Kane Tanaka, who was born Jan. 2, 1903, was the second oldest person ever recorded.
Tanaka’s family said in a tweet earlier this month that she had been frequently sick recently and “in and out of hospital.”
She twice survived cancer and lived through a multitude of historical events, surviving two world wars and the 1918 Spanish flu — as well as the COVID-19 pandemic. The plan had been that she would take the flame as it passed through Shime, in her home prefecture of Fukuoka, but ultimately she did not participate, because of concerns about COVID-19.
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