By: Menna Seliem
CAIRO, Jan. 21 (SEE)- Masazo Nonaka, the oldest man in the world, has died at the age of 113 at his home "a hot spring inn" in north Japan.
According to his family, he has passed away in the early hours of Sunday while sleeping at home in Ashoro on Japan's northern main island of Hokkaido. His granddaughter Yuko Nonaka said he died a natural death.
In April 2018, the deceased was certified by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest man at 112 years and 259 days.
He was born on 25th July 1905, and grow up in a large family and succeeded his parents running a family inn which is now managed by Yuko.
She said "He didn't have any health problem ... he went peacefully and that's at least our consolation". He outlived all his seven siblings, his wife and three of their 5 children.
In September 2018, Japan had recorded 69.785 of centenarian population, nearly 90% of them were women, according to health ministry, Labor and Welfare.
The world's oldest living person is also Japanese, Kane Tanaka a 116 years old woman from Fukuoka on the southern main island of Kyushu
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