1975 in Japan

← 1974 1973 1972 1975 in Japan → 1976 1977 1978
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See also:	Other events of 1975 History of Japan  • Timeline  • Years

Events from the year 1975 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 50 (昭和50年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents[]

• Emperor: Hirohito^[1]
• 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 in 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); (starting 15 February)
• Akita Prefecture:
• Aomori Prefecture:
• Chiba Prefecture: (until 16 April); (starting 17 April)
• Ehime Prefecture:
• Fukui Prefecture:
• Fukuoka Prefecture:
• Fukushima Prefecture:
• Gifu Prefecture:
• Gunna Prefecture:
• Hiroshima Prefecture: Hiroshi Miyazawa
• Hokkaido: Naohiro Dōgakinai
• Hyogo Prefecture:
• Ibaraki Prefecture: (until 22 April); (starting 23 April)
• Ishikawa Prefecture: Yōichi Nakanishi
• Iwate Prefecture:
• Kagawa Prefecture:
• Kagoshima Prefecture:
• Kanagawa Prefecture: (until 22 April); (starting 23 April)
• Kochi Prefecture: (until 6 December); (starting 7 December)
• Kumamoto Prefecture:
• Kyoto Prefecture:
• Mie Prefecture:
• Miyagi Prefecture: Sōichirō Yamamoto
• Miyazaki Prefecture: Hiroshi Kuroki
• Nagano Prefecture: Gon'ichirō Nishizawa
• Nagasaki Prefecture:
• Nara Prefecture:
• Niigata Prefecture:
• Oita Prefecture:
• Okayama Prefecture:
• Okinawa Prefecture: Chōbyō Yara
• Osaka Prefecture: Ryōichi Kuroda
• Saga Prefecture:
• Saitama Prefecture: Yawara Hata
• Shiga Prefecture: Masayoshi Takemura
• Shiname Prefecture:
• Shizuoka Prefecture:
• Tochigi Prefecture:
• Tokushima Prefecture:
• Tokyo:
• Tottori Prefecture:
• Toyama Prefecture:
• Wakayama Prefecture: (until 4 October); (starting 23 November)
• Yamagata Prefecture:
• Yamaguchi Prefecture:
• Yamanashi Prefecture:

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.^{[page needed]}
• July 20 – opening of Expo '75 in Okinawa.
• 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".^[2]
• 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.^[3]
• 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 17 – Michiko Kichise, actress
• February 10 – Hiroki Kuroda, baseball pitcher
• April 3
  • Koji Uehara, baseball pitcher
  • Yoshinobu Takahashi, professional baseball player
• April 27 – Kazuyoshi Funaki, ski jumper
• May 19 – Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro, manga artist (Seikimatsu Leader den Takeshi!, Toriko)
• June 22 – Yuka Itaya, actress
• July 5 – Ai Sugiyama, tennis player
• 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 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[]