Talk:Tsuneyo Toyonaga

Potential problem[edit]

This article refers to Toyonaga as male, potentially causing confusion and edit wars for anyone not aware that Toyonaga is female (I trust the GRG over the newspaper, hopefully I am correct?). Anyhow, if it comes up, this is the source. Oh, and if they change it, the title right now says "Japan's Oldest Man, Tsuneyo Toyonaga, Takes Over as Top Dog." Cheers, CP 17:44, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

"She" is a female, of course, because otherwise "he" would have been the world's oldest man at 113 (remember Kamato Hongo?). Extremely sexy 23:11, 20 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That blog was written by a non-Japanese (Bill Balew?) who apparently is ignorant that the 'o'/'a' rules in European naming conventions do not apply to Japan. Toyonaga is female, otherwise why would they say that Tomoji Tanabe is the oldest man in Japan???Ryoung122 12:45, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]

That's exactly my point. Extremely sexy 17:32, 21 August 2007 (UTC)[reply]