112-year-old Japanese certified as world’s oldest man

Nonaka said he enjoys watching sumo wrestling on TV and listening to music. His home is also a hot spring inn dating back more than a century that Nonaka used to run with his wife.

“Nonaka’s achievement is remarkable,” Guinness World Records’ editor-in-chief Craig Glenday said, adding, “he can teach us all an important lesson about the value of life and how to stretch the limits of human longevity”.

Koki Kurohata, Nonaka’s great-grandson said: “He has not been receiving nursing care at a facility and has a clear brain. He’s really amazing.”

His granddaughter Yuko said that her grandfather enjoys relaxing in the hot spring once a week and has a sweet tooth. Following the death of Jamaican Violet Brown aged 117 in September 2017, Nabi Tajima, a 117-year-old Japanese resident of Kagoshima Prefecture, was likely to be recognized by Guinness World Records as the world’s oldest living woman.

The VP Japan for Guinness World Records Erika Ogawa visited the record holder on April 10 in his hometown of Ashoro on the island of Hokkaido to present him with the certificate. Nonaka takes the title after Francisco Nuñez Olivera of Spain, who was 113-years-old, passed away in January.