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Thursday 02 Apr 2015 - 12:06 Makkah mean time-13-6-1436  Misao Okawa (5 March 1898 - 1 April 2015) Google/image Tokyo (IINA) – Misao Okawa, the world's oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died at the age of 117.
Okawa, who was born on 5 March 1898, passed away Wednesday morning in Osaka, Japan, Tadahi Uchimura, a local official from the city told CNN.
She left behind three children, four grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
"She was a person with mild character, and loved to eat so much. Her favorite food was sushi and udon noodles," said Satoshi Yoshioka, an employee at the nursing home where Okawa had lived since 1997 told CNN.
"However, in the last 10 days she stopped eating. I think eating was her motivation to live, and when she lost it, she passed away," Yoshioka added.
According to Guinness World Records, the oldest person ever was the French woman Jeanne Louise Calment, who died in 1997 at the age of 122.
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