List of supercentenarians from Asia

These are lists of Asian supercentenarians (people from Asia who have attained the age of at least 110 years). According to the Gerontology Research Group, The oldest verified Asian person ever was Misao Okawa of Japan, who died on 1 April 2015, aged 117 years 27 days. As of 24 April 2024, there are 23 verified living supercentenarians in Asia. The oldest verified living person in Asia is Nabi Tajima of Japan, born 4 August 1900, aged .

The vast majority of verified Asian cases of supercentenarians come from Japan due to Japan has kept birth records for more than a century while other Asian countries have historically been less meticulous about keeping such records; China and India have many supercentenarians, but none are confirmed because the governments did not track births prior to the early 1900s. There have been 5 emigrant supercentenarians from Asia who have been verified. The oldest ever emigrant from Asia was Lucy d'Abreu (1892-2005), born in India, who died in the United Kingdom aged 113 years 197 days.

Living Asian supercentenarians

Rank	Name	Sex	Birth date	Age as of 24 April 2024	Place of birth	Place of residence
1	Nabi Tajima	F	4 August 1900		Kagoshima, Japan	Kagoshima, Japan
2	Chiyo Miyako	F	2 May 1901		(unknown)	Kanagawa, Japan
3	Mitsue Toyoda	F	15 February 1902		(unknown)	Ōita, Japan
4	Yukie Hino	F	17 April 1902		(unknown)	Niigata, Japan
5	Kane Tanaka	F	2 January 1903		(unknown)	Fukuoka, Japan
6	Iso Nakamura	F	23 April 1903		Ishikawa, Japan	Ishikawa, Japan
7	Tae Ito	F	11 July 1903		(unknown)	Iwate, Japan
8	Shizue Nagata	F	25 July 1903		(unknown)	Kumamoto, Japan
9	Hatsuno Goto	F	1 September 1903		Niigata, Japan	Tokyo, Japan
10	Yisrael Kristal	M	15 September 1903		Poland	Haifa, Israel
11	Tane Shimada	F	25 September 1903		(unknown)	Saitama, Japan
12	Anonymous	F	12 January 1904		(unknown)	Chiba, Japan
13	Mumeno Sakurai	F	7 February 1904		(unknown)	Gunma, Japan
14	Kuma Kobayashi	F	8 February 1904		(unknown)	Aichi, Japan
15	Tomoe Iwata	F	25 March 1904		(unknown)	Iwate, Japan
16	Shin Matsushita	F	30 March 1904		(unknown)	Miyagi, Japan
17	Nugi Ikeda	F	1 April 1904		Nagasaki, Japan	Saga, Japan
18	Yoshiyo Bessho	F	1 April 1904		(unknown)	Okayama, Japan
19	Tsuya Hayashi	F	26 April 1904		(unknown)	Toyama, Japan
20	Tane Yonekura	F	2 May 1904		(unknown)	Kagoshima, Japan
21	Masamitsu Yoshida	M	30 May 1904		Tokyo, Japan	Tokyo, Japan
22	Katsue Hiraishi	F	9 June 1904		{unknown)	Tokushima, Japan
23	Tomo Sato	F	6 September 1904		(unknown)	Iwate , Japan
24	Hisa Arai	F	10 September 1904		(unknown)	Gifu, Japan
25	Tetsu Ishii	F	15 September 1904		(unknown)	Aomori, Japan
26	Asaki Miyagi	M	15 November 1904		(unknown)	Okinawa, Japan
27	Kuni Onose	F	31 December 1904		(unknown)	Ibaraki, Japan
28	Shigeyo Nakachi	F	1 February 1905		(unknown)	Saga, Japan
29	Etsu Nishiura	F	19 February 1905		(unknown)	Osaka, Japan
30	Satoru Tomizawa	M	10 March 1905		(unknown)	Chiba, Japan
31	Teru Hatakeyama	F	20 July 1905		(unknown)	Hokkaidō, Japan
32	Masazou Nonaka	M	25 July 1905		Hokkaidō, Japan	Hokkaidō, Japan
33	Tsukimi Kishi	F	31 August 1905		(unknown)	Tochigi, Japan
34	Sahae Kawabata	F	3 September 1905		(unknown)	Ehime, Japan
35	Toichi Sasaki	M	4 September 1905		(unknown)	Miyagi, Japan
36	Mumenno Ito	F	7 October 1905		(unknown)	Yamagata, Japan
37	Kiku Morita	F	20 October 1905		(unknown)	Kyoto, Japan
38	Kimi Asanuma	F	3 November 1905		(unknown)	Tokyo, Japan
39	Mina Kitagawa	F	3 November 1905		(unknown)	Shiga, Japan
40	Misao Ueki	F	7 November 1905		(unknown)	Shiga, Japan
41	Zhou Youguang	M	13 January 1906		Changzhou, Jiangsu, China	Beijing, China
42	Asakichi Okada	M	30 January 1906		(unknown)	Hyogo, Japan

†^ denotes age at death, or, if living, age as of 24 April 2024

Oldest supercentenarians from Asia top 100

All top 100 are from Japan

Asian emigrant supercentenarians

      Deceased       Living

Rank	Name	Sex	Birth date	Death date	Age	Country of birth	Country of residence or death
1	Lucy d'Abreu	F	24 May 1892	7 December 2005		India	United Kingdom (Scotland)
2	Ito Konno Kinase	F	31 December 1889	24 January 2003	113 years, 24 days	Japan	United States (Hawaii)
3	Ethel Farrell	F	27 November 1902	20 December 2015	113 years, 23 days	India	Australia (Victoria)
4	Tameko Shijo	F	1 January 1904	Living		Japan	United States (California)
5	Mabel Maloyan	F	26 December 1881	15 November 1992	110 years, 325 days	Armenia	United States (California)

a^ d'Abreu was born in Dharwar, which was then part of the British Raj. It is now in India.
b^ Farrell was born in British Raj. It is now in India.
c^ Maloyan was born in Russian Empire. It is now in Armenia.

See also

• List of oldest living people
• Nicholas Kao Se Tseien
• Elias Wen
• Zheng Ji (biochemist)