TOKYO, Japan -- The world's oldest person, a Japanese woman, died Wednesday, a few weeks after celebrating her 117th birthday. Misao Okawa died of heart failure and stopped breathing as relatives and ...

Jeralean Talley of Inkster, Mich., made headlines in May when she officially became the world’s oldest woman after the deaths of Misao Okawa of Osaka, Japan, at age 117, and Gertrude Weaver of Camden, ...

(CNN) -- Misao Okawa, the world's oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died at the age of 117. Okawa passed away Wednesday morning in Osaka, Japan, Tadahi Uchimura, a local official ...

117-year old Misao Okawa died of heart failure in a nursing home in Osaka, which is the city she was born in 117-year old Misao Okawa died of heart failure in a nursing home in Osaka, which is the ...