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Misao Okawa
〔 was a Japanese supercentenarian who was the world's oldest living person from the death of Japanese man Jiroemon Kimura on 12 June 2013 until her own death on 1 April 2015.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Jiroemon Kimura, Oldest Man in Recorded History, Dies at 116 )〕
Okawa is the verified oldest Japanese person ever, the oldest person ever born in Asia, and the fifth oldest verified person ever recorded. Okawa was the 30th person verified to have reached age 115, the tenth verified person to reach the age of 116 and the fifth verified person to reach the age of 117.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Born In 1898: World's Oldest Living Person Celebrates Birthday )〕
== Biography ==
Okawa was born on 5 March 1898, the fourth daughter of a draper in the Tenma district (present-day Kita-ku) of Osaka. From 1997, she lived at a nursing home in Higashisumiyoshi-ku, Osaka.〔 She married Yukio Okawa in 1919 and had three children (two daughters and one son), of whom her son, Hiroshi, and daughter Shizuyo survived her.〔 Her husband died on 20 June 1931. She had four grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.〔 She was able to walk until she was 110, when she began using a wheelchair to prevent falls. She could, however, propel herself using her wheelchair.〔
Okawa died at her nursing home residence in Higashisumiyoshi-ku, Osaka, Japan, at 6:58 am, on 1 April 2015〔〔 after suffering heart failure.〔Tanya Lewis, (), ''Live Science'', April 1, 2015. Retrieved April 1, 2015〕
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