Mr Momoi, who cited healthy
eating and a good night's sleep as the secrets to a very long life, died of
kidney failure at a care home in Tokyo on Sunday.
The former high school principal and father-of-five was born on February 5, 1903 - the year the teddy bear was introduced and the Wright brothers made their first powered flight. He was 42 when the Second World War ended.
Mr Momoi was named the oldest man by Guinness World Records in August. Born in Fukushima, Mr Momoi first worked as a teacher and later become a principal in high schools across his home town as well as neighbouring Saitama.He enjoyed reading, especially Chinese poetry, and also travelling around Japan with his late wife.
On receiving his Guinness World Record title, Mr Mamoi said: "I want to live about two more years."In April the world's oldest person and oldest woman, Misao Okawa from Japan died at the age of 117. Her titles are now held by 116-year-old American Susannah Mushatt Jones.
Guinness has not yet announced who is now the world's oldest an - although it may well be 112-year-old Japanese Yasutaro Koide who was born a month after Mr Mamoi. The oldest person who has ever lived according to Guinness was Jeanne Calment from France, who lived 122 years and 164 days. She died in August 1997.
The former high school principal and father-of-five was born on February 5, 1903 - the year the teddy bear was introduced and the Wright brothers made their first powered flight. He was 42 when the Second World War ended.
Mr Momoi was named the oldest man by Guinness World Records in August. Born in Fukushima, Mr Momoi first worked as a teacher and later become a principal in high schools across his home town as well as neighbouring Saitama.He enjoyed reading, especially Chinese poetry, and also travelling around Japan with his late wife.
On receiving his Guinness World Record title, Mr Mamoi said: "I want to live about two more years."In April the world's oldest person and oldest woman, Misao Okawa from Japan died at the age of 117. Her titles are now held by 116-year-old American Susannah Mushatt Jones.
Guinness has not yet announced who is now the world's oldest an - although it may well be 112-year-old Japanese Yasutaro Koide who was born a month after Mr Mamoi. The oldest person who has ever lived according to Guinness was Jeanne Calment from France, who lived 122 years and 164 days. She died in August 1997.
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