Japan doctor who practiced until months before his death dies at 105

FILE PHOTO: Japanese Empress Michiko (R) talks with physician Shigeaki Hinohara prior to a concert performed by South Korean tenor Bae Jae-chul in Tokyo, Japan, July 31, 2016. REUTERS/Kim Kyung-Hoon

TOKYO (Reuters) - A centenarian Japanese doctor who saw patients until just months before his death and helped set up the medical systems that have made Japan one of the world's longest-lived nations died on Tuesday at the age of 105.

Born in 1911, a year before the Titanic sank, Shigeaki Hinohara was for decades the director and public face of St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo, so well known as an "international" hospital that it treated luminaries such as Paul McCartney when he fell ill during a 2014 Japanese tour.