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THE world's second oldest woman has died aged 116 after suffering no prior health problems.

Fusa Tatsumi, from Japan, died from old age and had recently spent most of her days in bed at a nursing home in Kashiwara.She regularly greeted the employees working there, and according to the home she was well until Monday morning, eating her favourite bean-paste jelly.

Fusa enjoyed gardening and practised the art of Japanese tea ceremony and flower arrangement after graduating from elementary school.

 She became only the 27th person in history to reach the age of 116, and was only the seventh Japanese person to do so.

Fusa was the fifth out of six children born to her parents and her husband died when she was 55-years-old.