Kame Higa (22 June 1892 - 23 February 2005) was the second-oldest living person in Japan at the time of her death, aged 112 years, 246 days. She lived in Naha, Okinawa. Higa was the fifth out of 8 siblings, all of whom died aged 40 or less; her four older siblings died young, while her two younger brothers died in their 20s. At the age of 20, she married, and would later give birth to nine children: seven sons and two twin daughters. Five of Higa's children were still alive at the time of her death; two of her sons, as well as her husband, died in World War II, while one of her daughters and her youngest son both died at the age of 3.