Kamato Hongo

Kamato Hongo - 116 years, 45 days, Japan
Kamato Hongo was originally validated at 116 years of age. Her case was subsequently debunked and removed from the validation lists [29,30,48]. It is hard to understand why her claim was included in the 2020 statistical study [10] on the reasoning that “there is no consensus on her age”. Family records were observed to be inconsistent and it is now thought that she was a case of age inflation due to a teenage pregnancy. There are different opinions on her true age with gerontologists placing it in the range of 109 to 112 years.

Hongo died in 2003 and she is the only case to be invalidated who died after Jeanne Calment. Once again this demonstrates that full transparency in every validated case should be an essential requirement.