Japan: World's oldest man Yasutaro Koide dies
He was aged 112 of chronic heart failure at a hospital in Nagoya area in Japan.
"Yasutaro Koide, a former tailor recognized by Guinness World Records as the oldest living man on earth, died at the age of 112 of chronic heart failure at a hospital in Nagoya, central Japan, in the early hours of Tuesday," Kyodo News reported quoting Koide's relatives.
He was born in March 1903 in Japan's Tsuruga city.
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