MANILA — The world’s second oldest woman, Fusa Tatsumi passed away Tuesday (12 Dec 2023) peacefully after eating her favorite meal.

Rachael Bunyan of Daily Mail reported that the world’s second oldest woman has died at the age of 116 at a nursing home in Japan.

Officials said, Fusa Tatsumi, who was Japan’s oldest person, passed away on Tuesday at the care facility in Osaka after eating her favorite meal of bean-paste jelly.

Born in 1907, Tatsumi raised three children with her husband, a farmer, in Osaka, local broadcaster MBS reported.

The world’s oldest woman, a French, Jeanne Calment, earlier died at the age of 122.

(JR AMIGO/ai/mnm)