World's oldest man dies at the age of 112

The world's oldest man died at the age of 112 in a nursing home in Tokyo, officials reported Tuesday. Sakari Momoi, who was crowned the world's oldest man by Guinness World Records in August 2014 at the age of 111, died from kidney failure. Momoi was born on Feb. 5, 1903, and was a teacher and a high school principal in Japan.

Momoi's successor as the world's oldest man is reportedly another Japanese man, 112-year-old Yasutaro Koide, who was born a little over a month after Momoi. However, a woman still clenches the title for the oldest person on Earth. That honor goes to 116-year-old Susannah Mushatt Jones of Brooklyn, New York.

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