1965 in Japan

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)
See also
1965 in Japanese television
List of Japanese films of 1965
References
1960s in Japan
1965 by country
Years of the 20th century in Japan
1965 in Asia