TOKYO: Sakari Momoi, a 111-year-old Japanese citizen, was officially recognised in Tokyo as the oldest man in the world by the Guinness World Records award committee. Momoi bags the title after the death in early June of previous record holder, US citizen Alexander Imich, who was just one day older than the Japanese, the committee said in a statement.
Momoi was presented a certificate of his record at an event organised in the Tokyo care home where he lives, attended by family, friends, local authorities and the media.
“I want to live for two more years,” said Momoi, who received the certificate sitting on a wheelchair and dressed in a black suit, white shirt and silver tie. Born on February 5, 1903, in Minamisoma in the Fukushima prefecture of central Japan, Momoi is “in good health” and eats three times a day, a spokesperson of the Saitama prefecture where he lives told the Kyodo news agency.
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