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	Kamato Hongo's Tomb Stone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Born in 1887, Hongo was recognized as the world's oldest by the Guinness Book of Records after an American woman — Maude Farris-Luse — died in March at the age of 115.
		Hongo was famous throughout Japan for her habit of sleeping for two days and then staying awake for two days.
		Hongo symbolized the graying of Japan's society — a trend that elicits both pride and concern.
	www.theghoulpool.com /GP2003/hongo.htm (174 words)

	Kamato Hongo's ordinary life - theage.com.au
		Kamato Hongo faces life's challenges with the support of her family, such as great-granddaughter Tomoko Kurauchi.
		Kamato Hongo is 115 years old, and exercises her undeniable right to have an unusual, if predictable, sleeping pattern.
		And there is Mrs Hongo, propped up in bed with a tape recorder on her knees, moving elegantly in her daily ritual of teodori, a slow posture dance.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/11/28/1038386258850.html?from=top5 (1345 words)

	Kamato Hongo -- world's oldest person at 116 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Kamato Hongo, a Japanese woman believed to have been the oldest person in the world, died Friday of pneumonia on the southern island of Kyushu.
		Hongo was famous in her region for her unusual habit of sleeping 48 hours at a time and then staying awake for two days, a pattern that she began after she had hip surgery at the age of 110.
		Hongo was born on the small island of Tokunoshimi, off Kyushu, which was also the birthplace of Shigechiyo Izumi, who was 120 when he died in 1986 and was believed to be the oldest living person at the time.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/11/01/BAG7Q2O86H1.DTL&type=printable (553 words)

	Kamato, 115, erupts into song - smh.com.au
		Kamato Hongo is 115, and exercises her undeniable right to have an unusual if predictable sleeping pattern.
		And there is Mrs Hongo, propped up in bed with a tape recorder on her knees, moving elegantly in her daily ritual of "teordori", a slow posture dance.
		Kamato Hongo was born on the island of Amamioshima, to the south of Japan's main islands.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/11/29/1038386314533.html (1141 words)

	Bouquets as Kamato Hongo wakes to her 116th birthday - www.smh.com.au
		Kamato Hongo, who may be the world's oldest person, turned 116 yesterday and, unlike last year, stayed awake for the big day.
		But yesterday Mrs Hongo was wide awake to receive a steady stream of well-wishers at her home in Kagoshima, on Japan's southern island of Kyushu.
		The celebration was typical of Mrs Hongo's family, whose warmth and love appear to be a main factor in her longevity.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/09/16/1063625039159.html (353 words)

	Kamato Hongo's ordinary life - theage.com.au
		From the second floor hangs a banner put up by local residents declaring that this is the home of Kamato Hongo, aged 115 and the oldest person in the world.
		Kamato Hongo was born on the island of Amami-Oshima, part of a group of islands to the south of Japan's main islands.
		If there is a secret to Mrs Hongo's life, it may be the caring environment in which she has always found herself.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2002/11/28/1038386258850.html (1345 words)

	A Woman's CyberSpace - Women To Remember
		The world's oldest living person, Kamato Hongo, seen here in September 2003, died at the age of 116 years, with her sense of humor still intact until her last days.
		Kamato Hongo, a Japanese woman believed to be the oldest living person in the world, is shown in this photo taken on Sept. 9, 2003, six days before turning 116-years-old.
		Born September 16, 1887, Kamato Hongo was raised on a small rural island in southern Japan.
	www.transporting.to /CyberWoman/remember-women.html (728 words)

	JapanCorner News
		Kamato Hongo, who turned 115 years old on September 16th, became the world’s oldest person after Monday’s death of the previous record holder, Maud Farris-Luse of Coldwater, Michigan.
		Hongo is the second Japanese person to hold this title in recent years.
		Both Hongo and Izumi were born in Isen - a small town on the southern island of Kyushu in Kagoshima prefecture — well known for the longevity of its residents.
	www.japancorner.com /news/news_main.asp?story=651 (286 words)

	LA Times Obituary for Kamato Hongo on November 1, 2003
		Hongo had been admitted to a hospital in the city of Kagoshima, near her home, several weeks earlier.
		Hongo's longevity is in keeping with Japan's reputation as the country with the longest average life-expectancy rate women are expected to live to be 85.2 and men to be 78.3, according to the latest Japanese government survey.
		Hongo married in 1914, cultivated sugarcane with her husband, and raised three daughters and four sons with him before he died in 1964.
	www.grg.org /KHongo.htm (749 words)

	World’s oldest person dies in Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Kamato Hongo is shown in this photo taken Sept. 9, six days before she turned 116.
		BORN IN 1887, when Japan was gradually opening up to the world after more than two centuries of isolation, Hongo was known for her love of “dancing” by waving her hands and for sleeping two days and then staying awake for the next two.
		Hongo’s title as the oldest person in the world was sometimes disputed, but she was recognized as the record-holder by the Guinness Book of Records.
	www.msnbc.com /news/987405.asp (232 words)

