1975 in Japan

1975 in Japan
Events from the year 1975 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 50 (昭和50年) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
Emperor: Hirohito
Prime Minister: Takeo Miki (Liberal Democratic)
Chief Cabinet Secretary: 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: 75th (regular session opened on December 27, 1974, to July 4), 76th (extraordinary, September 11 to December 25), 77th (regular, December 27 to May 24, 1976)
Governors
Aichi Prefecture: Mikine Kuwahara (until 14 February); Yoshiaki Nakaya (starting 15 February)
Akita Prefecture: Yūjirō Obata
Aomori Prefecture: Shunkichi Takeuchi
Chiba Prefecture: Taketo Tomonō (until 16 April); Kiichi Kawakami (starting 17 April)
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 (until 22 April); Fujio Takeuchi (starting 23 April)
Ishikawa Prefecture: Yōichi Nakanishi
Iwate Prefecture: Tadashi Chida
Kagawa Prefecture: Tadao Maekawa
Kagoshima Prefecture: Saburō Kanemaru
Kanagawa Prefecture: Bunwa Tsuda (until 22 April); Kazuji Nagasu (starting 23 April)
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: Takeo Kimi
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: Masayoshi Takemura
Shiname Prefecture: Seiji Tsunematsu
Shizuoka Prefecture: Keizaburō Yamamoto
Tochigi Prefecture: Yuzuru Funada
Tokushima Prefecture: Yasunobu Takeichi
Tokyo: Ryōkichi Minobe
Tottori Prefecture: Kōzō Hirabayashi
Toyama Prefecture: Kokichi Nakada
Wakayama Prefecture: Masao Ohashi (until 4 October); Shirō Kariya (starting 23 November)
Yamagata Prefecture: Seiichirō Itagaki
Yamaguchi Prefecture: Masayuki Hashimoto
Yamanashi Prefecture: Kunio Tanabe
Events
January 1 – A hotel bus plunges into Lake Aoki in Nagano Prefecture, killing 24.
March 10 – Sanyo Shinkansen officially open between Okayama Station to Hakata Station of Fukuoka.
July 20 – opening of Expo '75 in Okinawa.
August 17–18 – Typhoon Phyllis, where hit on landslide, debris flow, flood swept hit in Kochi Prefecture, Shikoku Island, killing 77 persons and 209 persons injures, according to Japan Fire and Disaster Management official confirmed report.
November 2–8 – 1975 Japan Open Tennis Championships held in Tokyo.
November 3 – Miss International 1975 held at Expo Portside Theater, Motobu, Okinawa.
November 26 to December 3 – Japanese National Railways mandatory implementation an eight-day-long illegal "strike for the right to strike".
December 12 – In Osaka International Airport of Itami, where takeoff and landing of civilian aircraft before 7 o'clock and after 21 o'clock was forbidden, that caused by noise complaints from residents triggered.
December 31 – 17th Japan Record Awards held in Tokyo.
Films
Banned Book: Flesh Futon
Cruelty: Black Rose Torture
Dersu Uzala, directed by Akira Kurosawa
Graveyard of Honor, directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, directed by Tomoharu Katsumata
Kamen Rider Amazon
Kamen Rider Stronger
Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute, directed by Shohei Imamura
Oryu's Passion: Bondage Skin
The Return of the Sister Street Fighter, directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Terror of Mechagodzilla, directed by Ishirō Honda
Tokyo Emmanuelle
Tora-san's Rise and Fall, directed by Yoji Yamada
Tora-san, the Intellectual, directed by Yoji Yamada
A Woman Called Sada Abe, directed by Noboru Tanaka
Births
January 1 – Eiichiro Oda, illustrator and author (One Piece)
January 6 – Yukana, voice actress and singer
January 8 – Reiko Chiba, actress
January 28 – Hiroshi Kamiya, voice actor
January 30 – Yumi Yoshimura, singer (Puffy Amiyumi)
February 6 – Tomoko Kawase, singer
February 16 – Nanase Aikawa, singer
February 17 – Michiko Kichise, actress
February 10 – Hiroki Kuroda, baseball pitcher
February 25 – Chiemi Chiba, voice actress
April 3
Koji Uehara, baseball pitcher
Yoshinobu Takahashi, professional baseball player
April 14 – Takayoshi Tanimoto, singer
April 16 – Megumi Ōhara, voice actress
April 27 – Kazuyoshi Funaki, ski jumper
May 19 – Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro, manga artist (Seikimatsu Leader den Takeshi!, Toriko)
May 26 – Tsuruno Takeshi, actor and singer
June 22 – Yuka Itaya, actress
July 5 – Ai Sugiyama, tennis player
July 11 – Riona Hazuki, actress
July 22 – Kenshin Kawakami, baseball pitcher
August 1 – Ryoko Yonekura, actress
August 11 – Kishō Taniyama, voice actor
August 24 – Hayato Sakurai, martial artist
August 28 – Yūko Gotō, voice actress
September 6 – Ryoko Tani, judoka
November 11 – Daisuke Ohata, rugby union player
November 15 – Hiromi Ominami, long-distance runner
November 16 – Yuki Uchida, actress
December 12 – Kuwashima Houko, voice actress
December 15 – Haruna Ikezawa, actress and voice actress
December 16 – Masaki Sumitani, television performer
December 30 – Yoma Komatsu, singer
Deaths
February 11 – Hideo Shinojima, footballer (b. 1910)
May 30 – Tatsuo Shimabuku, martial artist and founder of Isshin-ryu karate (b. 1908)
June 3 – Eisaku Satō, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1901)
November 20 – Tokushichi Mishima, inventor and engineer (b. 1893)
See also
1975 in Japanese television
List of Japanese films of 1975
References
1970s in Japan
1975 by country
Years of the 20th century in Japan
1975 in Asia