ASIA / PACIFIC
March 18, 2019
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Japanese woman honored by
Guinness as oldest person at 116
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By Yuri Kageyama
The Associated Press
OKYO — A 116-year-old Japanese woman who
loves playing the board game Othello has been
honored as the world’s oldest living person by
Guinness World Records.
The global authority on records officially recognized
Kane Tanaka in a ceremony at the nursing home where
she lives in Fukuoka, in Japan’s southwest. Her family
and the mayor were present to celebrate.
Tanaka was born January 2, 1903, the seventh among
eight children. She married Hideo Tanaka in 1922, and
they had four children and adopted another child.
She is usually up by 6:00am and enjoys studying
mathematics.
The previous oldest living person was another Japanese
woman, Chiyo Miyako, who died in July at age 117. The
oldest person prior to Miyako was also Japanese.
Japanese tend to exhibit longevity and dominate the
oldest-person list. Although changing dietary habits
mean obesity has been rising, it’s still relatively rare in a
nation whose culinary tradition focuses on fish, rice,
vegetables, and other food low in fat. Age is also
traditionally respected here, meaning people stay active
and feel useful into their 80s and beyond.
But Tanaka has a ways to go before she is the oldest
person ever, an achievement of a French woman, Jeanne
Louise Calment, who lived to 122 years, according to
Guinness World Records.
Guinness said the world’s oldest man is still under
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ELDEST AT 116. Kane Tanaka, a 116-year-old Japanese woman,
gestures after receiving a Guinness World Records certificate, back, at the
nursing home where she lives in Fukuoka, southwestern Japan. Tanaka,
who loves playing the board game Othello, was honored as the world’s
oldest living person by Guinness World Records. (Takuto Kaneko/Kyodo
News via AP)
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Indonesia court allows dam in orangutan habitat to proceed
MEDAN, Indonesia (AP) —
Environmentalists have lost a court
challenge to a Chinese-backed dam in
Indonesia that will rip through the
habitat of the most critically
endangered orangutan species.
The state administrative court in
North Sumatra’s capital, Medan,
ruled that construction can continue
despite critics of the 510-megawatt
hydro dam providing evidence that
its environmental impact assessment
was deeply flawed.
Experts say the dam will flood and
in other ways alter the habitat of an
orangutan species numbering only
about 800 primates and likely make it
impossible to take a crucial step
toward ensuring the species survives
— reconnecting fragmented forests
the primates are spread across.
Scientists announced the discovery
of a third orangutan species, Pongo
tapanuliensis, in November after
DNA analysis and field study
revealed unique characteristics.
The population, with frizzier hair
and distinctively long calls for the
males, was previously believed to be
Sumatran orangutans, also critically
endangered.
Without
special
protection, it’s in danger of rapid
extinction, scientists say. The species
is found only in the Batang Toru
forest, where the dam will be built.
Announcing the decision of a
three-judge panel, presiding judge
Jimmy C. Pardede said the witnesses
and facts presented by the
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DAM PROBLEM. The director general of conservation of natural resources and ecosystems
at the Indonesian Forestry Ministry, Wiratno, center, inspects a screen displaying the map of the
Batang Toru Ecosystem in North Sumatra where a population of a species of orangutans was
found, during a press conference in Jakarta, Indonesia, in this November 3, 2017 file photo. Scien-
tists are calling for the cancellation of a Chinese-backed hydroelectric dam in Indonesia that threat-
ens the habitat of the recently discovered Pongo tapanuliensis, which numbers only 800 animals.
(AP Photo/Tatan Syuflana, File)
Indonesian
Forum
for
the administrative
perspective
and
Environment, the country’s largest ignored its environmental and
environmental group, in its case conservation dimensions.
against
the
North
Sumatra
China’s state-owned Sinohydro is
provincial government were irrele- building the dam, which is reportedly
financed by Chinese loans. Critics of
vant.
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Indonesian acronym Walhi, said it “Belt and Road” plans to carpet Asia
would appeal.
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“We will take all available legal and extend its economic and political
channels,” said Dana Prima Tarigan, influence.
the group’s executive director for
Anti-dam campaigners and groups
North Sumatra.
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The group said the judges protests in Batang Toru and outside
considered the case from a narrow the Chinese Consulate in Medan.
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