1974 in Japan

1974 in Japan
Events in the year 1974 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 49 (昭和49年) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
Emperor: Hirohito
Prime minister: Kakuei Tanaka (Liberal Democratic) until December 9, Takeo Miki (Liberal Democratic)
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Susumu Nikaido until November 11, Noboru Takeshita until December 9, Ichitaro Ide
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Tomokazu Murakami
President of the House of Representatives: Shigesaburō Maeo
President of the House of Councillors: Kenzō Kōno
Diet sessions: 72nd (regular session opened on December 1, 1973, to June 3), 73rd (extraordinary, July 24 to July 31), 74th (extraordinary, December 9 to December 25), 75th (regular, December 27 to July 4, 1975)
Governors
Aichi Prefecture: Mikine Kuwahara
Akita Prefecture: Yūjirō Obata
Aomori Prefecture: Shunkichi Takeuchi
Chiba Prefecture: Taketo Tomonō
Ehime Prefecture: Haruki Shiraishi
Fukui Prefecture: Heidayū Nakagawa
Fukuoka Prefecture: Hikaru Kamei
Fukushima Prefecture: Morie Kimura
Gifu Prefecture: Saburō Hirano
Gunma Prefecture: Konroku Kanda
Hiroshima Prefecture: Hiroshi Miyazawa
Hokkaido: Naohiro Dōgakinai
Hyogo Prefecture: Tokitada Sakai
Ibaraki Prefecture: Nirō Iwakami
Ishikawa Prefecture: Yōichi Nakanishi
Iwate Prefecture: Tadashi Chida
Kagawa Prefecture: Masanori Kaneko (until 4 September); Tadao Maekawa (starting 5 September)
Kagoshima Prefecture: Saburō Kanemaru
Kanagawa Prefecture: Bunwa Tsuda
Kochi Prefecture: Masumi Mizobuchi (until 6 December); Chikara Nakauchi (starting 7 December)
Kumamoto Prefecture: Issei Sawada
Kyoto Prefecture: Torazō Ninagawa
Mie Prefecture: Ryōzō Tagawa
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 (until 30 April); Takeo Kimi (starting 1 May)
Oita Prefecture: Masaru Taki
Okayama Prefecture: Shiro Nagano
Okinawa Prefecture: Chōbyō Yara
Osaka Prefecture: Ryōichi Kuroda
Saga Prefecture: Sunao Ikeda
Saitama Prefecture: Yawara Hata
Shiga Prefecture: Kinichiro Nozaki (until 6 December); Masayoshi Takemura (starting 7 December)
Shiname Prefecture: Seiji Tsunematsu
Shizuoka Prefecture: Yūtarō Takeyama (until 24 June); Keizaburō Yamamoto (starting 10 July)
Tochigi Prefecture: Nobuo Yokokawa (until 7 December); Yuzuru Funada (starting 8 December)
Tokushima Prefecture: Yasunobu Takeichi
Tokyo: Ryōkichi Minobe
Tottori Prefecture: Jirō Ishiba (until 22 February); Kōzō Hirabayashi (starting 27 March)
Toyama Prefecture: Kokichi Nakada
Wakayama Prefecture: Masao Ohashi
Yamagata Prefecture: Seiichirō Itagaki
Yamaguchi Prefecture: Masayuki Hashimoto
Yamanashi Prefecture: Kunio Tanabe
Events
May 9 - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes the Izu Peninsula, killing 30 and injuring 102.
May 27 – Keyence was founded.
June 20 – Daito Industry, as predecessor of Daito Trust Construction founded in Chikusa-ku, Nagoya.
July 7 to 8 – According to Fire and Disaster Management Agency official confirmed report, a torrential heavy massibie rain, following debris flow and devee collapse hit in eastern Shizuoka Prefecture, 50 persons were human fatalities.
August 30 - A powerful bomb blast in Marunouchi business area, Tokyo, according to official confirmed resulting, 8 person fatalities, 376 were injures.
November 9 - A LPG carrier, Juyo Maru 10 collision with Liberian cargo ship Pacific Ares, following caught fire in Tokyo Bay, according to Marine Safety Agency of Japan confirmed official, 33 persons lost to lives.
December 18 – According to Japanese government official confirmed report, A petroleum tank broken in Mizushima refinery, Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, in affective 80,000 litter crude oil spill and contamination tide was widely Seto Inland Sea area, these place recoveries spend for more two years.
Births
January 5 - Yutaka Yoshie, professional wrestler
January 29 – Taketo Aoki, baseball player
February 7 -
Jun Seba, aka Nujabes, hip-hop producer
Yō Yoshida, actress
February 27 - Hiroyasu Shimizu, speed skater
March 12 – Hekiru Shiina, voice actress and singer
March 28 - Daisuke Kishio, voice actor
June 13 - Takahiro Sakurai, voice actor
June 17 - Mikiyo Ōno, model, actress and J-pop singer
July 2 -Kiyohiko Shibukawa, fashion model and actor
August 4 – Wasabi Mizuta, voice actress
September 29 – Hirofmi Ono, businessman (a CEO of live storming entertainment)
October 8 - Koji Murofushi, hammer thrower
November 8 - Masashi Kishimoto, manga author
December 4 - Tadahito Iguchi, baseball player
December 27 - Fumiko Orikasa, voice actress and singer
Deaths
March 1 – Kōtarō Tanaka, jurist and law professor (b. 1890)
April 12 – Kimiko Tsumura, Noh traditional performer (b. 1902)
August 11 – Fusako Kitashirakawa, seventh daughter of Emperor Meiji (b. 1890)
December 24 – Sentarō Ōmori, admiral (b. 1892)
See also
1974 in Japanese television
List of Japanese films of 1974
References
1970s in Japan
1974 by country
Years of the 20th century in Japan
1974 in Asia