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These twins are living their best life at 107!

Tue 21 Sep 2021    
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The Guinness World Records has certified two Japanese sisters as the world’s oldest living identical twins at 107.

Umeno Sumiyama and Koume Kodama were born the third and fourth of 11 siblings on Shodoshima island in western Japan on the 5th of November, 1913.

They were separated shortly after elementary school when Kodama was sent to work as a maid. She later married in Oita, while Sumiyama remained on Shodoshima island where they grew up and had her own family.

Busy with their own lives, the sisters rarely met until they turned 70 when they started making pilgrimages together to some of the 88 Shikoku temples.

Sumiyama and Kodama were 107 years and 300 days old as of Sept 1, breaking the previous record set by famous Japanese sisters Kin Narita and Gin Kanie at 107 years and 175 days, Guinness World Records Limited stated.

Their families told Guinness that the sisters often joked about outliving the earlier record-holders, affectionately known as “Kin-san, Gin-san,” who attained idol-like status in the late 1990s for both their age and humor.

As per COVID19 precaution measures, the certificates for their record were mailed to the separate nursing homes where they now live, and Sumiyama accepted hers with tears of happiness, as per Guinness.

Source: Agencies


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