Kane Tanaka, who was born on January 2, 1903, was certified by Guinness World Records as the oldest living person in 2019 when she was 116.
Tanaka loved playing the board game Othello, eating chocolate and drinking fizzy drinks.
She died of old age on April 19 at a hospital in Fukuoka, her home town in southern Japan where she spent all her life, city officials told AP.
Fukuoka governor Seitaro Hattori said he was shocked and saddened by Tanaka's death as he was looking forward to marking the Respect for the Aged Day with her later this year.
Japan, whose population is rapidly ageing and declining, has 86,510 centenarians, 90 per cent of them women, according to ministry figures.
In Japan, the new record holder is a 115-year-old woman, Fusa Tatsumi of Osaka, the Japanese health ministry said.
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