2001 in Japan

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Events in the year 2001 in Japan. It corresponds to the year Heisei 13 (平成１３年 or 平成十三年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents[]

  • Emperor: Akihito[1]
  • Prime Minister: Yoshiro Mori (L–Ishikawa) until April 26, Junichiro Koizumi (L–Kanagawa)
  • Chief Cabinet Secretary: Yasuo Fukuda (L–Gunma)
  • Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
  • Speaker of the House of Representatives: Tamisuke Watanuki (L–Toyama)
  • President of the House of Councillors: (L–Chiba), reelected August 7
  • Diet sessions: 151st (regular, January 31 to June 29), 152nd (extraordinary, August 7 to August 10), 153rd (extraordinary, September 27 to December 7)

Events[]

Junichiro Koizumi became prime minister in April.

January[]

  • January 6: Nurse Daisuke Mori arrested for an attempted murder of 11-year-old girl.[2]
  • January 26: A JR yamanote line train coming into Shin-Ōkubo Station hits and kills a man who fell off the platform and two others who jumped onto the rails to rescue him.
  • January 31: 2001 Japan Airlines mid-air incident

February[]

  • February 9: The fishing boat Ehime Maru is struck by a U.S. submarine and sunk.

March[]

  • March 24: 2001 Geiyo earthquake, kill two people with injure 288 in Hiroshima and Ehime.[citation needed]
  • March 27: Hikaru Saeki became the first female star officer (admiral and general) in the history of the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF).[3]
  • March 31: Universal Studios Japan opens in Osaka.

April[]

  • April 1: Sakura Bank and Sumitomo Bank merge to form Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.
  • April 6: Japanese government institutes new overtime regulations.
  • April 24: Junichiro Koizumi defeats Ryutaro Hashimoto in LDP polls to become prime minister.
  • April 26: Koizumi announces his first cabinet, with Makiko Tanaka as foreign minister and Heizo Takenaka as Minister of State for the Economy.

June[]

July[]

  • July 13: Osaka is removed on the first ballot for the site of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
  • July 20: Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away premieres; it becomes the first anime film to win an Academy Award.
  • July 29: 2001 Japanese House of Councillors election.

August[]

  • August 13: Koizumi visits Yasukuni Shrine, angering China and South Korea.
  • August 16–26: The sixth World Games are held in Akita.
  • August 29: The first H-IIA rocket is launched from Tanegashima Space Center.

September[]

  • September 1: Myojo 56 building fire kills 44.
  • September 4: Tokyo DisneySea opens.
  • September 11: The first case of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in Japan is discovered.
  • September 12: In the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, the Nikkei 225 index drops below 10,000 for the first time since 1984.

October[]

  • October 1: Ghibli Museum opens.
  • October 18: The East Japan Railway Company introduces the Suica smart card service to the Tokyo area.

December[]

  • December 1: Princess Aiko, potential heiress to the Imperial throne, is born.
  • December 9: Television performer Masashi Tashiro is arrested for peeping in a male bath-house.
  • December 21: TIME removes Masashi Tashiro from its "Person of the Year" poll after 2channel users vote the "bad boy" performer into first place.

Births[]

  • January 2: Wakaba Higuchi, figure skater
  • February 2: Maria Makino, pop singer
  • February 4: Fūka Haruna, actress
  • May 24: Noa Tsurushima, actress
  • May 28: Rikako Sasaki, singer
  • June 18: Nako Yabuki, singer
  • June 19: Natsumi Sakai, swimmer
  • June 25: Yurina Hirate, idol singer
  • August 4: Seishiro Kato, actor
  • August 31: Nana Mori, actress
  • October 1: Pankun, chimpanzee
  • October 6: Hitomi Honda, singer
  • December 1: Princess Aiko, the daughter and only child of Crown Prince Naruhito, heir apparent to the Japanese throne, and Crown Princess Masako

Deaths[]

  • March 9: Mitsuo Kagawa, archaeologist (b. 1923)
  • April 7: Yasuhira Kiyohara, lieutenant of the Imperial army (b. 1914)
  • May 17: Hyōichi Kōno, adventurer (b. 1958)
  • July 24: Hiroshi Tsuburaya, actor (b. 1964)
  • July 28: Futaro Yamada, author (b. 1922)
  • August 25: Ginzō Matsuo, voice actor (b. 1951)
  • September 9: Shinji Sōmai, film director (b. 1948)
  • September 28: Isao Inokuma, judoka (b. 1938)
  • September 30: Takasi Tokioka, zoologist (b. 1913)
  • October 11: Fuku Akino, painter (b. 1908)[4]
  • November 7: Sachiko Hidari, film actress (b. 1930)
  • November 15: Satoru Kobayashi, film director (b. 1930)
  • November 30: Kikutaro Baba, malacologist (b. 1905)
  • December 20: Kōji Nanbara, actor (b. 1927)
  • December 22: Shizue Kato, politician and activist (b. 1897)
  • December 29: Takashi Asahina, conductor (b. 1908)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Akihito | Biography, Reign, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Killer nurse". Medical Serial Killers. Retrieved 2008-03-21.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ 自衛隊初の女性将官が誕生、佐伯光海将補　夫も元海将. 読売新聞 東京朝刊. 28 March 2001. p. A. 39.
  4. ^ "Obituary: Fuku Akino". The Japan Times Online. 2001-10-12. ISSN 0447-5763. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
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