Momoi, the former high school principal and father of five children, died at a Tokyo hospital on Sunday where he had lived for many years.
A Japanese man recognised as the world's oldest living man turned 112.
A 111-year-old Japanese was recognised as the world's oldest man by Guinness World Records on Wednesday, following the death in June of a Polish-born New Yorker.
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