Shimetarō Hara

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Hara Shimetaro early20c.jpg
Shimetarō Hara in 1982
First page of Shimetarō Hara: Effects of Moxa on hemoglobin and RBC count. Iji Shinbun, no 1219, 10 Sept. 1927. (Summary in Esperanto)

Shimetarō Hara (原 志免太郎, Hara Shimetarō, 4 October 1882 – 18 June 1991) was a Japanese physician, active as medical doctor until age 104.[citation needed] At the time of his death at age 108 years, 257 days, Hara had been the oldest living Japanese man for almost 11 weeks after 109-year-old Nisaburo Matsuyama's death on 3 April 1991,[1] and was succeeded as Japan's oldest living man by Gihei Oka.[citation needed] Hara was the last living Japanese man born in 1882.

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  1. ^ "Newspaper" (PDF). www.manchesterhistory.org. Retrieved 2021-05-12.
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