# 1965 in Japan

Events from the year 1965 in Japan.

## Incumbents

* Emperor: Hirohito
* 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)