Fusa Tatsumi, the world’s second oldest woman, passed away at 116 on December 12, tasting her favorite meal in a care home in Kashiwara, Japan. An official in Osaka’s Kashiwara city announced that Tatsumi passed away on Tuesday at the age of 116 in a healthcare facility in Osaka. She was the longest-living person in Japan. After Kane Tanaka’s death at 119 last year, Japan’s oldest person changed. Guinness World Records confirmed Tanaka as the world’s oldest person in 2022. Fusa Tatsumi was the 27th person ever to reach the age of 116 and only the seventh Japanese person to achieve this milestone.
Osaka Governor Hirofumi Yoshimura expressed his sympathy on social media, remembering a party he attended in September to celebrate Tatsumi’s long life.
Born in 1907, Tatsumi, a farmer’s wife, raised three children in Osaka. According to MBS, she recently stayed in bed at the nursing home, where she greeted the staff. Reports say Tatsumi had no health issues, except breaking her thigh bone in a fall in her 70s.
Living in her family home until 106, Fusa stuck to a routine with balanced meals. She also liked gardening and learned the Japanese tea ceremony and flower arrangement after finishing elementary school. Her passion for gardening lasted until she moved to a nursing home at 106 years old. Even at the care home, she remained active, doing her makeup at 110. The care home shared her habits, including drinking a liter of water daily.
MBS and other media showed videos of her during her 116th birthday celebration in April. In that, she was in a wheelchair, mostly sleeping.
Tatsumi’s eldest son, 76-year-old Kanji, mentioned to local media that he thought his mother did great to reach that age after the supercentenarian’s death.
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