'Eat light to live long'
In an interview in December, his nephew, Tamotsu Miyake, said Kimura had "an amazingly strong will to live".
"He is strongly confident that he lives right and well."
"Maybe it's all thanks to the sun above me," he said. "I am always looking up towards the sky, that is how I am."
Journalist Kanoko Matsuyama of Bloomberg News met Mr Kimura at his home last year.
"He said his secret to his longevity was eating light to live long," Ms Matsuyama told the BBC.
A bit of a inspirational reason for us to keep going and be happy even when the scales are not heading in the right direction for us
In an interview in December, his nephew, Tamotsu Miyake, said Kimura had "an amazingly strong will to live".
"He is strongly confident that he lives right and well."
"Maybe it's all thanks to the sun above me," he said. "I am always looking up towards the sky, that is how I am."
Journalist Kanoko Matsuyama of Bloomberg News met Mr Kimura at his home last year.
"He said his secret to his longevity was eating light to live long," Ms Matsuyama told the BBC.
A bit of a inspirational reason for us to keep going and be happy even when the scales are not heading in the right direction for us
