browser Mom, son held for 3,250 hotel cancellations Tokyo: Japanese police arrested a mother- and- son duo for allegedly making more than 3,200 no- show hotel cancellations, costing the hotels $ 1 million while collecting reward points worth $ 22,000. Police in the western region of Kyoto confirmed on Wednesday they had taken into custody a 51- year- old mother and her 31- year- old son.
Japanu2019s Watanabe is Worldu2019s Oldest Man Tokyo: A Japanese man Chitetsu Watanabe has become the worldu2019s oldest male at 112 years and 344 days old, according to Guinness World Records.
Watanabe, who was born in Niigata in northern Japan in 1907, received a certificate on Wednesday at a nursing home. The previous record- holder, Masazo Nonaka, another Japanese, died last month.