Men Aged 115 Years, Oldest Person in the World

                            

TOKYO, KOMPAS.com - Kyotango Mayor, Yasushi Nakayama, held a welcome ceremony of one of the city was declared to be the oldest in the world.

Jiroemon Kimura, aged 115 years, received the title after an American woman with over 115 years of age died on Monday.

AP news agency reported on Tuesday (18/12/2012), Nakayama, Mayor Kyotango, a city not far from the old city of Kyoto, the oldest human status ensures that carried Kimura on Tuesday. He said, Kimura as one of the pride of the city.

Kimura was born on 19 April 1897, 15 days means it's easier than Dina Manfredini, U.S. women who held the title the oldest man ever.

Manfredini died in Iowa, USA, Monday, after he had held the title of oldest man just less than two weeks from the oldest human predicates, carried from the previous holder who also had died.

Kimura, a retired postal worker, has 14 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren, and 13 great-grandchildren. He lived with his family one of his sons. Kimura family declined to comment on the title of the oldest man is out of respect for the family is still grieving Manfredini.