Japan's Oldest Lady Gets Cartoon Cake

Yone Minagawa is the oldest woman in Japan, and recently celebrated her 114th birthday with this adorable manga-iced birthday cake. Yone was born in 1893 in the Fukuoka Prefecture, and holds the title of 4th-oldest person in the world. She raised her five children alone after her husband died, selling flowers and vegetables in a coal mining town.

While she now spends a lot of time in bed, Minagawa is in good spirits and asks about the well-being of nursing home staffers and jokes with them, nursing home staff said.

She loves sweets but often gives them away whenever others are around her. On the days she feels well, she participates in club activities in a wheelchair and moves her body along to music, they said.

I think it should be a rule that birthday cakes have portraits of the recipient painted onto them with icing. The symbolism of eating your own face as you take another trembling step closer to death is, in a word, delicious.