Japan's oldest person, 115-year-old woman from Nara Prefecture, dies

Japan's oldest person, Shigeko Kagawa, a 115-year-old resident of Nara Prefecture, western Japan, died late last week, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said Monday.Fuyo Kishimoto, a 114-year-old woman in nearby Kyoto, is now the country's oldest person. The ministry said Kagawa died Thursday.Born in 1911, Kagawa graduated from a medical school in 1934 and worked for about three years in the obstetrics and gynecology and internal medicine departments at a hospital in Osaka, according to a local medical association.She opened her own clinic in Nara Prefecture in 1937. Kagawa continue…READ FULL ARTICLE