Doubts About Her Case
Belgian researcher Michel Poulain has looked over Kamato Hongo's koseki records, and determined that since she had an older sibling born in 1890 and that since there was no mention of an adoption, Hongo was probably actually about 110 or so when she died, rather than 116. This means that Hongo was probably never the real WOP and never even Japan's oldest living person. She might or might not have been a supercentenarian at the time of her death.
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