107-year-old Japanese twins say the world’s oldest single twins in the record book | The world

By the time they were recognized on September 1, Umeno and Kume had completed 107 years and 300 days of life.

Umeno and Koume are already living apart from two world wars, epidemics and the present. Each is in a different nursing home Japan, As stated therein Guinness World Record.

Both were born on November 5, 1913, on the island of Shotoshima, 150 km from Osaka, and were part of a larger family – they had at least nine siblings.

The story of the twins initially took a different fate. After they finished elementary school, Gomez left the island and worked with his uncle in another city.

Umeno stayed in Shotoshima, where he married and raised a family.

Divided by about 300 km they did not meet often. However, on some special dates the two tried to be together.

At age 70, they embarked on a religious pilgrimage. At the 99th birthday party, Umeno joked that the sisters were both younger than the two achievers, Qin and Jin.

Nearly a decade later, they surpassed the milestones of their predecessors and, according to their caretakers, became very emotional when they received the official registration certificate.

Japan has already set several records for the longest population in the world.

The world’s oldest living Japanese man, Giroman Kimuro, Died June 12, 2013 at the age of 116.

The oldest person in the world is Kane Tanaka from Japan, who celebrated his 117th birthday at a nursing home in Fukuoka, southern Japan. In January last year.

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