	Blog of Death: Kamato Hongo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Kamato Hongo, the oldest person in the world, died on Oct. 31 from pneumonia.
		Born in 1887, Kamato Hongo was raised on a small rural island in southern Japan.
		During her lifetime, Kamato Hongo bore seven children, and had 27 grandchildren, 57 great grandchildren and 11 great great grandchildren.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/000461.html (158 words)

	Easter Homily -- 2004
		The death of Kamato Hongo of Kagoshima, Japan last fall went unnoticed by most people except for the fact that she died at the age of 116 - at the time, the world's oldest person.
		Hongo was born in April of 1887, married in 1914, had seven children, and lots of grandchildren, great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
		Kamato Hongo had no trouble sleeping, and when she died, you could say she entered her final rest.
	eliotchapel.org /sermonDocs/EasterHomily2004.htm (942 words)

	Hongo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For the woman who was at one point the oldest person on Earth, see Kamato Hongo.
		Hongo (本郷) is a district of Tokyo located in Bunkyo Ward, due north of the Imperial Palace and west of Ueno.
		It is best known for being the location of the University of Tokyo's main campus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hongo (101 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Obituaries / Kamato Hongo, held record as world's oldest person; 116
		Hongo was recognized as the world's oldest person by the Guinness Book of Records after American Maude Farris-Luse died in March at 115.
		Hongo symbolized the graying of Japan's society, a trend that elicits both pride and concern.
		Hongo's death, the title of world's oldest person goes to Mitoyo Kawate, a 114-year-old woman from Hiroshima.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/obituaries/articles/2003/11/01/kamato_hongo_held_record_as_worlds_oldest_person_116?mode=PF (282 words)

	CBC News:World's oldest person turns 116 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Hongo claims that unlike most people, who require a snooze once a day, she sleeps for two solid days then stays awake for the next two.
		Born in 1887, Hongo is bedridden and shares a hospital room with her 77-year-old daughter.
		Hongo is one of many Japanese to pass the 100-year-old mark.
	www.cbc.ca /stories/2003/09/16/japan_116030916 (208 words)

	CTV.ca - World's oldest woman turns 116 in Japan- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
		Born in 1887, when Japan was still in the throes of its conversion from samurai rule to modern democracy, Kamato Hongo was recognized as the world's oldest living person by the Guinness Book of Records after an American woman — Maude Farris-Luse — died last March at the age of 115.
		Hongo, whose husband died when she was 77, is famous throughout Japan for her habit of sleeping for two days and then staying awake for two days.
		Hongo is now bedridden and shares a hospital room with her 77-year-old daughter.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1063716045005_22?hub=Health&subhub=PrintStory (372 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Asia-Pacific \| World's oldest person celebrates birthday
		Mrs Hongo, who sleeps for two days and stays awake for two days, slept through the morning of her birthday, but was to celebrate with her family in southern Japan in the afternoon, according to media reports.
		She enjoys a tipple of sake, or Japanese rice wine, and uses her arms to perform the traditional dances of her native Tokunoshima island off Kagoshima prefecture in the south of the country.
		Mrs Hongo was recognised by the Guinness Book of Records as the oldest living person in March, after the death of Maud Farris-Luse, who died aged 115 in Michigan in the American Mid-West.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/asia-pacific/2261264.stm (350 words)

	CBSNews.com: Print This Story
		Hongo's death comes a little more than a month after the man believed to be the world's oldest also died in Japan.
		Hongo and Chuganji's deaths symbolized the graying of Japan's society — a trend that elicits both pride and concern.
		The changing demographic has raised fears the nation's pension and health care systems will be badly strained in the years ahead by a population consisting of fewer people of working and taxpaying age.
	uttm.com /stories/2003/09/29/world/printable575557.shtml (448 words)

	USATODAY.com - 114-year-old woman becomes oldest person (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Hongo, born Sept. 16, 1887, was raised on a farm and counts drinking Japanese rice wine among her favorite things — along with fl salt, pork, sashimi, and green tea, according to Guinness.
		Hongo had seven children, more than 20 grandchildren, and outlived her eldest daughter, who was in her 90s when she died two years ago, according to Kurauchi, who described Hongo as a "warm, caring grandmother."
		Hongo was born in the nearby town of Isen, home to the late Shigechiyo Izumi, who also held the Guinness record as the world's oldest living person.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2002/03/20/woman.htm (336 words)

	CTV.ca - Oldest person in the world dies in Japan at 116- CTV News, Shows and Sports -- Canadian Television
		Born in 1887, Kamato Hongo was recognized as the world's oldest living person by the Guinness Book of Records after an American woman - Maude Farris-Luse - died last March at the age of 115.
		She was raised on a small, rural island on Japan's southern fringe, and grew up tending to cows and farming potatoes.
		Hongo symbolized the graying of Japan's society - a trend that elicits both pride and concern.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/print/CTVNews/1067599062012_119?hub=World&subhub=PrintStory (316 words)

