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Meet the world's oldest living man

Meet the world's oldest living man

Guinness World Records named Chitetsu Watanabe from Niigata, Japan, the oldest living male in the world, at 112 Years 344 days, on 12 February 2020.
Guinness World RecordsTokyo, Japan — A Japanese man with a sweet tooth who believes in smiles has become the world's oldest male at 112 years and 344 days old, according to Guinness World Records.
The oldest living person is also Japanese, Kane Tanaka, a 117-year-old woman.
Watanabe graduated from agricultural school and then moved to Taiwan to work at Dai-Nippon Meiji Sugar on sugar cane plantation contracts.
After the end of World War II, Watanabe returned to Niigata and worked for the prefectural government until retirement.