Career
She was the first person from Japan verified to have reached the age of 115 and 116. Tane Ikai was born on 18 January 1879 in the village of Kansei, Aichi Prefecture (now part of Minato-ku, Nagoya). She was the third daughter of six children of a farming family.
She entered a nursing home at the age of 89 in 1968.
In 1988, at the age of 109, she suffered a stroke and was moved to a hospital, where she remained bedridden for the rest of her life. Ikai became Japan"s oldest person at the age of 113 in 1992 following the death of 114-year-old Waka Shirahama.
An autopsy indicated that she died of kidney failure.