Japan's Tomiko is set to become the world's oldest person

116-year-old Japanese woman Tomiko Ituka is going to enter the Guinness Book of World Records as the oldest person in the world. Maria Branias Moreira, a 117-year-old Spanish woman, is set to become the oldest living woman after her death this week, a research group said Wednesday.

Tomiko Ituka was born on May 23, 1908, according to the US-based Gerontology Research Group. Currently, he lives in the city of Asia in western Japan.

Earlier, Maria Branias Moreira, a resident of Span, who held the title of the world's oldest person, died last Monday. He breathed his last in a nursing home in Spain. Japanese citizen Tomiko Ituka is set to become the world's oldest person after her death. He was a mountaineer.

Ituka is a mother of three children. In 1908, when the first long-distance radio message was sent from the Eiffel Tower, the Wright brothers conducted the first public flights of their airplanes in Europe and America; Ituka was born that year.

When he was in his seventies, Etuka often climbed the mountain. At that time, he climbed Mount Ontake twice in Japan at a height of 3,67 meters (10,62 feet).

Ituka surprised his guide by using sneakers instead of hiking boots to climb the mountain, the Gerontology Research Group said. At the age of 100, he reached the pilgrimage site of Asia in Japan without using a stick, the group said.