would not disclose the cause of death, the AP reports.
Japan's oldest person is a 113-year-old woman, Yone Minagawa of Fukuoka, also in southern Japan, who was born in January 1893, Health Ministry official Ken Hongo said.
Hongo could not immediately say who is now the nation's oldest man.
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