TOKYO (Reuters) – The world’s oldest man greeted his 114th birthday in rural JapanTuesday with a breakfast of grilled sea bream, miso soup and red-bean rice — telling interviewers he planned to live until the age of 120. Former postal workerJirouemon Kimura told city officials of his native Kyotango in western Japan that…
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