Yasutaro Koide
# Yasutaro Koide

Yasutaro Koide (小出 保太郎, Koide Yasutarō, 13 March 1903 – 19 January 2016) was a Japanese supercentenarian, who was the oldest living man in the world following the death of Sakari Momoi on 5 July 2015, until his own death on 19 January 2016.

Born on 13 March 1903, Koide worked as a tailor for a men's clothes shop in Tsuruga, Fukui. He moved to Nagoya when he was 107 years old, to live with his daughter. When he turned 110, Koide could still read newspapers without eyeglasses and eat without dentures. He became the oldest living person in Aichi Prefecture on 31 March 2014, following the death of Nagoya resident Tsuya Miura, who died at the age of 111.

On 21 August 2015, he was officially recognised as the oldest living man by Guinness World Records. When asked about the secret to his long life, Koide responded by stating that "the best thing is to not overdo" and recommending abstinence from smoking or drinking.

He died on 19 January 2016, of heart failure and pneumonia in a hospital in Nagoya at the age of 112 years, 312 days, and was succeeded as the world's oldest man by Yisrael Kristal.