	‘World's oldest person' dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Kamato Hongo died in hospital on Friday, one of her grandsons said.
		Mrs Hongo, who lived on the island of Tokunoshima in southern Japan, had been bed-ridden for some time.
		Mrs Hongo was well-known throughout Japan for her habit of sleeping for two days and then staying awake for two days.
	globalag.igc.org /health/world/oldestperson.htm (262 words)

	World's oldest person dies at 116 in Japan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Hongo died in a hospital in the southern Kagoshima City of the Kagoshima Prefecture.
		Hongo was known for her routine of sleeping for two consecutivedays and then staying awake for the next two days.
		With Hongo's death, Mitoyo Kawate, 114, of the city of Hiroshima, became the oldest person in Japan, according to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
	english1.peopledaily.com.cn /200311/01/eng20031101_127363.shtml (321 words)

	RTE News - World's oldest person dies at 116
		The oldest person in the world, Kamato Hongo, died on Friday aged 116 in a hospital in southern Japan.
		Born in 1887, when Japan was gradually opening up to the world after more than two centuries of isolation, Ms Hongo was known for her love of 'dancing' by waving her hands and for sleeping two days and then staying awake for the next two.
		Ms Hongo's title as the oldest person in the world was sometimes disputed, but she was recognised as the record-holder by the Guinness Book of Records.
	www.rte.ie /news/2003/1031/oldest.html (185 words)

	Kagoshima on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Mme Kamato Hongo Ã Kagoshima La personne la plus Ã¢gÃ©e au monde, une Japonaise de 116 ans, Mme Kamato Hongo, s'est Ã©teinte.
		Mme Kamato Hongo Ã Kagoshima La personne la plus Ã¢gÃ©e au monde, Mme Kamato Hongo, s'est Ã©teinte vendredi Ã l'Ã¢ge de 116 an.
		Mme Kamato Hongo Ã Kagoshima La doyenne de l'humanitÃ©, Mme Kamato Hongo, a soufflÃ© mardi ses 116 bougies en famille au Jap.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/k/kagoshim.asp (757 words)

	USATODAY.com - 'World's oldest person' dies at 116 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		TOKYO (AP) — Kamato Hongo, a Japanese woman believed to have been the world's oldest person, died Friday.
		Kamato Hongo, shown here in September, was recognized in the Guinness Book of Records.
		Hongo's doctor, Kiyoshige Niina, said she died of pneumonia.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2003-10-31-oldest-person_x.htm (548 words)

	9&10 News: Japan Oldest Person (10/31/2003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Kamato Hongo was born in 1887 and earned her distinction from the Guinness Book of Records after an American woman died at the age of 115.
		Hongo was raised on a small, rural island on Japan's southern fringe, and grew up tending to cows and farming potatoes.
		She was famous throughout Japan for one of her habits -- sleeping for two days and then staying awake for two days.
	www.9and10news.com /News/Story.asp?StoryID=31310&Style=2 (131 words)

	WORLDS OLDEST WOMAN CELEBRATES BIRTHDAY - 115 !!
		Kamato Hongo, the oldest person in the world, is celebrating her 115th birthday after a 48-hour sleep.
		Kamato, who was born on September 16, 1887, sleeps for two days and stays up for two days - and slept through the morning of her birthday.
		Kamato, who lives on the southern Japan island of Kyushu, has seven children, more than 20 grandchildren, and has outlived her eldest daughter, who died two years ago while in her 90s.
	www.strangepersons.com /content/item/6274.html (251 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		TOKYO -- Kamato Hongo, a Japanese woman believed to have been the world's oldest person, died Friday.
		Born in 1887, Hongo was recognized as the world's oldest by the Guinness Book of Records after an American woman -- Maude Farris-Luse -- died in March at the age of 115.
		It was not immediately clear who the world's oldest person was following Hongo's death.
	www.people.memphis.edu /~jzelazny/deadpool/obitkamatohongo.htm (195 words)

	CNN.com - World's oldest person dies at 116 - Oct. 31, 2003
		She had been in hospital in the city of Kagoshima, 1,000 km (620 miles) southwest of Tokyo, for several weeks, according to a relative.
		Japan is one of the world's most rapidly ageing societies, with one in five citizens now aged 65 or over, the highest percentage among industrialised nations.
		Hongo's title as the oldest person in the world was sometimes disputed, but she was recognised as the record-holder by the Guinness Book of Records.
	www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/east/10/31/oldest.woman.reut (261 words)

	TIME Asia Magazine: Milestones -- Nov. 10, 2003
		KAMATO HONGO, 116, believed to be the world's oldest person, who credited her longevity to "not moping around"; in Kagoshima, Japan.
		Hongo was born on Tokunoshima, a small island in the southern Amami Islands, an area known for its record-breaking centenarians.
		With Hongo's death, the distinction goes to Mitoyo Kawate, a 114-year-old woman in Hiroshima.
	time.com /time/asia/magazine/article/0,13673,501031110-536282,00.html (908 words)

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