1971 in Japan

1971 in Japan
Events in the year 1971 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 46 (昭和46年) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
Emperor: Hirohito
Prime minister: Eisaku Satō (Liberal Democratic)
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Shigeru Hori until July 5, Noboru Takeshita
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Kazuto Ishida
President of the House of Representatives: Naka Funada
President of the House of Councillors: Yūzō Shigemune until July 17, Kenzō Kōno
Governors
Aichi Prefecture: Mikine Kuwahara
Akita Prefecture: Yūjirō Obata
Aomori Prefecture: Shunkichi Takeuchi
Chiba Prefecture: Taketo Tomonō
Ehime Prefecture: Sadatake Hisamatsu (until 27 January); Haruki Shiraishi (starting 28 January)
Fukui Prefecture: Heidayū Nakagawa
Fukuoka Prefecture: Hikaru Kamei
Fukushima Prefecture: Morie Kimura
Gifu Prefecture: Saburō Hirano
Gunma Prefecture: Konroku Kanda
Hiroshima Prefecture: Iduo Nagano
Hokkaido: Kingo Machimura (until 23 April); Naohiro Dōgakinai (starting 23 April)
Hyogo Prefecture: Tokitada Sakai
Ibaraki Prefecture: Nirō Iwakami
Ishikawa Prefecture: Yōichi Nakanishi
Iwate Prefecture: Tadashi Chida
Kagawa Prefecture: Masanori Kaneko
Kagoshima Prefecture: Saburō Kanemaru
Kanagawa Prefecture: Bunwa Tsuda
Kochi Prefecture: Masumi Mizobuchi
Kumamoto Prefecture: Kōsaku Teramoto (until 10 February); Issei Sawada (starting 11 February)
Kyoto Prefecture: Torazō Ninagawa
Mie Prefecture: Satoru Tanaka
Miyagi Prefecture: Sōichirō Yamamoto
Miyazaki Prefecture: Hiroshi Kuroki
Nagano Prefecture: Gon'ichirō Nishizawa
Nagasaki Prefecture: Kan'ichi Kubo
Nara Prefecture: Ryozo Okuda
Niigata Prefecture: Shiro Watari
Oita Prefecture: Kaoru Kinoshita (until 27 April); Masaru Taki (starting 28 April)
Okayama Prefecture: Takenori Kato
Osaka Prefecture: Gisen Satō (until 22 April); Ryōichi Kuroda (starting 23 April)
Saga Prefecture: Sunao Ikeda
Saitama Prefecture: Hiroshi Kurihara
Shiga Prefecture: Kinichiro Nozaki
Shiname Prefecture: Choemon Tanabe (until 29 April); Seiji Tsunematsu (starting 30 April)
Shizuoka Prefecture: Yūtarō Takeyama
Tochigi Prefecture: Nobuo Yokokawa
Tokushima Prefecture: Yasunobu Takeichi
Tokyo: Ryōkichi Minobe
Tottori Prefecture: Jirō Ishiba
Toyama Prefecture: Kokichi Nakada
Wakayama Prefecture: Masao Ohashi
Yamagata Prefecture: Tōkichi Abiko
Yamaguchi Prefecture: Masayuki Hashimoto
Yamanashi Prefecture: Kunio Tanabe
Events
January 2 - A ryokan fire in Wakayama kills 16 people and injures 15.
March Unknown date – Nagase Upbright Cram School, as predecessor of Nagase Brothers Group was founded in Mitaka, Tokyo.
March 4 - A Lake Kawaguchi to Otsuki local train collision with truck in Fujikyu Line, Fujiyoshida, Yamanashi Prefecture, according to Japan Transport Ministry official confirmed report, 17 person were lost to lives, with 69 person were wounded.
April 1 – Apa Group founded, as predecessor name was Shinkin Developer in Komatsu, Ishikawa Prefecture.
April 27 - A massive forest fire in Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture, according to Fire and Disaster Management Agency confirmed report, 18 firefighter were lost their lives.
July 3 - Toa Domestic Airlines Flight 63 crash into Mount Yokotsu, Hakodate, Hokkaido, according to Japan Transport Ministry official confirmed report, all 68 person were lost to lives.
July 18 - A heavy torrential rain, wide range affective landslide, debris flow, bridge collapse around Aioi and Sayo, Hyogo Prefecture, 19 person were lost to lives, 26 persons were wounded, according to Japan Fire and Disaster Management Agency official confirmed report.
July 20 - A first McDonald's fast food outlet open in Japan at Ginza, Tokyo.
July 30 - An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 collides with a Japanese fighter jet, resulting in a loss of 162 lives.
October 25 - Collision of two limited express trains on the Kintetsu Osaka Line in Hakusan (now Tsu) in Mie Prefecture. Casualties include 25 dead and 227 wounded.
November 11 - A slope failure field site collapsed during an experiment in Tama-ku, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. According to a Japan Fire and Disaster Management Agency confirmed report, 15 persons lost their lives, 10 persons were wounded.
