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Events in the year 2007 in Japan.

Incumbents[]

  • Emperor – Akihito[1]
  • Prime Minister – Shinzō Abe (Liberal Democratic Party–Yamaguchi) until September 26, Yasuo Fukuda (Liberal Democratic Party–Gunma)
  • Chief Cabinet Secretary: Yasuhisa Shiozaki (L–Ehime) to August 27, Kaoru Yosano (L–Tokyo) to September 26, Nobutaka Machimura (L–Hokkaidō)
  • Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
  • President of the House of Representatives: Yōhei Kōno (L–Kanagawa)
  • President of the House of Councillors: Chikage Ōgi (L–proportional) until July 28, Satsuki Eda (D–Okayama)
  • Diet sessions: 166th (regular, January 25 to July 5), 167th (extraordinary, August 7 to August 10), 168th (extraordinary, September 10 to 2008, January 15)

Governors[]

Events[]

The launch of SELENE, 14 September 2007

January[]

  • January 23 – A rare eel-like creature identified as a frilled shark is discovered in Japan by fishermen.[2]

February[]

  • February 20 – A power outage strikes the central area of Nagoya.
  • February 26 – A 7.0 magnitude earthquake strikes off the southern coast of Japan's Ryukyu Island.[3]

March[]

  • March 25 – A tsunami occurs on the northern coast of Japan after an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.9 in the Sea of Japan. NHK reports that 1 person has died and 40 have been injured.[4]
  • March 26 – Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe apologizes for Japan's use of women as sex slaves in frontline brothels during World War II.[5]

April[]

  • April 1 – Niigata and Hamamatsu become cities designated by government ordinance.
  • April 8 – Voters go to the polls in Japan for the first phase of the including 13 gubernatorial elections, 44 prefectural assembly elections and 4 mayoral races in major cities.[6]
  • April 10 – The government of Japan extends economic sanctions against the North Korean government by an additional six months, citing a lack of progress in resolving kidnapping cases of Japanese citizens.[7]
  • April 16 – The United States, Japan and India carry out a joint naval exercise in the Pacific Ocean in an attempt to increase strategic cooperation.
  • April 17 – Iccho Ito, the mayor of Nagasaki, Japan, is shot at least twice outside his re-election campaign headquarters. The assassin, Tetsuya Shiroo, is alleged to be a senior member of a local gang affiliated to the Yamaguchi-gumi crime syndicate.[8] Itoh was taken to the Nagasaki University Hospital, where he died early the next morning due to loss of blood.
  • April 22 – In the second phase of the unified local elections, hundreds of municipal elections and two by-elections for the national Diet are held.
  • April 25 – Japanese police raid the offices of a pro-North Korean group in relation to the alleged kidnapping of two children in the 1970s.[9]

May[]

  • May 14 – The House of Councillors passes rules for revising the pacifist Constitution of Japan.[10]
  • May 28
    • Riyo Mori becomes Miss Universe 2007 in Mexico City, the second Japanese to do so after Akiko Kojima.[11]
    • Minister of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Toshikatsu Matsuoka is found dead at his Tokyo home, hours before he was to face questions in the Diet about his expenses.[12]

June[]

  • June 1 – Archaeologists discover a 2,100-year-old melon in Shiga Prefecture.[13]
  • June 21 – Japan changes the name of Iwo Jima to its original name, Iwo To, to reflect the wishes of its original inhabitants.[14]

July[]

  • July 3 – Japan's Minister of Defense Fumio Kyuma resigns over comments he made about the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the weekend.[15]
  • July 4 – Japan's first female Minister of Defense, Yuriko Koike, is sworn in a day after the resignation of her predecessor, Fumio Kyuma.[16]
  • July 16 – 2007 Chūetsu offshore earthquake, eleven deaths and at least 1000 injuries were reported, and 342 buildings destroyed.
  • July 29 – House of Councillors election

August[]

  • August 1 – Norihiko Akagi resigns as Japan's agriculture minister after scandals involving him adversely affected the Liberal Democratic Party's performance in the 2007 Japanese House of Councillors election.[17]
  • August 24 – Murder of Rie Isogai
  • August 25 – The 11th IAAF World Championships in Athletics get underway in Osaka, Japan.[18]
  • August 31 – Crypton Future Media's First Vocaloid on their Character Vocal Series, Hatsune Miku was released for Vocaloid2 Software

September[]

  • September 12 – Prime Minister Shinzo Abe announces his resignation.
  • September 14 – The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency successfully launches SELENE, the largest lunar mission since the Apollo program, on a mission to explore the Moon.[19]
  • September 23 – Yasuo Fukuda, a political moderate, is elected by Japan's governing Liberal Democratic Party to become the country's next prime minister.[20]

November[]

  • November 18 – Japan resumes whaling of humpbacks for the first time in 40 years. Greenpeace and other environmentalist groups condemn the decision.[21]
  • November 28 – The Chinese Type 051B destroyer Shenzhen visits Tokyo in the first visit of a Chinese warship to Japan since World War II.[22]

December[]

  • December 19 – A 32-year-old police sergeant shoots himself inside a kōban in front of Tokyo Station.

