1965 in Japan explained

Events from the year 1965 in Japan.

Incumbents

• Emperor

Hirohito^[1]

• 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

• • • • • • 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

• Hokkaido

• • Hyogo Prefecture: Motohiko Kanai Ibaraki Prefecture

• Ishikawa Prefecture

• • • • Iwate Prefecture: Tadashi Chida Kagawa Prefecture: Masanori Kaneko Kagoshima Prefecture: Katsushi Terazono Kanagawa Prefecture

• • Kochi Prefecture: Masumi Mizobuchi Kumamoto Prefecture

• Kyoto Prefecture

• • Mie Prefecture: Satoru Tanaka Miyagi Prefecture

Yoshio Miura (until 8 February); Shintaro Takahashi (starting 31 March)

• • Miyazaki Prefecture: Hiroshi Kuroki Nagano Prefecture

• • • Nagasaki Prefecture: Katsuya Sato Nara Prefecture: Ryozo Okuda Niigata Prefecture

Juichiro Tsukada

• • Oita Prefecture: Kaoru Kinoshita Okayama Prefecture

• Osaka Prefecture

• Saga Prefecture

• Saitama Prefecture

• Shiga Prefecture

• • • • 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

• • • • • • 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hirohito Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts . Encyclopedia Britannica . 27 March 2019 . en.