Shimetarō Hara
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. 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. Hara was the last living Japanese man born in 1882.


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)
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