12 June 2013
Updated at 05:32 ET
Jiroemon Kimura dies at 116
Jiroemon Kimura was described by a relative as "positive and optimistic"
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A Japanese man recognised as the world's oldest living person, and the oldest man recorded in history, has died aged 116, local officials say.
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