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This combination of two undated photos show sisters Umeno Sumiyama (L) and Koume Kodama at separate nursing homes in Shodoshima island and Oita prefecture, Japan, which are released on Sept. 21, 2021. Guinness World Records via AP
TOKYO—Guinness World Records has certified two Japanese sisters as the world’s oldest living identical twins at 107, in an announcement Monday coinciding with Respect for the Aged Day, a national holiday in Japan.
Umeno Sumiyama and Koume Kodama were born the third and fourth of 11 siblings on Shodoshima island in western Japan on Nov. 5, 1913.
