Shitsui Hakoishi, born in 1916, still holds her own scissors, and took part this week in a celebration ceremony reportedly ...
She is 108 but the slender, white-haired Japanese woman has no plans to retire anytime soon. Shitsui Hakoishi says the formal ...
In 2021, she drew attention as a torchbearer in Tochigi Prefecture for the Tokyo Olympics. In 2023, she was also recognized by a research firm in Florida as the world's oldest active barber.
and she and her children evacuated to her parents’ home in Tochigi Prefecture. “I was waiting for my husband to come back and we would open another store in Tokyo,” Hakoishi said.
“I could come this far only because of my customers,” Hakoishi told a televised news conference Wednesday at a gymnasium in her hometown of Nakagawa in the Tochigi prefecture, northeast of Tokyo.
“I could come this far only because of my customers,” Hakoishi told a televised news conference Wednesday at a gymnasium in her hometown of Nakagawa in the Tochigi prefecture, northeast of Tokyo.