1959 in Japan

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Events in the year 1959 in Japan.

Incumbents[]

  • Emperor: Hirohito[1]
  • Prime minister: Nobusuke Kishi[2]

Events[]

  • April 1 – Kyoto Ceramic (now Kyocera) has founded.[page needed]
  • April 10 – The Crown Prince Akihito, the future Emperor of Japan, weds Michiko Shōda, the first commoner to marry into the Japanese Imperial Family.
  • June 2 – Mori Building was founded.[citation needed]
  • June 30 – Twenty-one students are killed and more than a hundred injured when an American North American F-100 Super Sabre jet crashes into Miamori Elementary School on the island of Okinawa. The pilot ejected before the plane struck the school.[3]
  • July 22 – A Kumamoto University medical research group studying Minamata disease concludes that it is caused by mercury.
  • September 26 – According to Japanese government official confirmed report, Typhoon Vera with tidal wave hit around Ise Bay, total 5,098 person were lives, 38,921 person were hurt.[page needed]

Births[]

  • January 3 – Dankan, actor and director
  • January 16 – Kimiko Ikegami, actress
  • January 17 – Momoe Yamaguchi, actress
  • February 8 – Amy Yamada, writer
  • February 20 – Tomomi Inada, politician
  • March 23 – Kazue Ikura, actress, voice actress and narrator
  • May 19 – Michiru Shimada, screenwriter (d. 2017)
  • May 23 – Ryuta Kawashima, neuroscienctist
  • June 17 – Kazuki Yao, voice actor and actor
  • July 17 – Kiyotaka Sugiyama, singer-songwriter
  • August 17 – Chika Sakamoto, voice actress
  • October 13 – Denny Tamaki, governor of Okinawa Prefecture
  • October 21 – Ken Watanabe, actor
  • November 21 – Naoko Watanabe, voice actress
  • November 24 – Akio Ōtsuka, actor and voice actress
  • December 5 – Yoshitomo Nara, artist
  • December 6 – Satoru Iwata, video game designer, businessman (d. 2015)

Deaths[]

  • March 7 – Ichirō Hatoyama, politician and 35th Prime Minister of Japan (b. )
  • April 30 – Kafū Nagai, author, playwright, essayist, and diarist (b. 1879)
  • June 20 – Hitoshi Ashida, politician and 35th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1887)

References[]

  1. ^ "Hirohito | Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  2. ^ Helms, Ludger (2012). Poor Leadership and Bad Governance: Reassessing Presidents and Prime Ministers in North America, Europe and Japan. Edward Elgar Publishing. p. 178. ISBN 978-0-85793-273-0.
  3. ^ "21 Die as Jet Hits School On Okinawa", Oakland Tribune, June 30, 1959, p1
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