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Jiroemon Kimura (Japanese: 木村 次郎右衛門 Kimura Jirōemon, born 19 April 1897) is a Japanese supercentenarian who, at the age of &10000000000000115000000115 years, &1000000000000006800000068 days, is the world's oldest living man, since the death of Walter Breuning on 14 April 2011. Being 113 years 360 days at the succession, Kimura is the oldest man ever to gain the title of oldest living man. He is the oldest living person in Japan and in Asia since the death of Chiyono Hasegawa on 2 December 2011, and the last living person in Asia born in 1897. Kimura is the first man to be Japan's oldest living person since Denzo Ishizaki, who held the title in the spring of 1999. Kimura has been the oldest living man in Japan since the death of Tomoji Tanabe on 19 June 2009, and the oldest Japanese and Asian man ever since surpassing Yukichi Chuganji on 26 October 2011. On 2 May 2012, Kimura surpassed Chiyono Hasegawa as the oldest Asian person ever to have lived in three centuries. He is one of only three men verified to have reached age 115 - and the first Asian man to have done so.
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