Biography
Izumi's wife died at the age of 90. He drank brown sugar shōchū (a Japanese alcoholic beverage often distilled from barley or rice), and took up smoking at age 70. He claimed to have begun his career in 1872, goading draft animals at a sugar mill, and retired as a sugarcane farmer in 1970 at the claimed age of 105. He attributed his long life to "the Gods, Buddha and the Sun".
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