TOKYO, Aug 27 (NNN-BERNAMA-SPUTNIK) — Motoi Fukunishi, who was the oldest man in Japan, has died at the age of 110 years, Sputnik news agency reported according to local media on Thursday.
According to the NHK broadcaster, Fukunishi died in a hospital in the city of Shimotsuma on Aug 22.
He was born in this city on March 25, 1910, then worked there as a teacher and later as a director of a preschool.
After the death of Fukunishi, Mikizo Ueda from the city of Nara, also 110, has become the oldest man in the country.
He was born on May 11, 1910.
