111-year-old from Japan recognized as oldest man
This picture taken on September 13, 2013 shows a 111-year-old Japanese man Sakari Momoi calling on the phone at a hospital in Tokyo. Momoi became the world’s oldest man as former oldest man Alexander Imich of the US died in New York on June 8.
TOKYO — A 111-year-old retired educator from Japan who enjoys poetry has been recognized as the world’s oldest living man.
Sakari Momoi received a certificate from Guinness World Records on Wednesday. He succeeds Alexander Imich of New York, who died in April at the age of 111 years, 164 days.
The world’s oldest living person is also Japanese: Misao Okawa, a 116-year-old woman from Osaka.
Momoi was born February 5, 1903, in Fukushima prefecture, where he became a teacher. He later moved to the city of Saitama, north of Tokyo, and served as a high school principal there until retirement.
Momoi says he enjoys reading books, especially Chinese poetry. He has five children and now lives at a nursing home in Tokyo.
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