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August 6, 2024 at 8:50 AM. TOKYO (AP) — More than 120 people died of heatstroke in the Tokyo metropolitan area in July, when the nation's average temperature hit record highs and heat warnings ...
State flag of South Dakota Location of South Dakota on the U.S. map This is a list of prominent people who were born in or lived for a significant period in U.S. state of South Dakota. For a larger list by location, see People from South Dakota. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable ...
List of Japanese supercentenarians. Chitetsu Watanabe (1907–2020), died aged 112 years and 355 days; picture taken in Taiwan during his military service in 1944. Japanese supercentenarians are citizens, residents or emigrants from Japan who have attained or surpassed the age of 110 years. As of January 2015, the Gerontology Research Group ...
Sogen Kato 加藤 宗現 Born (1899-07-22) 22 July 1899 Died c. November 1978 (1978-11-00) (aged 79) Adachi, Tokyo, Japan Cause of death Claimed by relatives to be Sokushinbutsu ; undetermined according to official autopsy Nationality Japanese Sogen Kato (加藤 宗現, Katō Sōgen, 22 July 1899 – c. November 1978) was a Japanese man thought to have been Tokyo's oldest man until July 2010 ...
List of people executed in South Dakota. The following is a list of people executed by the U.S. state of South Dakota from 1877 to date. A total of 20 people have been executed in South Dakota since 1877. Prior to 1915, the sole method of execution was via hanging. South Dakota banned the death penalty in 1915, but it was reinstated in 1939.
Kodokushi (孤独死) or lonely death is a Japanese phenomenon of people dying alone and remaining undiscovered for a long period of time. [1] First described in the 1980s, [1] kodokushi has become an increasing problem in Japan, attributed to economic troubles and Japan's increasingly elderly population. [1][2] It is also known as koritsushi ...
Tomiko Itooka (born 23 May 1908) of Japan is the world's oldest living person whose age has been validated. [2] John Tinniswood (born 26 August 1912) of the United Kingdom is the world's oldest living man whose age has been validated. [2]
The number of elderly living in Japan's retirement or nursing homes also increased from around 75,000 in 1970 to more than 216,000 in 1987. But still, this group was a small portion of the total elderly population. People living alone or only with spouses constituted 32% of the 65-and-over group. Less than half of those responding to a ...