Tane Ikai
- Full name: Tane Ikai (Japanese: 猪飼たね)
- Lifespan: 1879-01-18 – 1995-07-12
- Age: 116 years, 175 days
- Birthplace: Aichi Prefecture , Japan
- Last residence: Aichi Prefecture , Japan
- Application date: N/A
- Validation date: 2001-02-09
- Validation source: MHLW Japan/Robert Young
Biography
Tane Ikai was born in Aichi, Japan on 18 January 1879. She married at the age of 20 and had three sons and a daughter. She separated from her husband in 1917 at the age of 38.
On a typical day, Ikai would eat three very basic meals of rice porridge. In 1968, at the age of 89, she moved into a nursing home where she was to live for the next 20 years. She played an active role in activities at the home and enjoyed making pottery and sewing until suffering her first stroke in 1978 at the age of 99. In 1988, at the age of 109, Ikai suffered another stroke and was moved to a hospital, where she remained bedridden for the rest of her life. She died of kidney failure on 12 July 1995 as the oldest recorded Japanese person ever at the age of 116 years, 175 days (her record was broken by Misao Okawa in 2014).
Longevity Records
On 16 June 1992 she became the oldest living person in Japan after the death of Waka Shirahama aged of 114.
On 20 March 1993, she became the last survivor born in 1879 after the death of the Canadian woman Lillian Ross aged of 113.
On 14 April 1993, she surpassed the age of Shirahama to become oldest Japonese ever.
On 18 January 1994, she celebrated her 115th birthday becoming the first Japonese to reach this age and the seventh person in the history to do that.
On 7 May 1994, she became the second-oldest living person in the world (behind Jeanne Calment) after the death of the American woman Margaret Skeete aged of 115.
On 18 January 1995, she celebrated her 116th birthday becoming the first Japonese to reach this age and the fourth person in the history to do that (after Easter Wiggins in 1990 and Jeanne Calment and Delphia Welford in 1991).
On 24 February 1995, she surpassed the age of Easter Wiggins to become the third oldest person ever. She’s currently the 19th-oldest validated person of all-time.
On 9 May 1995 (2 months before her death), she became the last Japonese survivor of the 1870s and the last Japonese survivor born before 1884 after the death of Hide Ohira (born in 1880), aged of 114.
She died on 12 July 1995, at the age of 116 years and 175 days. At the of her death she was the second-oldest living person in the world (behind Calment, 120-years-old, who outlived her by 2 years). After her death Sue Utagawa became the oldest living person in Japan and Jeanne Calment from France became the last survivor born in the 1870s. For more 20 years, Ikai remained the oldest Japonese ever until Misao Okawa surpassed her age on 28 August 2014.
Validation
The supercentenarian case of Tane Ikai was verified by MHLW Japan, Tzen Wei Tseng and validated by the Gerontology Research Group on 23 November 2022.
Tane Ikai on her 116th birthday in 1995.
Tane Ikai at the age of 113, on 27 August 1992.
Tane Ikai at the age of 114, on 27 August 1993.
Tane Ikai on her 115th birthday in 1994.
Tane Ikai at the age of 115.