BORN on Jan. 2, 1903 in Japan, Kane Tanaka was confirmed as the oldest person on the planet by the Guinness World Records last year.

She is just five years shy of becoming the oldest person who have ever lived.

Although she was born in the same year that the Wright Brothers achieved powered flight, Tanaka remains in good health and still enjoys beating her care home staff at board games.

The supercentenarian was the seventh child of Kumakichi and Kuma Ota and was born prematurely Jan. 2.

Four days after turning 19, she got married to husband Jideo Tanaka on Jan. 6, 1922.

They ran a business together, where they made and sold sticky rice, a type of Japanese sweet called Zenzai, and Udon noodles.

The couple lived in Fukuoka Prefecture and had four children together, before adopting their fifth.

Now, she has five grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren and says her secret to longevity is family, sleep and hope.

Every day she wakes up at 6 a.m. and enjoys studying maths or calligraphy in the afternoon.

Her family said she has a sweet tooth and on the day she was officially named the world’s oldest person, she enjoyed a box of chocolates.

Two years ago she said she would like to live until she was at least 120 years old.

Japan is known for its longevity with the longest-living man and the current oldest living man also hailing from Japan.

The oldest man ever, Jiroemon Kimura, died in 2013, aged 116.

The longest-living person ever was French woman Jeanne Louise Calment who died in 1997, aged 122.

(SD-Agencies)