1975 in Japan
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
|
|||||
| Decades: | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| See also: | Other events of 1975 List of years in Japan |
||||
Events from the year 1975 in Japan.
Contents
Incumbents
- Emperor: Hirohito
- 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)
Events
- January 1 - A hotel bus plunges into Lake Aoki in Nagano Prefecture, killing 24.
- 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.
- December 31 - 17th Japan Record Awards held in Tokyo.
Films
- Banned Book: Flesh Futon
- Cruelty: Black Rose Torture
- Dersu Uzala, directed by Akira Kurosawa
- Gorenger the Movie
- Gorenger: The Blue Fortress
- 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
- Newlywed Hell
- 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 30 – Yumi Yoshimura, singer (Puffy Amiyumi)
- February 6 – Tomoko Kawase, singer
- 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)
- July 5 – Ai Sugiyama, tennis player
- July 22 – Kenshin Kawakami, baseball pitcher
- August 24 – Hayato Sakurai, martial artist
- September 6 – Ryoko Tani, judoka
- November 11 – Daisuke Ohata, rugby union player
- November 16 – Yuki Uchida, 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 Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1901)
- November 20 – Tokushichi Mishima, inventor and engineer (b. 1893)
