Shitsui Hakoishi can still cut it as a barber in her salon in the town of Nakagawa, after earning her licence in 1936

A 108-year-old Japanese woman has been named the world’s oldest female barber, nine decades after she first started cutting hair professionally.

Shitsui Hakoishi, who received official recognition from Guinness World Records this week, said she had no plans to stop working at her salon in the town of Nakagawa, Tochigi prefecture.