1970 in Japan

1970 in Japan
Events from the year 1970 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 45 (昭和45年) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
Emperor: Shōwa
Prime Minister: Eisaku Satō (Liberal Democratic)
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Shigeru Hori
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Kazuto Ishida
President of the House of Representatives: Naka Funada from January 14
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: 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
Hyogo Prefecture: Motohiko Kanai (until 23 November); Tokitada Sakai (starting 24 November)
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
Kyoto Prefecture: Torazō Ninagawa
Mie Prefecture: Satoru Tanaka
Miyagi Prefecture: Sōichirō Yamamoto
Miyazaki Prefecture: Hiroshi Kuroki
Nagano Prefecture: Gon'ichirō Nishizawa
Nagasaki Prefecture: Katsuya Sato (until 1 March); Kan'ichi Kubo (starting 2 March)
Nara Prefecture: Ryozo Okuda
Niigata Prefecture: Shiro Watari
Oita Prefecture: Kaoru Kinoshita
Okayama Prefecture: Takenori Kato
Osaka Prefecture: Gisen Satō
Saga Prefecture: Sunao Ikeda
Saitama Prefecture: Hiroshi Kurihara
Shiga Prefecture: Kinichiro Nozaki
Shiname Prefecture: Choemon Tanabe
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
March 15 – September 13 – Expo '70 in Osaka.
March 31 – Hijacking of Japan Airlines Flight 351
April 8 – Gas explosion at subway construction site in Osaka kills 79, injures over 400.
May 13 – According to Japan Coast Guard official confirmed report, a suspicion man shot dead by Japanese authority after two-days, with another all passengers and crew freed, a passenger ferry Prince hijacking off Kurushima Straight, Seto Inland Sea.
June 29 – According to Japan Fire and Disaster Management Agency official confirmed report, a Ryōmō General hospital fire, resulting to 17 person fatalities with 10 person injures, in Sano, Tochigi Prefecture.
October – Mitsubishi Motors is founded. The Mitsubishi keiretsu had already begun making cars as far back as 1917, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries had made many vehicles in the postwar era, but the actual company would not be founded until this date.
November 25 – In Tokyo, author and Tatenokai militia leader Yukio Mishima and his followers take over the headquarters of the Japan Self-Defense Forces in an attempted coup d'état. After Mishima's speech fails to sway public opinion towards his right-wing political beliefs, including restoration of the powers of the Emperor, he commits seppuku (public ritual suicide).
December 20 - Koza riot: a violent and spontaneous protest against the US military presence in Okinawa. Roughly 5,000 Okinawans clashed with roughly 700 American MPs in an event which has been regarded as symbolic of Okinawan anger against 25 years of US military occupation. In the riot, approximately 60 Americans were injured, 80 cars were burned, and several buildings on Kadena Air Base were destroyed or heavily damaged.
Unknown date – Oceanroutes Service Japan was founded, as predecessor of Japan Weather News, a meteorological service in nationwide.
Births
January 19 – Udo Suzuki, comedian
January 30 – Kimiya Yui, astronaut
February 18 – Junko Iwao, voice actress and singer
February 23 – Shoko Aida, J-pop artist and actress
March 1 – Miho Nakayama, singer and actress
March 21 – Shiho Niiyama, voice actress (d. 2000)
April 5 – Miho Hatori, singer-songwriter
April 14 – Shizuka Kudo, pop singer and actress
April 23 – Sadao Abe, actor
April 25 – Tomoko Kawakami, voice actress (d. 2011)
May 25 – Satsuki Yukino, voice actress,
May 26 – Nobuhiro Watsuki, manga artist
June 6 – Yoko Taro, video game designer
June 27 – Yumika Hayashi, pink film actress and AV idol (d. 2005)
August 3 – Masahiro Sakurai, creator of Kirby and Super Smash Bros.
September 8 – Motoko Kumai, voice actress
September 13 – Susumu Chiba, voice actor
September 19
Yuka Imai, voice actress
Takanori Nishikawa, singer
September 25
Aja Kong, professional wrestler
Misa Shimizu, actress
September 26 – Yukio Iketani, gymnast
September 27 – Yoshiharu Habu, professional shogi player
September 28 – Kimiko Date-Krumm, tennis player
September 29 – Yoshihiro Tajiri, professional wrestler
September 30 – Yūto Kazama, voice actor
October 8 – Tetsuya Nomura, video game creator and film director
October 14 – Hiromi Nagasaku, actress and singer
December 27 – Naoko Yamazaki, astronaut
Deaths
January 7 – Ken'ichi Enomoto, comedian and singer (b. 1904)
January 25 – Eiji Tsuburaya, film director and special effects designer (b. 1901)
May 7 – Mosaburō Suzuki, journalist, essayist, and socialist politician (b. 1893)
May 19 – Haruo Oka, ryūkōka singer (b. 1916)
August 12 – Yaso Saijō, lyricist and poetry
November 25
Yukio Mishima, author, poet, and playwright (b. 1925)
Masakatsu Morita, political activist (b. 1945)
See also
1970 in Japanese television
List of Japanese films of 1970
References
1970s in Japan
1970 by country
Years of the 20th century in Japan
1970 in Asia