1978 in Japan explained
Events in the year 1978 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 53 (昭和53年) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
Hirohito[1]
Takeo Fukuda (Liberal Democratic) until December 7, Masayoshi Ōhira (Liberal Democratic)
Shintaro Abe until December 7, Rokusuke Tanaka
- Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Masao Okahara
- President of the House of Representatives: Shigeru Hori
- President of the House of Councillors: Ken Yasui
- Diet sessions: 84th (regular session opened in December 19, 1977, to June 16), 85th (extraordinary, September 18 to October 21), 86th (extraordinary, December 6 to December 12), 87th (regular, December 22 to June 14, 1979)
Governors
- Akita Prefecture: Yūjirō Obata Aomori Prefecture: Shunkichi Takeuchi Chiba Prefecture: Kiichi Kawakami Ehime Prefecture: Haruki Shiraishi Fukui Prefecture: Heidayū Nakagawa Fukuoka Prefecture: Hikaru Kamei Fukushima Prefecture: Isao Matsudaira Gifu Prefecture: Yosuke Uematsu Gunma Prefecture: Ichiro Shimizu Hiroshima Prefecture
- Iwate Prefecture: Tadashi Chida Kagawa Prefecture: Tadao Maekawa Kagoshima Prefecture: Kaname Kamada Kanagawa Prefecture
Torazō Ninagawa (until 15 April); Yukio Hayashida (starting 15 April)
- Shiname Prefecture: Seiji Tsunematsu Shizuoka Prefecture: Keizaburō Yamamoto Tochigi Prefecture: Yuzuru Funada Tokushima Prefecture: Yasunobu Takeichi Tokyo
- Tottori Prefecture: Kōzō Hirabayashi Toyama Prefecture: Kokichi Nakada Wakayama Prefecture: Shirō Kariya Yamagata Prefecture: Seiichirō Itagaki Yamaguchi Prefecture: Toru Hirai Yamanashi Prefecture: Kunio Tanabe
Events
- January 14 - According to Japan Fire and Disaster Management Agency confirmed report, total of 25 people were dead, 211 people were wounded, a Richer Scale 6.7 earthquake and aftershocks damaged in Izu Peninsula, Shizuoka Prefecture.[2]
- March 26 - Protesters destroy much of equipment in the control tower of Narita Airport with Molotov cocktails, set to open in just four days.
- April 6 - Sunshine 60 has officially open in Ikebukuro, Toshima, Tokyo, the tallest sky craper in Asia (Japan), until 63 Building in Seoul, South Korea on July 27, 1985.
- May 20, 1978 - Narita International Airport opened
- June 2 - Japan Air Lines Flight 115 suffered a tailstrike while landing at Osaka International Airport.
- June 12 - A large 7.7 magnitude earthquake hits offshore Miyagi Prefecture and causes 28 deaths and 1,325 injuries.[3]
- July 30, 1978 - Okinawa Prefecture changed driving on the Right-hand traffic to Left-hand traffic(730)
- August 12 - The Treaty of Peace and Friendship between Japan and the People's Republic of China is concluded.[4]
- December 16 - The Mystery of Mamo is released in cinemas.
Births
January - June
- January 2 - Toyoguchi Megumi, voice actress
- January 6 -
- January 7 - Asami Imajuku, model, actress, and singer
- January 9 - Hassei Takano, actor
- January 10 - Kanako Mitsuhashi, voice actress
- January 11 - Kyoko Hamaguchi, freestyle wrestler
- January 15 - Vanilla Yamazaki, katsudō-benshi, voice actor, an actress
- January 16 - Hisanori Ōiwa, actor, stunt performer and suit actor
- January 17
- January 24 - Tomokazu Myojin, football midfielder
- January 26 - Atsuko Kurusu, actress
- January 27 - Akiko Hinagata, actress and former gravure idol.
