1959 in Japan
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Events in the year1959 inJapan.
Incumbents
[edit]Governors
[edit]- Aichi Prefecture:Mikine Kuwahara
- Akita Prefecture:Yūjirō Obata
- Aomori Prefecture:Iwao Yamazaki
- Chiba Prefecture:Hitoshi Shibata
- Ehime Prefecture:Sadatake Hisamatsu
- Fukui Prefecture:Seiichi Hane(until 22 April);Eizō Kita(starting 23 April)
- Fukuoka Prefecture:Taichi Uzaki
- Fukushima Prefecture:Zenichiro Satō
- Gifu Prefecture:Yukiyasu Matsuno
- Gunma Prefecture:Toshizo Takekoshi
- Hiroshima Prefecture:Hiroo Ōhara
- Hokkaido:Toshifumi Tanaka(until 22 April);Kingo Machimura(starting 23 April)
- Hyogo Prefecture:Masaru Sakamoto
- Ibaraki Prefecture:Yoji Tomosue(until 29 March);Nirō Iwakami(starting 23 April)
- Ishikawa Prefecture:Jūjitsu Taya
- Iwate Prefecture:Senichi Abe
- Kagawa Prefecture:Masanori Kaneko
- Kagoshima Prefecture:Katsushi Terazono
- Kanagawa Prefecture:Iwataro Uchiyama
- Kochi Prefecture:Masumi Mizobuchi
- Kumamoto Prefecture:Saburō Sakurai(until 10 February);Kōsaku Teramoto(starting 11 February)
- Kyoto Prefecture:Torazō Ninagawa
- Mie Prefecture:Satoru Tanaka
- Miyagi Prefecture:Yasushi Onuma(until 12 January);Yoshio Miura(starting 4 March)
- Miyazaki Prefecture:Jingo Futami(until 22 April);Hiroshi Kuroki(starting 23 April)
- Nagano Prefecture:Torao Hayashi(until 22 April);Gon'ichirō Nishizawa(starting 26 April)
- Nagasaki Prefecture:Katsuya Sato
- Nara Prefecture:Ryozo Okuda
- Niigata Prefecture:Kazuo Kitamura
- Oita Prefecture:Kaoru Kinoshita
- Okayama Prefecture:Yukiharu Miki
- Osaka Prefecture:Bunzō Akama(until 22 April);Gisen Satō(starting 23 April)
- Saga Prefecture:Naotsugu Nabeshima(until 16 April);Sunao Ikeda(starting 23 April)
- Saitama Prefecture:Hiroshi Kurihara
- Shiga Prefecture:Kyujiro Taniguchi
- Shiname Prefecture:Yasuo Tsunematsu(until 29 April);Choemon Tanabe(starting 30 April)
- Shizuoka Prefecture:Toshio Saitō
- Tochigi Prefecture:Kiichi Ogawa(until 4 February);Nobuo Yokokawa(starting 5 February)
- Tokushima Prefecture:Kikutaro Hara
- Tokyo:Seiichirō Yasui(until 18 April);Ryōtarō Azuma(starting 22 April)
- Tottori Prefecture:Jirō Ishiba
- Toyama Prefecture:Minoru Yoshida
- Wakayama Prefecture:Shinji Ono
- Yamagata Prefecture:Tōkichi Abiko
- Yamaguchi Prefecture:Taro Ozawa
- Yamanashi Prefecture:Hisashi Amano
Events
[edit]- April 1 – Kyoto Ceramic (nowKyocera) has founded.[page needed]
- April 10 – The Crown PrinceAkihito,the futureEmperor of Japan,wedsMichiko Shōda,the first commoner to marry into theJapanese Imperial Family.
- June 2 –Mori Buildingwas founded.[citation needed]
- June 30 – Twenty-one students are killed and more than a hundred injured when an American North AmericanF-100 Super Sabrejet crashes into Miamori Elementary School on the island ofOkinawa.The pilot ejected before the plane struck the school.[3]
- July 22 – AKumamoto Universitymedical research group studyingMinamata diseaseconcludes that it is caused bymercury.
- September 26 – According toJapanese governmentofficial confirmed report,Typhoon Verawithtidal wavehit aroundIse Bay,total 5,098 person were lives, 38,921 person were hurt.[page needed]
Births
[edit]- January 3 –Dankan,actor and director
- January 16 –Kimiko Ikegami,actress
- January 17 –Momoe Yamaguchi,actress
- February 8 –Amy Yamada,writer
- February 20 –Tomomi Inada,politician
- March 23 –Kazue Ikura,actress, voice actress and narrator
- May 19 –Michiru Shimada,screenwriter (d.2017)
- May 23 –Ryuta Kawashima,neuroscientist
- June 17 –Kazuki Yao,voice actor and actor
- July 17 –Kiyotaka Sugiyama,singer-songwriter
- August 11 –Yoshiaki Murakami,investor
- August 17 –Chika Sakamoto,voice actress
- September 8 –Saeko Shimazu,voice actress
- October 13 –Denny Tamaki,governor of Okinawa Prefecture
- October 21 –Ken Watanabe,actor
- November 21 –Naoko Watanabe,voice actress
- November 24 –Akio Ōtsuka,actor and voice actress
- December 5 –Yoshitomo Nara,artist
- December 6 –Satoru Iwata,video game designer, businessman (d.2015)
Deaths
[edit]- March 7 –Ichirō Hatoyama,politician and 35th Prime Minister of Japan (b.1883)
- April 30 –Kafū Nagai,author, playwright, essayist, and diarist (b.1879)
- June 20 –Hitoshi Ashida,politician and 35th Prime Minister of Japan (b.1887)
- August 9 –Noboru Ishizaki,admiral (b.1893)
References
[edit]- ^"Hirohito | Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts".Encyclopedia Britannica.Retrieved27 March2019.
- ^Helms, Ludger (2012).Poor Leadership and Bad Governance: Reassessing Presidents and Prime Ministers in North America, Europe and Japan.Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 178.ISBN978-0-85793-273-0.
- ^"21 Die as Jet Hits School On Okinawa",Oakland Tribune,June 30, 1959, p1
