World's oldest man dies aged 112 in Japan

TOKYO: The worlds oldest man Yasutaro Koide has died at the age of 112 in Japan on Tuesday, foreign media reported.

Yasutaro Koide died two months before his 113th birthday. He was born on March 13, 1903. Koide became the world's oldest man in August last year.

Media reports said his secret to a long life was not to overdo it, or drink or smoke.

Masamitsu Yoshida, 111-year-old Tokyo native, succeeds Koide as the oldest man in Japan. Yoshida was born on May 30, 1904.  It was not immediately known whether Yoshida is also the world's oldest male.

The world's oldest person is an American woman, 116-year-old Susannah Mushatt Jones of Brooklyn, New York.