BIOGRAPHY

Kizu was born in Japan on 5 February 1908. On 6 December 2019, aged 111, she became Chiba Prefecture’s oldest resident following the death of 113-year-old Motome Hirata.

Kizu died in Katsuura, Chiba, on 13 October 2020 at the age of 112 years, 251 days. She was succeeded as the oldest living person in the prefecture by a 111-year-old anonymous woman who lived in Tateyama.

RECOGNITION

Kizu’s age was verified by Bogdan Solyanikov, Yu Li, Yumi Yamamoto, and Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare (MHLW), and validated by LongeviQuest with a retroactive date of 25 November 2021.

ATTRIBUTION

• Katsuura City Statistics

• 広報かつうら　October 16, 2020 issue　Katsuura Topics「明治生まれ112歳　木津いねさん　県内最高齢に」

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