Misao Okawa
Misao Okawa, the world's oldest person celebrated her 116th birthday on Wednesday, February 5.
She became the world's oldest person last June following the death of Jiroemon Kiruma, a Japanese man at 116 and she was presented with a certificate by the Guinness Book of Records officially recognising her as the world's oldest living woman.
According to her, her long life is as a result of eating sushi, getting eight hours' sleep a night and relaxing.
Misao, who lives in a nursing home in Osaka celebrated with a birthday cake and bunches of flowers, wearing a flower in her hair for the party.
![](http://img.naij.com/n/07/0/misao-okawa-3.jpg)
Misao Okawa
![](http://img.naij.com/n/00/f/misao-okawa-0.jpg)
![](http://img.naij.com/n/09/b/misao-okawa-byday.jpg)
Misao Okawa eating her birthday cake
Born in 1898, she married in 1919 but was widowed in 1931 when her husband died and is now a mother of three, grandma of four and great-grand mother of six.