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World's oldest person has lots of company in Japan Kirk Spitzer, Special for USA TODAY 1:12 p.m. EST March 5, 2015 Misao Okawa of Japan, the world's oldest living person, is turning 117 years old. Mike Janela (@mikejanela) looks at her secrets for long life. Video provided by Buzz60  Newslook (Photo: Jiji Press, AFP/Getty Images)  5689 CONNECT  107 TWEET  11 LINKEDIN  12 COMMENT EMAIL MORE TOKYO — So what does Misao Okawa, the world's oldest person, think about her long life as she turned 117 on Thursday? "It seemed rather short," she said, according to the Associated Press, at a family celebration Wednesday at the nursing home in Osaka where she lives. Okawa might be forgiven for a somewhat blasé attitude. After all, Japan has more than 58,000 people who are least 100 years old — nearly 90% of them women. That's more than any other country. But age is no joking matter here. Increasing life expectancy and a plummeting birth ...