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Japan: World's oldest man Yasutaro Koide dies

Japan: World's oldest man Yasutaro Koide dies

| | 19 Jan 2016, 04:34 pm
Tokyo, Jan 19 (IBNS) The oldest living man on earth Yasutaro Koide died on Tuesday.

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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