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The Guinness World Records recognised Ms Tanaka as the oldest person alive in 2019. In 2020 she became the oldest person in Japan at 117 and 261 days old.
Kane Tanaka enjoyed board games, solving maths problems, soda and chocolate. She married Hideo Tanaka a century ago in 1922 and they had four children and adopted a fifth.
Ms Tanaka’s daily routine was described at the time as including a 6:00 am wake-up, and afternoons spent studying mathematics and practising calligraphy.
Japan has the world’s most elderly population, according to World Bank data, with around 28 per cent aged 65 or over.
Most times it is difficult to document old people because many of them do not remember the year they were born and their births were not documented. So it wouldn’t be shocking to learn that there are people that are older than the late Kane Tanaka. In Zimbabwe, we have many old people but they mostly live in the rural areas
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]]>According to Mangwana 3 Zimbabwean engineers have been in Japan for over 2 years working at the Japanese Space Agency and the president ED Mnangagwa has promised to give all the required support to make this a success.
The perm sec unprovoked tweeted that the first satellite will be called ZIMSAT-1, and it is currently being manufactured by Zimbabwean engineers and it is currently at an advanced stage.
This undertaking is being carried out by Zimbabwe’s equivalent of NASA called Zimbabwe National Geospacial Space Agency (ZINGSA)
Flight readiness and review is scheduled to be done in December 2021, with the final launch expected for February 2022 in Japan.
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If the nations manages to launch it join a very short list of African countires that have a number of satellites already in orbit, Egypt leads the way with nine launched satellites, followed by South Africa with eight, Algeria with seven, Nigeria with six, and Morocco with three
At his stage we are not aware of the purpose of the satellite, hopefully it is not for spying purposes.
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