World's Oldest Living Man, Who Said Secret to Long Life Was 'To Smile,' Dies at 112
Watanabe was born in Niigata — the northern port city on Honshu, Japan’s main island — back on March 5, 1907, according toa Guinness World Records profile of him earlier this month. The first of his parents’ eight children, he would go on to study agriculture and find work as a staffer at Dai-Nippon Meiji Sugar. He later relocated to Taiwan to help conclude sugar can plantation contracts there. It would be 18 years before Watanabe returned to his hometown....