# 2025 in Japan

Events in the year 2025 in Japan.

## Incumbents

* Emperor: Naruhito
* Prime Minister: Shigeru Ishiba (Liberal Democratic)

## Arts and entertainment

* 2025 in anime
* 2025 in Japanese music
* 2025 in Japanese television
* List of 2025 box office number-one films in Japan
* List of Japanese films of 2025

## Events
### January

* January 3 – U.S. President Joe Biden blocks the proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel by Nippon Steel.
* January 10 – Eight students are injured in a hammer attack inside the Tama campus of Hosei University in Machida, Tokyo. A 22-year old South Korean national is arrested.
* January 22 – One person is killed while two others are injured in a knife attack outside Nagano Station.
* January 27 – Koichi Minato and Shuji Kanoh resign as the respective president and chair of Fuji Television amid criticism over the network's handling of a sexual abuse scandal involving television personality Masahiro Nakai.
* January 28 – A sinkhole appears in a road intersection in Yashio, Saitama, swallowing up a truck being driven by an elderly man who remains missing.
* January 29 – Japan suspends funding for the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women in response to its publication of a report in 2024 calling for the revision of Japanese imperial succession law to allow women to become empresses regnant.

### February

* February 3 – Former MP Tamotsu Shiiki is sentenced to a five-year suspended prison sentence for raping an underage girl at a karaoke parlor in Tokyo in August 2024.
* February 17 – The Taliban conducts a diplomatic visit to Japan for the first time since taking power in Afghanistan in 2021.
* February 19 – Ryūji Kimura is convicted and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment for the attempted assassination of Fumio Kishida in 2023.
* February 21 – The Cabinet approves a bill to allow bears spotted in urban areas to be shot at hunters' discretion following an increase in encounters and attacks on humans.
* February 26 – The Ōfunato wildfire starts in Iwate Prefecture. The Fire and Disaster Management Agency estimates over 80 homes have been destroyed.
* February 27 – The body of a man is found by police on a road within the Ōfunato wildfire evacuation zone.
* February 28 – The Ōfunato wildfire grows to cover over 1,200 ha (3,000 acres), making it the largest wildfire on record in Japan.

### March

* 4 March –
** The Ōfunato wildfire reaches 2,600 ha (6,400 acres) with over 2,000 firefighters from 14 prefectures fighting the blaze.
** Yuji Iwasawa is elected as President of the International Court of Justice.
* 7 March – The Nagoya High Court rules that the non-recognition of same-sex marriage in Japan is unconstitutional and discriminatory.
* 14 March – NHK Party leader Takashi Tachibana is injured in a stabbing while giving a speech in front of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in Tokyo. The attacker, who confesses an intention to kill Tachibana, is arrested at the scene.

### Scheduled and upcoming events

* April 13 – October 13 – Expo 2025 will be held in Osaka.
* July 27 – 2025 Japanese House of Councillors election

## Sports

* September 13–21 – The 2025 World Athletics Championships will be held in Tokyo.
* April 6 – 2025 Formula One World Championship is held at 2025 Japanese Grand Prix
* May 17–18 – 2024–25 Formula E World Championship is held at 2025 Tokyo ePrix
* September 28 – 2025 MotoGP World Championship is held at 2025 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix
* 2025 F4 Japanese Championship
* 2025 Super Formula Championship
* 2025 Super Formula Lights
* 2025 Super GT Series
* 2025 in Japanese football
* 2025 J1 League
* 2025 J2 League
* 2025 J3 League
* 2025 Japan Football League
* 2025 Japanese Regional Leagues
* 2025 Japanese Super Cup
* 2025 Emperor's Cup
* 2025 J.League Cup

## Deaths
### January

* January 1:
** Nagano Hull, professional boxing manager (b. 1925)
** Setsuko Tamaki, peace activist, former Himeyuri alumni association president (b. 1926)
* January 3:
** Hiroshi Hara, architect (b. 1936)
** Yuji Sawa, politician, MP (b. 1948)
* January 4:
** Riro, sea otter (b. 2007)
** Kanoko Tsutani-Mabuchi, Olympic diver (b. 1938)
* January 9 - MAYA MAXX, painter (b. 1961)
* January 16 - Shoji Ueda, cinematographer (b. 1938)
* January 21 - Keiichi Suzuki, speed skater (b. 1942)
* January 25 - Ikujiro Nonaka, theorist and academician (b. 1935)
* January 26 - Kazuyoshi Akiyama, conductor (b. 1941)
* January 28 - Takuro Morinaga, economist (b. 1957)
* January 29 - Atomu Shimojō, actor (b. 1946)

### February

* February 2 - Nobumasa Konagai [ja], manga editor (b. 1930)
* February 3 - Yoshio Yoshida, baseball player (b. 1933)
* February 16 - Osamu Miyawaki, businessman, founder of anime figure manufacturer Kaiyodo (b. 1928)
* February 28
** Osamu Nishimura, professional wrestler (b. 1971)
** Ayako Sono, novelist (b. 1931)

### March

* March 1 - Monta Mino, television presenter (b. 1944)
* March 11 - Ayumi Ishida, singer (b. 1948)