Talk:Misao Okawa/@comment-30591055-20200216094437/@comment-30591055-20200217173536

It's very unlikely to live to that great age, over 117 years. Therefore I think that claimed age may be disputable. Almost all other Japanese supercentenarians have lived to an age around 114 years, so living to age 117 is not likely for a Japanese person.

Nabi Tajima, claimed to be born in 1900, has been disputed due to a hypothesis that her birth date may have been one or two years later than she claimed. Tajima was from the Okinawa Islands which were bombed during World War II. Okawa's home town, Osaka, was also bombed.

Is it not possible for Okawa to have been some year younger? Perhaps Okawa was born in 1899 rather than 1898? In that case, she would have lived to age 116 years, 27 days (almost the same age as her countryman Jiroemon Kimura) rather than 117 as claimed.