God bless her. Kane Tanaka, 117, the oldest woman in the history of Japan, loves Coke and America

Good for her for living to 117, but at that age, scheduling events half a year away is pretty optimistic.

Flagpole wrote:

Good for her for living to 117, but at that age, scheduling events half a year away is pretty optimistic.

She must be close to being the oldest verified person in history. The Frenchwoman who was claimed to be 122 (Jeanne Louise Calment) when she died turned out to be probably not so old.

Crazy to think she was a teenager during World War 1.

The brojos have the money. They can fly here over for 4th of July next year and she can visit Trump in the Whitehouse and go trekking in the wilderness of Montana and do the Route 66 in a 1970's Stingray Corvette

"wants to visit America" does not mean "loves America"

Definitely doesn’t love America. Probably is still bitter about Hiroshima and wants to “visit” America to come here and win WWII for them. Press declaring we won the war dont mean sh*t

The article actually doesn’t say a single word about America or wanting to visit it. Why are you making up fake news rojo? Doesn’t even say she likes coke

Banana Bread wrote:

The brojos have the money. They can fly here over for 4th of July next year and she can visit Trump in the Whitehouse and go trekking in the wilderness of Montana and do the Route 66 in a 1970's Stingray Corvette

Trump will not be in the White House in July of next year but okay.

Coevett wrote:

Flagpole wrote:

Good for her for living to 117, but at that age, scheduling events half a year away is pretty optimistic.

She must be close to being the oldest verified person in history. The Frenchwoman who was claimed to be 122 (Jeanne Louise Calment) when she died turned out to be probably not so old.

Crazy to think she was a teenager during World War 1.

Calment's identity was almost certainly assumed by her daughter. There is a good bit of evidence indicating this to be so, and her claimed age was so far away from the next nearest super centenarians, who tend to be clustered around 117, as to be statistically impossible. An American woman reached a fairly well verified 119, so the Japanese lady has to keep hanging in there for a bit. I'm pulling for her.

Viking21 wrote:

Calment's identity was almost certainly assumed by her daughter. There is a good bit of evidence indicating this to be so, and her claimed age was so far away from the next nearest super centenarians, who tend to be clustered around 117, as to be statistically impossible. An American woman reached a fairly well verified 119, so the Japanese lady has to keep hanging in there for a bit. I'm pulling for her.

I've read this claim about Calment, and as far as I can tell there is close to zero actual evidence that it happened, but a lot of speculation that it could have happened. As has been pointed out, Calment's claim is among the most validated among all super-centenarians. If hers is a lie then you can't trust anyone's.

There is a picture of Calment as a 70 year old, taken in 1945. If her daughter had assumed her identity, she'd have been 47 in the photo and it does not look like a photo of a 47 year old woman.

If Jeanne was actually Yvonne, you'd have to believe that a 36 year old woman started pretending to be her 58 year old mother and no one noticed.

I think it's more plausible that she was the Usain Bolt or Katie Ledecky of not dying. She was much, much, much better at failing to die than anyone else.

briswiss wrote:

The article actually doesn’t say a single word about America or wanting to visit it. Why are you making up fake news rojo? Doesn’t even say she likes coke

They put a coke bottle in her hand because its a promo for coca cola and Olympics.

There is no actual quote from her regarding coke, chocolate or America

Typical 3rd grade reporting (no, comprehension of another report) from so called journalists with Ivy league education.

No wonder you had Trump

Among many other oddities, she had all of her personal documents destroyed upon moving from her home. When Yvonne supposedly died, her husband immediately moved in with his mother in law and never remarried. She recounted memories of a childhood maid and nanny who should have been younger than her, but would have meshed with Yvonne's age. I could go on and on. Jeanne was not a one in 10 trillion statistical outlier. She was Yvonne.

I'll help them here, if they could have comprehended, here is the giveaway:

[quote]Kane Tanaka is seen drinking a bottle of coke following confirmation she had broken the record for the longest-lived Japanese person, on Sept. 25, 2020, at her care home in Higashi Ward in the city of Fukuoka, in this image provided by Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan Inc.[quote]

...and

[quote]Whenever she has her favorite(sic) snacks, which include coke and chocolate, she tells people she wants to go to America.[quote]

What 'people'?

The coke people when they put the bottle in her hand and gave her a chocolate, gosh...go to a nursing home and tell old people they can have those snacks if they say they want to go to any country you name.

Deigin and Zak raised some valid doubts initially about Jeanne but their points have been adequately addressed with further evidence including photographs of Jeanne from the supposed "missing" period of her life. The documentation for her living to the age of 122 is extremely good.

Zak has kept changing his explanation each time his suggestions are shown to be wrong but his ideas have been getting more and more outlandish and I think it has reached the point where they no longer need to be taken seriously.

Whoops I guess I skimmed over where it said she likes Coke and wants to go to America. You were right rojo

briswiss wrote:

Whoops I guess I skimmed over where it said she likes Coke and wants to go to America. You were right rojo

Lets's try again

, she tells people she wants to go to America.

"Would you like to come to America"?

"Huh, can you speak louder?"

"How about a soft drink and a choccie!!?"

Whenever she has her favorite(sic) snacks, which include coke and chocolate, .

"Yes, yes , why do you have to shout?"

rojo wrote:

I came across a great story on the oldest woman in the history of Japan, Kane Tanaka. They are hoping to have her in the Olympic torch relay in 2021.

The Mainichi wrote:

"Whenever she has her favorite snacks, which include coke and chocolate, she tells people she wants to go to America"

When I read that, I thought to myself, why doesn't someone make this happen? Let's fly this woman over for the trip of a lifetime.

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20201104/p2a/00m/0na/020000c

Jamin’s dream girl

uhhhhhh wrote:

Banana Bread wrote:

The brojos have the money. They can fly here over for 4th of July next year and she can visit Trump in the Whitehouse and go trekking in the wilderness of Montana and do the Route 66 in a 1970's Stingray Corvette

Trump will not be in the White House in July of next year but okay.

Whoosh

I am Sam wrote:

briswiss wrote:

The article actually doesn’t say a single word about America or wanting to visit it. Why are you making up fake news rojo? Doesn’t even say she likes coke

They put a coke bottle in her hand because its a promo for coca cola and Olympics.

There is no actual quote from her regarding coke, chocolate or America

Typical 3rd grade reporting (no, comprehension of another report) from so called journalists with Ivy league education.

No wonder you had Trump

That’s our Rojo. Dude is dense af

rojo wrote:

God Bless her...

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20201104/p2a/00m/0na/020000c

Which god?