According to the local media, Sakari Momoi died of kidney failure Sunday.
Sakari Momoi was born on February 5, 1903. He worked as a high school chemistry teacher and principal in Fukushima and Saitama prefectures. He repeatedly said that he did not do anything special to achieve longevity but his doctors say he kept to a quite a healthy lifestyle.
Momoi became world’s oldest man in 2014, following the death of his predecessor, 111-year-old American chemist and writer Alexander Imich.
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