Guinness World Records announced that two Japanese sisters who have been recognized by the encyclopedia as the world’s oldest identical twins are 107 years and 330 days old.
Sisters Umino Sumiyama and Kumi Kodama were born on the island of Shodoshima in western Japan on November 5, 1913, the third and fourth of 11 siblings.
Guinness said in a statement that, as of September 1, the two sisters broke the previous record of 107 years and 175 days, set by the famous Japanese twin sisters Ken Narita and Jin Kani.
Sumiyama and Kodama were separated after completing elementary school, when Kodama was sent to work as a maid in Oita, on the main island of Kyushu in southern Japan. She later remarried there, while Simyama remained on the island where the two sisters were born, and has her family.