World's oldest person, Japan's Nabi Tajima, dies at 117

Nabi Tajima, a Japanese woman who had been the world's oldest person, died Saturday due to advanced age at a hospital in southwestern Japan, local officials said. She was 117.Born in 1900, Tajima, a resident of Kikai Island in Kagoshima Prefecture, raised seven sons and two daughters and had more than 140 descendants.She had been spending most of her time in bed recent years at a nursing home and was hospitalized about a month ago."She passed away as if falling asleep. As she had been a hard worker, I want to tell her 'rest well,'" said Tajima's 65-year-old grandson Hiroyuki.U.S.-based Gero…READ FULL ARTICLE