Shigechiyo izumi biography of rory

Japanese supercentenarian

Shigechiyo Izumi (泉 重千代, Izumi Shigechiyo, ? – 21 February 1986) was a Japanese man who was titled the oldest living person after the death of Niwa Kawamoto on 16 November 1976, also from Japan.

Izumi's claimed birth date of 29 June 1865 was accepted by Guinness World Records, which recognized him as the oldest verified man ever, but this was eventually withdrawn in 2010; in the 2012 edition of the Guinness World Records book, Christian Mortensen was named the "oldest verified man ever" and Izumi was not mentioned.^[1]

Biography

Guinness World Records found a document attesting that he was 24 years old in 1889 when he was exempted from military service to deal with sugar cane fields.^{[citation needed]}

Izumi drank brown sugarshōchū (a Japanese alcoholic beverage often distilled from barley or rice), and took up smoking at age 70.^{[2][failed verification]} Izumi's personal physic