The world's oldest person is now 116-year-old Brazilian nun Inah Canabarro Lucas, who was born 16 days after Tomiko Itooka.

ASHIYA, Japan (WKRC) - The oldest person in the world, a Japanese woman, passed away at the age of 116. Tomiko Itooka was born in May of 1908, was married at 20, and took over her husband's textile factory during World War II.

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116.

The world’s oldest person, Tomiko Itooka, died the night of Dec. 29. She died from natural causes and lived to be 116 years and 220 days old.

World’s oldest person who climbed Japan’s Mount Ontake twice dies at 116 - Itooka, who loved bananas and a yogurt-flavored Japanese drink called Calpis, was born on 23 May 1908

Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka, who was believed to be the oldest person in the world, passed away at a nursing home in Japan's Ashiya at the age of 116, The New York Times reported.