Births[]

  • August 30 – Momiji Nishiya, Olympic skateboarder[23]

Deaths[]

  • January 5 – Momofuku Ando, inventor of Instant noodles and Cup Noodles, founder of Nissin Foods
  • January 8 – Iwao Takamoto, animator
  • April 18 – Iccho Itoh, mayor of Nagasaki
  • May 3 – Knock Yokoyama, comedian and politician
  • May 27 – Izumi Sakai, singer
  • May 28 – Toshikatsu Matsuoka, politician
  • June 28 – Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister
  • July 18 – Kenji Miyamoto, politician[24]
  • August 28 – Miyoshi Umeki, actress
  • September 7 – Kenji Nagai, journalist (b. 1957)[25]
  • October 7 – Norifumi Abe, motorcycle road racer
  • October 12 – Kurokawa Kisho, architect
  • November 13 – Kazuhisa Inao, baseball player

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Akihito | Biography, Reign, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  2. ^ "Rare shark captured on film". CNN. January 24, 2007. Archived from the original on January 26, 2007.
  3. ^ Winter, Michael (February 26, 2010). "7.0 quake hits off Okinawa; tsunami warnings canceled". USA Today. Archived from the original on February 26, 2010.
  4. ^ "1 dead, 162 injured in Japan quake". China Daily. March 25, 2007.
  5. ^ Tabuchi, Hiroko (March 26, 2007). "Japan Apologizes to WWII Sex Slaves". The Washington Post.
  6. ^ "Tokyo's governor wins third term". BBC. April 9, 2007.
  7. ^ Ueno, Kiyori; Yamamura, Keiichi. "Japan Extends Sanctions on North Korea for Six Months". Bloomberg. Archived from the original on September 30, 2007.
  8. ^ Nishiyama, George (April 17, 2007). "Mayor of Japanese city dies after being shot". Reuters.
  9. ^ "Japan raid on pro-Pyongyang group". BBC. April 25, 2007.
  10. ^ Martin, Craig (May 2, 2007). "The Case Against Revising Interpretations of the Japanese Constitution". The Asia-Pacific Journal. Japan Focus. 5 (5): 1. Retrieved May 5, 2016.
  11. ^ Medel, Monica (May 29, 2007). "Japan's Mori wins troubled Miss Universe contest". Reuters.
  12. ^ Kyodo News (May 29, 2007). "Political circles shocked by suicide". The Japan Times. Retrieved 13 June 2015.
  13. ^ "2,100-year-old melon dug up". The Japan Times. Retrieved 18 August 2014.
  14. ^ "Japan renames island of Iwo Jima". BBC. June 21, 2007.
  15. ^ "Japan minister quits over gaffe". BBC. July 3, 2007.
  16. ^ "Japan swears in new defense minister". Market Watch. July 4, 2007.
  17. ^ McLeod, Shane (July 31, 2007). "Japan's Agriculture Minister quits". ABC (AU).
  18. ^ "World Champs day one as it happened". BBC. August 25, 2007.
  19. ^ "Japan launches first lunar probe". BBC. September 14, 2007.
  20. ^ Onishi, Norimitsu (September 23, 2007). "Moderate Is Chosen as Japan's Next Prime Minister". The New York Times.
  21. ^ "Japanese whalers hunt humpbacks". BBC. November 18, 2007.
  22. ^ Talmadge, Eric (November 27, 2007). "China Warship Makes 1st Visit to Japan". Associated Press. Archived from the original on December 11, 2007.
  23. ^ "Skateboarding NISHIYA Momiji - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". Olympics.com. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  24. ^ Martin, Douglas (2007-07-20). "Kenji Miyamoto, 98, Leader of Japan's Communist Party, Dies". The New York Times. Retrieved 2007-08-06.
  25. ^ "Japanese journalist first foreign victim of Myanmar clashes". Agence France-Presse. September 28, 2007. Archived from the original on June 1, 2008. Retrieved September 28, 2007.
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