1959_in_Japan
1959 in Japan
List of events
Events in the year 1959 in Japan.
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Governors
- 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
- April 1 – Kyoto Ceramic (now Kyocera) has founded.[page needed]
- April 10 – The Crown Prince Akihito, the future Emperor of Japan, weds Michiko Shōda, the first commoner to marry into the Japanese Imperial Family.
- June 2 – Mori Building was founded.[citation needed]
- June 30 – Twenty-one students are killed and more than a hundred injured when an American North American F-100 Super Sabre jet crashes into Miamori Elementary School on the island of Okinawa. The pilot ejected before the plane struck the school.[3]
- July 22 – A Kumamoto University medical research group studying Minamata disease concludes that it is caused by mercury.
- September 26 – According to Japanese government official confirmed report, Typhoon Vera with tidal wave hit around Ise Bay, total 5,098 person were lives, 38,921 person were hurt.[page needed]
- 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)
- 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)
- "Hirohito | Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- Helms, Ludger (2012). Poor Leadership and Bad Governance: Reassessing Presidents and Prime Ministers in North America, Europe and Japan. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 178. ISBN 978-0-85793-273-0.
- "21 Die as Jet Hits School On Okinawa", Oakland Tribune, June 30, 1959, p1