article_snippet.sent: The world's oldest person has died a few weeks after celebrating The world's oldest person 117th birthday - after saying The world's oldest person life seemed 'rather short'.
article_snippet.sent: Misao Okawa was surrounded by The world's oldest person family and staff at The world's oldest person nursing home in Osaka, Japan, as The world's oldest person died of heart failure on April 1.
article_snippet.sent: The world's oldest person, Misao Okawa of Japan, died on April 1 aged 117.
article_snippet.sent: The 'super-centenarian', who was only fifth person ever recorded to have reached the age of 117,  but was still walking until great-grandmother was 110.
article_snippet.sent: great-grandmother was recognised as the world's oldest person by the Guinness World Records in 2013.
article_snippet.sent: Gertrude Weaver, aged 116, is now the world's oldest person, according to Los Angeles-based Geronotology Research Group, .
article_snippet.sent: The new oldest person in the world, American Gertrude Weaver, is aged 116 and lives in Arkansas.
article_snippet.sent: The Guinness World Records announced Okawa was the oldest person in the world in 2003.
article_snippet.sent: Japan's oldest person is now a 115-year-old Tokyo woman, according to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare.
article_snippet.sent: Japan has the most centenarians in the world, with more than 58,000, according to the government.
article_snippet.sent: About 87 percent of the most centenarians in the world are women.
highlights_snippet.sent: Gertrude Weaver, 116, from Arkansas, USA, now world's oldest person .