Nationality: Japan

Mina Kitagawa [Japanese: 北川みな] was a Japanese supercentenarian who was the third-oldest living person in Japan and the ninth-oldest living person in the world before her death. Her age was validated by the Gerontology Research...

Shin Matsushita [Japanese: 松下しん] was a Japanese supercentenarian whose age was validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). At the time of her death, she was the oldest known living person in Miyagi prefecture, and the...

Shimoe Akiyama [Japanese: 秋山シモエ] was a Japanese supercentenarian whose age was validated by the Gerontology Research Group (GRG). At the time of her death, she was the second-oldest living person in Japan (behind Kane Tanaka),...

Koto Ōkubo [Japanese: 大久保 琴] was a Japanese supercentenarian who, at the time of her death, was the oldest validated woman in the world and the second-oldest person in the world, behind Japanese man Jiroemon...

Shigeyo Nakachi [Japanese: 中地シゲヨ] (née Hiraishi) was a Japanese supercentenarian who, at the time of her death, was the second-oldest living person in Japan (behind Kane Tanaka) and the fifth-oldest validated person in the world...

Chiyono Hasegawa was a Japanese supercentenarian. Aged 115 years, 12 days at the time of her death, she was the oldest living validated person in Japan (since the death of Kama Chinen on 2 May 2010) and was also the oldest...

Nabi Tajima [Japanese: 田島ナビ] was a Japanese supercentenarian who was the oldest validated person in the world at the time of her death and remains the fifth-oldest validated person ever recorded after Jeanne Calment, Kane...

Tane Ikai (Japanese: 猪飼たね) was a Japanese supercentenarian, who held the title of the oldest person and woman ever from Japan and Asia until Misao Okawa surpassed her age on 28 August 2014.