Japan’s Oldest Person Dies at Age 113

Japan’s oldest person was a woman named Tsuneyo Toyonaga who died on Friday. She died days after she was transferred from her nursing home to a close hospital because she had lost her appetite and wouldn’t eat. She had been in a nursing home for the past 12 years. She was born on May 21, 1984 and had 5 children and 10 grandchildren.

Another woman named Kaku Yamanaka is now Japan’s oldest person. She was born on Dec11, 1984 and lives in a nursing home in Aichi, central Japan.

The number of people in Japan that live more than 100 years old has nearly quadrupled in the past 10 years and the number is still increasing. Japan has one of the world’s longest average life spans. This fact is largely due to many people in Japan having a diet that is rich in fish and rice. Japanese women have an average life expectancy of 85.81 years and the men have an average of 79 years.

Court Orders Burial of Mummified Baby

In Concord, NH a judge ordered a man, named Charles Peavey, to bury his family heirloom, which is a mummified baby that has been passed down for generations through his family. Authorities took the mummy last year after the man’s niece mentioned it at a day care center.

Tests showed that the baby died of natural causes but they didn’t find that the baby was related to the family. The mummy won’t be given back to the Peavey family until they prove the mummy is related to them through DNA testing. The family says the mummy is the child of a great-great uncle. The mummy, named Baby John, had been placed on display on a bureau in the Peavey home. Relatives and friends would treat the mummy like a family member and give it cards during the holiday and a dried fish as a pet. If there is no relation found to the mummy, the baby is ordered to be buried.