{"id":8444,"date":"2011-04-20T03:04:38","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T03:04:38","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2025-10-15T13:36:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T13:36:56","slug":"world-s-oldest-man-turns-114-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=8444","title":{"rendered":"World’s oldest man turns 114 in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world’s oldest man, Japanese citizen Jiroemon Kimura, turned 114 on Tuesday, celebrating the day away from the public spotlight with his family near Kyoto. “It is a great honour, and words alone cannot describe my feelings,” Kimura told city officials in Kyotango, Kyoto prefecture, who congratulated him. “I take it as a sign from heaven and am deeply moved.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kimura said he had not heard about the massive earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan’s northeast coast on March 11, calling it a “horrendous event”. “As it’s a natural phenomenon, human beings can’t really do anything about it,” he added. Kimura was born on April 19, 1897 and worked at a post office for about 40 years before turning to farming after his retirement, continuing until the age of 90.<\/strong> He has seven children, of whom five are still alive, 14 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and 11 great-great-grandchildren.<\/p>\n

Kimura now spends most of the day in bed except when he eats three times a day, the city quoted Eiko Kimura, the wife of one of his grandchildren, as saying. He has a good appetite and is particularly fond of red bean cake and rice. According to the Los Angeles-based Gerontology Research Group, Kimura is the world’s oldest man since Walter Bruening, a retired railworker, died of natural causes last Thursday in the US state of Montana at the age of 114.<\/strong><\/p>\n

SOURCE<\/a>
\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The world’s oldest man, Japanese citizen Jiroemon Kimura, turned 114 on Tuesday, celebrating the day away from the public spotlight<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":71608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[2087,1],"tags":[2123],"class_list":["post-8444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle","category-news","tag-lifestyle"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldest man-150x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldest man-300x250.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldest man.jpg","large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldest man.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldest man.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldest man.jpg","colormag-highlighted-post":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldest man.jpg","colormag-featured-post-medium":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldest man-320x205.jpg","colormag-featured-post-small":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldest man-130x90.jpg","colormag-featured-image":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldest man.jpg","colormag-default-news":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldest man-150x150.jpg","colormag-featured-image-large":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldest man.jpg","colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldest man.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldest man.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldest man-285x267.jpg","colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldest man-320x198.jpg"},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Joshua","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/62ee23f8f40307578d1f284ecd823d77f32da8ea35541e7dbdafeb5da1a4e877?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"1","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"The world’s oldest man, Japanese citizen Jiroemon Kimura, turned 114 on Tuesday, celebrating the day away from the public spotlight","magazineBlocksPostCategories":["Lifestyle","News"],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":130,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":2,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldest man.jpg",320,267,false],"medium":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldest man-300x250.jpg",300,250,true],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/oldest man-150x150.jpg",150,150,true]},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Joshua","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1213"},"magazine_blocks_comment":1,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/62ee23f8f40307578d1f284ecd823d77f32da8ea35541e7dbdafeb5da1a4e877?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"Lifestyle<\/a> News<\/a>","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}