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Events in the year 1974 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 49 (昭和49年) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
- Emperor: Hirohito[1]
- Prime minister: Kakuei Tanaka (Liberal Democratic) until December 9, Takeo Miki (Liberal Democratic)
- Chief Cabinet Secretary: Susumu Nikaido until November 11, Noboru Takeshita until December 9, 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: 72nd (regular session opened on December 1, 1973, to June 3), 73rd (extraordinary, July 24 to July 31), 74th (extraordinary, December 9 to December 25), 75th (regular, December 27 to July 4, 1975)
Governors
- Aichi Prefecture: Mikine Kuwahara
- Akita Prefecture: Yūjirō Obata
- Aomori Prefecture: Shunkichi Takeuchi
- Chiba Prefecture: Taketo Tomonō
- Ehime Prefecture: Haruki Shiraishi
- Fukui Prefecture: Heidayū Nakagawa
- Fukuoka Prefecture: Hikaru Kamei
- Fukushima Prefecture: Morie Kimura
- Gifu Prefecture: Saburō Hirano
- Gunma Prefecture: Konroku Kanda
- Hiroshima Prefecture: Hiroshi Miyazawa
- Hokkaido: Naohiro Dōgakinai
- Hyogo Prefecture: Tokitada Sakai
- Ibaraki Prefecture: Nirō Iwakami
- Ishikawa Prefecture: Yōichi Nakanishi
- Iwate Prefecture: Tadashi Chida
- Kagawa Prefecture: Masanori Kaneko (until 4 September); Tadao Maekawa (starting 5 September)
- Kagoshima Prefecture: Saburō Kanemaru
- Kanagawa Prefecture: Bunwa Tsuda
- Kochi Prefecture: Masumi Mizobuchi (until 6 December); Chikara Nakauchi (starting 7 December)
- Kumamoto Prefecture: Issei Sawada
- Kyoto Prefecture: Torazō Ninagawa
- Mie Prefecture: Ryōzō Tagawa
- Miyagi Prefecture: Sōichirō Yamamoto
- Miyazaki Prefecture: Hiroshi Kuroki
- Nagano Prefecture: Gon'ichirō Nishizawa
- Nagasaki Prefecture: Kan'ichi Kubo
- Nara Prefecture: Ryozo Okuda
- Niigata Prefecture: Shiro Watari (until 30 April); Takeo Kimi (starting 1 May)
- Oita Prefecture: Masaru Taki
- Okayama Prefecture: Shiro Nagano
- Okinawa Prefecture: Chōbyō Yara
- Osaka Prefecture: Ryōichi Kuroda
- Saga Prefecture: Sunao Ikeda
- Saitama Prefecture: Yawara Hata
- Shiga Prefecture: Kinichiro Nozaki (until 6 December); Masayoshi Takemura (starting 7 December)
- Shiname Prefecture: Seiji Tsunematsu
- Shizuoka Prefecture: Yūtarō Takeyama (until 24 June); Keizaburō Yamamoto (starting 10 July)
- Tochigi Prefecture: Nobuo Yokokawa (until 7 December); Yuzuru Funada (starting 8 December)
- Tokushima Prefecture: Yasunobu Takeichi
- Tokyo: Ryōkichi Minobe
- Tottori Prefecture: Jirō Ishiba (until 22 February); Kōzō Hirabayashi (starting 27 March)
- Toyama Prefecture: Kokichi Nakada
- Wakayama Prefecture: Masao Ohashi
- Yamagata Prefecture: Seiichirō Itagaki
- Yamaguchi Prefecture: Masayuki Hashimoto
- Yamanashi Prefecture: Kunio Tanabe
Events
- May 9 - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes the Izu Peninsula, killing 30 and injuring 102.
- May 27 – Keyence was founded.
- June 20 – Daito Industry, as predecessor of Daito Trust Construction founded in Chikusa-ku, Nagoya.
- July 7 to 8 – According to Fire and Disaster Management Agency official confirmed report, a torrential heavy massibie rain, following debris flow and devee collapse hit in eastern Shizuoka Prefecture, 50 persons were human fatalities.[2]
- August 30 - A powerful bomb blast in Marunouchi business area, Tokyo, according to official confirmed resulting, 8 person fatalities, 376 were injures.[3]
- November 9 - A LPG carrier, Juyo Maru 10 collision with Liberian cargo ship Pacific Ares, following caught fire in Tokyo Bay, according to Marine Safety Agency of Japan confirmed official, 33 persons lost to lives.[4]
- December 18 – According to Japanese government official confirmed report, A petroleum tank broken in Mizushima refinery, Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, in affective 80,000 litter crude oil spill and contamination tide was widely Seto Inland Sea area, these place recoveries spend for more two years.[5]
Births
- January 5 - Yutaka Yoshie, professional wrestler
- January 29 – Taketo Aoki, baseball player
- February 7 -
- Jun Seba, aka Nujabes, hip-hop producer
- Yō Yoshida, actress
- February 27 - Hiroyasu Shimizu, speed skater
- March 12 – Hekiru Shiina, voice actress and singer
- March 28 - Daisuke Kishio, voice actor
- June 13 - Takahiro Sakurai, voice actor
- June 17 - Mikiyo Ōno, model, actress and J-pop singer
- July 2 -Kiyohiko Shibukawa, fashion model and actor
- August 4 – Wasabi Mizuta, voice actress
- September 29 – Hirofmi Ono, businessman (a CEO of live storming entertainment)
- October 8 - Koji Murofushi, hammer thrower[6]
- November 8 - Masashi Kishimoto, manga author[7]
- December 4 - Tadahito Iguchi, baseball player
- December 27 - Fumiko Orikasa, voice actress and singer
Deaths
- March 1 – Kōtarō Tanaka, jurist and law professor (b. 1890)
- April 12 – Kimiko Tsumura, Noh traditional performer (b. 1902)
- August 11 – Fusako Kitashirakawa, seventh daughter of Emperor Meiji (b. 1890)
- December 24 – Sentarō Ōmori, admiral (b. 1892)
See also
References
- ↑ "Hirohito | Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- ↑ ja: (Japanese language edition) Retrieved date on October 11, 2023.
- ↑ ja:三菱重工爆破事件 (Japanese language) Retrieved on February 4, 2017.
- ↑ ja:第十雄洋丸事件 (Japanese language) Retrieved on February 4, 2017.
- ↑ ja:JXTGエネルギー水島#事故 (Japanese language edition) Retrieved on June 19, 2020.
- ↑ Koji Murofushi at World Athletics
- ↑ Kishimoto, Masashi (October 4, 2002). NARUTO—ナルト—[秘伝·兵の書]オフォシャルファンBOOK (in Japanese). Japan: Shueisha. p. 205. ISBN 4-08-873321-5.
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