Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese engineer and surveyor (born 1895)

Tomoji Tanabe

Japanese supercentenarian (1895–2009)

Tomoji Tanabe was a Japanese supercentenarian and, at the time of his death at age 113, the oldest living man in the world for 2 years, 146 days. Tanabe became the oldest man in Japan following the death of Nijiro Tokuda, who was 111 at the time, on 12 June 2006. Upon the death…