Yukiko Honda (Japanese: 本田幸子) was a Japanese supercentenarian whose age has been validated by LongeviQuest.
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BIOGRAPHY
Yukiko Honda was born in the Tamana District of Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan, on 15 March 1913. Her ancestors belonged to samurai families that governed the region and were affluent landowners with extensive land holdings. She was a member of the high school basketball team, but she faced physical weakness from childhood and overcame many illnesses that persisted until old age. Following her graduation from Kumamoto Prefectural Second High School, she enrolled in Meiji University’s Women’s Faculty. During her time in college, she focused on the study of law and successfully obtained a clerk’s license.
Around the age of 25, she married a man employed in the railroad industry, who was six years her senior. At the time, her husband was an amateur baseball player in the Kansai region and was well-known locally. The couple had four children, and there was a period when the family lived in Yonago City, Tottori Prefecture, and Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture, due to her husband’s job transfer.
When her children were young, she often planted tulips in the garden and played the piano for them—memories that her sons still cherish today.
Honda enjoyed writing tanka as a hobby after her children had grown up. She once applied for and was selected to contribute to Kadokawa Gakugei Bunko’s magazine. Her eldest son credits modern medicine for enabling her to lead a long life despite her inherently frail constitution. After her husband passed away, she lived independently from the age of 74 to 90, maintaining a routine centered around her love for reading. According to her eldest son, her sister lived to the age of 102.
While she resided in a nursing home in Okayama City, her children would occasionally bring her Akafuku, a traditional Japanese confection consisting of sweet red bean paste over soft rice cakes. She particularly enjoyed the red bean paste and ate only that part.
Yukiko Honda passed away in Okayama City, on 19 February 2026, at the age of 112 years, 341 days.
RECOGNITION
Her age was verified by Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare (MHLW), as well as Yumi Yamamoto, Jack Steer, and Ichirō Honda, and validated by LongeviQuest on 19 December 2023.
On 16 November 2024, she became the oldest known living person in Okayama Prefecture, following the death of Masako Soga (age 111) of Ibara City.
ATTRIBUTION
(All the information regarding Yukiko Honda’s biography was gathered through interviews conducted by LongeviQuest with her eldest son, Mr. Ichirō Honda.)
* Okayama City Press Release, October 2022
* “岡山県内最高齢の本田幸子さん（112）が死去” – KSBニュース, 24 February 2026
GALLERY
In the 1950s, with her husband and children (Source: Courtesy of her eldest son, Mr. Ichirō Honda.)
In the 1950s, with her sister and nieces. (Source: Courtesy of her eldest son, Mr. Ichirō Honda.)
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