1965 in Japan
Events from the year 1965 in Japan.
  | |||||
| Decades: | 
  | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| See also: | Other events of 1965 History of Japan • Timeline • Years  | ||||
Incumbents
    
- Emperor: Hirohito[1]
 - Prime Minister: Eisaku Satō (Liberal Democratic)
 - Chief Cabinet Secretary: Tomisaburo Hashimoto
 - Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Kisaburo Yokota
 - President of the House of Representatives: Naka Funada until December 20, Kikuchirō Yamaguchi
 - President of the House of Councillors: Yūzō Shigemune
 
Governors
    
- Aichi Prefecture: Mikine Kuwahara
 - Akita Prefecture: Yūjirō Obata
 - Aomori Prefecture: Shunkichi Takeuchi
 - Chiba Prefecture: Taketo Tomonō
 - Ehime Prefecture: Sadatake Hisamatsu
 - Fukui Prefecture: Eizō Kita
 - Fukuoka Prefecture: Taichi Uzaki
 - Fukushima Prefecture: Morie Kimura
 - Gifu Prefecture: Yukiyasu Matsuno
 - Gunma Prefecture: Konroku Kanda
 - Hiroshima Prefecture: Iduo Nagano
 - Hokkaido: Kingo Machimura
 - Hyogo Prefecture: Motohiko Kanai
 - Ibaraki Prefecture: Nirō Iwakami
 - Ishikawa Prefecture: Yōichi Nakanishi
 - Iwate Prefecture: Tadashi Chida
 - Kagawa Prefecture: Masanori Kaneko
 - Kagoshima Prefecture: Katsushi Terazono
 - Kanagawa Prefecture: Iwataro Uchiyama
 - Kochi Prefecture: Masumi Mizobuchi
 - Kumamoto Prefecture: Kōsaku Teramoto
 - Kyoto Prefecture: Torazō Ninagawa
 - Mie Prefecture: Satoru Tanaka
 - Miyagi Prefecture: Yoshio Miura (until 8 February); Shintaro Takahashi (starting 31 March)
 - Miyazaki Prefecture: Hiroshi Kuroki
 - Nagano Prefecture: Gon'ichirō Nishizawa
 - Nagasaki Prefecture: Katsuya Sato
 - Nara Prefecture: Ryozo Okuda
 - Niigata Prefecture: Juichiro Tsukada
 - Oita Prefecture: Kaoru Kinoshita
 - Okayama Prefecture: Takenori Kato
 - Osaka Prefecture: Gisen Satō
 - Saga Prefecture: Sunao Ikeda
 - Saitama Prefecture: Hiroshi Kurihara
 - Shiga Prefecture: Kyujiro Taniguchi
 - Shiname Prefecture: Choemon Tanabe
 - Shizuoka Prefecture: Toshio Saitō
 - Tochigi Prefecture: Nobuo Yokokawa
 - Tokushima Prefecture: Kikutaro Hara (until 15 September); Yasunobu Takeichi (starting 9 October)
 - Tokyo: Ryōtarō Azuma
 - Tottori Prefecture: Jirō Ishiba
 - Toyama Prefecture: Minoru Yoshida
 - Wakayama Prefecture: Shinji Ono
 - Yamagata Prefecture: Tōkichi Abiko
 - Yamaguchi Prefecture: Masayuki Hashimoto
 - Yamanashi Prefecture: Hisashi Amano
 
Events
    
- February 14 - An All Nippon Airways Douglas DC-3 aircraft crashes into Mount Nakanoone in Shizuoka Prefecture, killing both occupants of the plane.
 - February 22 - A gas explosion at a coal mine in Hokkaido kills 61.
 - June 1 - Coal mine explosion in Fukuoka Prefecture kills 237.
 - June 22 - Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea signed in Tokyo.
 - August 1 - According to an official confirmed report from the Japan Coast Guard, the cruise ship Yasoshima Maru collided with a runaway tugboat and capsized in Osaka Bay, total 20 passenger and crew were lost to lives.
 - September 18 - Comet Ikeya–Seki first sighted by Japanese astronomers.
 - October 7 - Seven Japanese fishing boat capsized near Agrihan Island by Typhoon Carmen, According to an official confirmed report from the JCG, total 209 crew were fatalities.
 - October 15 - Meijō Line begins operations.
 - Unknown date – Kyoto Sangyo University was founded.
 
Births
    
- January 5 - Rei Sakuma, voice actress
 - January 14 - Shouhei Kusaka (Born Hiroshi Tokoro), actor of 1989 Metal Hero Series Kidou Keiji Jiban.
 - February 18 – Masaki Saito, former professional baseball pitcher
 - March 20 - Taeko Kawata, voice actress
 - March 21 - Wakana Yamazaki, voice actress
 - April 15 - Sōichi Noguchi, astronaut
 - April 22 - Arihiro Hase, actor and voice actor (d. 1996)
 - May 2 - Aohisa Takayasu, actor of 1992 Super Sentai Series Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger.
 - May 8 - Momoko Sakura, Japanese manga artist (Chibi Maruko-chan) (d. 2018)
 - May 10 - Kiyoyuki Yanada, voice actor
 - May 13 - Hikari Ōta, comedian
 - May 23 - Kappei Yamaguchi, voice actor
 - May 24 - Shinichiro Watanabe, anime director
 - May 31 - Yōko Sōmi, voice actress
 - June 6 - Megumi Ogata, voice actress and singer
 - June 11 - Yasuko Sawaguchi, actress
 - July 3 - Shinya Hashimoto, professional wrestler (d. 2005)
 - July 13 - Akina Nakamori, pop singer and actress.
 - August 2 - Hisanobu Watanabe, baseball player and coach
 - August 18
- Kōji Kikkawa, singer
 - Ikue Ōtani, voice actress
 
 - August 28 - Satoshi Tajiri, video game designer, creator of Pokémon
 - September 27 - Robert Baldwin, actor
 - October 4 - Michiko Neya, voice actress
 - October 7 - Kumiko Watanabe, voice actress
 - November 20 
- Yoshiki Hayashi, rock composer, pianist and drummer (X Japan)
 - Takeshi Kusao, voice actor
 
 - November 21 - Yuriko Yamaguchi, voice actress
 - November 29 - Yutaka Ozaki, songwriter and rock star (d. 1992)
 - November 30 - Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan
 - December 7 - Teruyuki Kagawa, actor
 - December 8 - Kotono Mitsuishi, voice actress
 - December 26 - Toshihide Wakamatsu, actor of 1991 Super Sentai Series Chojin Sentai Jetman.
 
Deaths
    
- March 4 – Hachirō Arita, politician (b. 1884)
 - July 19 – Haruo Umezaki, writer (b. 1915)
 - July 28 – Rampo Edogawa, author and critic (b. 1894)
 - July 30 – Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, writer, novelist (b. 1886)
 - August 13 – Hayato Ikeda, Prime Minister (b. 1899)
 - December 27 – Morita Fukui, lawyer, prosecutor, politician and first Commissioner of baseball in Japan (b. 1885)
 - December 29 – Kosaku Yamada, composer and conductor (b. 1886)
 
References
    
- "Hirohito | Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
 
    This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.
