Tokio Watanabe
Tokio Watanabe (渡部時雄; Watanabe Tokio; 12 December 1899 – 6 February 2010)[citation needed] was a Japanese farmer and supercentenarian[citation needed], who currently is unverified by the Gerontology Research Group.
Watanabe married Shakae, who passed away when he was 42 years old, at age 22 and had two sons (the youngest of whom died in the Pacific War[citation needed]) and six daughters. He worked in agriculture until age 95 and was at age 100 still able to mow the grass and take care of himself.[citation needed]
On 17 January 2010[citation needed], upon the death of Kiyotoshi Inoue[citation needed], Watanabe became the second oldest known living man in Japan behind Jiroemon Kimura and the third oldest known living man in the world,[citation needed] behind Kimura and Americanman Walter Breuning.[citation needed]
Watanabe died of pneumonia at a hospital in his hometown Kumakōgen, Ehime Prefecture at age 110 on 6 February 2010, just nine days before Tanekichi Onishi's 110th birthday, and was succeeded as Japan's second-oldest living man by Onishi.[citation needed] Watanabe was the last known living man born in 1899.[citation needed]
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