World's oldest person who loves fizzy drinks and chocolate celebrates her 119th birthday in nursing home
- Kane Tanaka, the world's oldest person, had her 119th birthday on Sunday, per Kyodo News.
- She celebrated in the nursing home in southwestern Japan, where she lives.
Kane Tanaka, born on January 2, 1903, marked her special day with the staff at the nursing home in Fukuoka, where she lives, per Kyodo News.
Tanaka hopes to live until she's 120 years old, her family members told Kyodo News.
In 2019, the Guinness World Records organization crowned Tanaka as the world's oldest living person when she was 116 years old.
The organization said in its report that Tanaka wakes up at 6 a.m and likes playing board games, and studying math.
Tanaka likes putting herself to the test by solving number puzzles and is also a fan of fizzy drinks and chocolate, Kyodo News reported.
When she won the award for becoming Japan's oldest person at 117, she celebrated with a bottle of coke, per Kyodo News.
Tanaka has nine siblings and got married to her husband when she was 19 years old, Kyodo News reported.
She was born in the same year that the Wright brothers became the first to achieve powered flight.
Tanaka has another three years to go until she breaks the all-time record for the oldest living person, held by Jeanne Louise Calment from France, who lived to 122 years.