Births
January 2 - Yutaka Takenouchi, actor
January 4
Junichi Kakizaki, botanist and floral designer
Hiroyuki Sato, professional baseball player
Futoshi Yamabe, professional baseball player
January 5 - Mayuko Takata, actress
January 6 - Mitsuru Manaka, professional baseball player
January 8 - Kenjiro Kawasaki, professional baseball player
January 17 - Youki Kudo, actress
January 19 – Tamayo Marukawa, politician, cabinet minister, representative and former TV announcer
January 20 - Masaru Hanada, sumo, 66th generation Yokozuna
January 23
Kaori Kawamura, singer (d. 2009)
Akira Ota, professional baseball player
January 27 - Tomoefuji Toshihide, sumo,
January 31 - Yasuo Manaka, soccer player
February 2 – Kiyoshi Toyoda, former professional baseball pitcher
February 14
Risa Hirako, model
Noriko Sakai, pop singer and actress
February 22 – Etsuko Kozakura, voice actress
March 2 - Manami Toyota, professional wrestler
March 4 - Satoshi Motoyama, professional racing driver
March 6 - Maguro Fujita, manga artist
March 10
Ryu Fujisaki, manga artist
Tsubuyaki Shirō, comedian
March 13 - Tsutomu Nishino, football player
March 15 - Risa Junna, actress and singer
March 16 - Tae Kimura, actress
March 17 - Masataka Gōda, professional shogi player
March 20 - Shinichiro Ohta, voice actor and TV announcer
March 24 - Shinichi Hatori, free announcer, tarento, and TV presenter
March 26 - Moyoco Anno, manga artist
March 29
Shizuka Ishikawa, voice actress
Hidetoshi Nishijima, actor
April 2
Makoto Hasegawa, basketball player
Cunning Takeyama comedian and actor.
Zeebra, rapper
April 5
Takami Itō, author
Ayako Nishikawa, cosmetic surgeon
April 8 - Yoshinobu Ohga, musician
April 12 - Takako Katō, basketball player
April 18 - Junya Ogawa, politician
April 22 - Daisuke Enomoto, would-be first Japanese space tourist
April 23 - Shigetoshi Hasebe, football player and manager
April 26 - Naoki Tanaka, comedian, actor and presenter
May 2
Musashimaru Kōyō, sumo wrestler
Shu Takumi, creator of Ace Attorney
May 3 - Ryo Kawano, baseball player
May 9 - Hiroki Azuma, cultural critic, novelist, and philosopher
May 11 – Tsutomu Iwamoto, former professional baseball pitcher
May 12
Kayoko Okubo, comedian, tarento and actress
Nao Nagasawa, voice actress
May 14 - Takashi Kashiwada, baseball player
May 20 - Yasuko Mitsuura, comedian
May 21 - Yoshikazu Mera, countertenor
May 24 - Taizō Mikazuki, politician and governor
May 25 - Kōtarō Isaka, author
May 26 - Takuro, musician
May 28 - Miho Otani, JMSDF officer
June 5
Miyuki Komatsu, actress
Tomoko Nakajima, actress
June 8 - Teru, musician and singer
June 10 - Tadashi Nakamura, footballer
June 11 - Kenjiro Tsuda, voice actor
June 14 - Ken Maeda, comedian, impressionist, and actor
June 18 - Yoshiyuki Shinoda, footballer and manager
June 23 - Katsuhiro Maeda, baseball player
June 24 - Toshihiro Noguchi, baseball player
June 27 - Shizuka Ochi, actress
June 28 - Norika Fujiwara, actress and television personality
June 29 - Junko Noda, voice actress
July 1 - Yusuke Torigoe, baseball player
July 17 - Ritsuko Tanaka, actress and singer.
July 19 - Naoki Soma, footballer
July 23 - Noriko Mizoguchi, judoka
July 24 - Tetsuji Nakamura, politician
July 26 - Kazuki Sakuraba, author
August 25 - Ayumi Miyazaki, singer
September 2 – Fumie Hosokawa, actress
September 7 - Tomomi Okazaki, speed skater
September 10 - Tomo Sakurai, voice actress
September 12 – Atsuko Wakai, karateka
October 1 - Tatsuya Ide, baseball player
October 4 - Toshihisa Nishi, former professional baseball player
October 6 - GaaSyy, businessman and politician
October 8 - Hiroki Kokubo, baseball player
October 25 - Midori Gotō, violinist
November 12 - Yasuo Aiuchi, snowboarder
November 29 - Naoko Mori, actress
December 2 - Mine Yoshizaki, Manga artist
December 28 - Machiko Toyoshima, voice actress
December 30 – Daisuke Motoki, former professional baseball player
Deaths
February 26 – Yahei Miura, athlete (b. 1895)
April 20 – Hyakken Uchida, author, writer and academic (b. 1889)
October 21 – Naoya Shiga, novelist and short story writer (b. 1883)
See also
1971 in Japanese football
1971 in Japanese television
List of Japanese films of 1971
References
1970s in Japan
1971 by country
Years of the 20th century in Japan
1971 in Asia