- February 4 - Shingo Kawaguchi, actor
- February 20 - Ken Takeuchi, voice actor
- February 21 - Miki Sakai, actress and J-pop idol singer
- February 23 - Yuka Motohashi, actress
- February 25
- February 28 - Rei Kikukawa, actress, model, and television presenter
- March 1
- March 8 - Genki Sudo, mixed martial artist and a kickboxer
- March 9 - Ryosuke Sawai, baseball player
- March 12 - Arina Tanemura, manga artist
- March 15 - Takeru Kobayashi, competitive eater
- March 18
- March 20 - Hanako Oku, singer
- March 24
- March 29 - Hirotoki Onozawa, rugby union player
- April 5 - Yumie Funayama, curler
- April 8 - Daigo, e singer-songwriter, actor, talent, and voice actor
- April 9
- April 14 - Kaori Muraji, classical guitarist
- April 18 - Ryōta Tsuzuki, football player
- April 24 - Kazunari Okayama, football player
- April 26
- April 27 - Takahiro Suzuki, baseball player
- May 1 - Sachie Hara, actress and model
- May 3 - Dai Tamesue, hurdler athlete
- May 4 - Daisuke Ono, voice actor
- May 8 - Atsushi Sato, long-distance runner
- May 10 - Daisuke Yamai, basketball pitcher
- May 11 - Ushiomaru Motoyasu, sumo wrestler (d. 2019)
- October 2 - Ayumi Hamasaki, singer, songwriter, actress and model
- May 12 - Masahiro Abe, baseball player
- May 13 - Junji Majima, voice actor
- May 15
- May 17 - Norihiro Yamagishi, football player
- May 18 - Toru Yano, wrestler
- May 23 - Hideaki Kitajima, football player
- June 1 - Ayako Ikeda, singer-songwriter
- June 2 - Junko Yaginuma, announcer and model
- June 5
- June 12 - Yumiko Shaku, actress and model
- June 13 - Mikako Ichikawa, actress and model
- June 17 - Kumiko Asō, actress
- June 24 - Shunsuke Nakamura, football player
- June 25 - Miki Nakao, backstroke swimmer
July - December
- July 3 - Mizuki Noguchi, long-distance runner[5]
- July 4 - Yusuke Murata manga artist
- July 7
- July 9 - Osamu Hamanaka, baseball player
- July 10 - Kotaro Koizumi, actor
- July 12 - Yoshihito Ishii, baseball player
- July 19 - Atsushi Harada, actor
- July 21 - Kyoko Iwasaki, swimmer
- July 22 - Kyōko Hasegawa, actress and model
- July 23 - Takashi Yamamoto, swimmer
- July 24 - Sayo Aizawa, model
- July 28 - Hitomi Yaida, pop/folk rock singer-songwriter and guitarist
- August 4 - Satoshi Hino, voice actor
- August 8
- August 12
- August 24 - Kentaro Sekimoto, baseball player
- September 6
- September 18 - Kaoru Mori, manga artist
- October 2 - Ayumi Hamasaki, recording artist, actress, model, and entrepreneur
- October 18
- October 20 - Nora Hirano, comedian
- October 21 - Mariko Ooe, newsroom announcer
- October 25 - Maria Takagi, actress
- October 25 - An Yong-hak, North Korean, football manager
- October 27 - Manami Konishi, rapper, songwriter, record producer, and actress
- October 31 - Mika Sugisaki, announcer, radio personality, entertainer, and actress
- November 3 - Koshiro Take, jockey
- November 4 - Akiko Abe, announcer and actress
- November 7 - Tomoya Nagase, singer and actor
- November 8 - Kensaku Kishida, actor
- November 10 - Akemi Kanda, voice actress
- November 25
- November 26 - Fukuyama Jun voice actor
- November 28 - Tomohiro Nagatsuka cyclist
- December 5 - Michinao Yamamura, baseball player
- December 7 - Yasue Sato, actress and model
- December 9 - Chihiro Kusaka, voice actress
- December 12 - Hiroki Konno, comedian
- December 23 - Akiko Yada, actress
- December 25 - Miyuki Takahashi, volleyball player
- December 26 - Kaoru Sugayama, volleyball player
- December 29 - Noriko Aoyama, actress and former model
Deaths
- January 5 - Shōji Hamada, potter (b. 1894)
- February 7 - Keizō Komura, admiral (b. 1896)
- March 1 - Kiyoshi Oka, mathematician (b. 1901)
- March 5 - Toshiko Higashikuni, daughter of Emperor Meiji (b. 1896)
- April 29 - Yukihiko Yasuda, painter (b. 1884)
- May 15 - Kiku Amino, author and translator (b. 1900)
- May 30 - Tetsu Katayama, politician and 33rd Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1887)
- June 6 - Katué Kitasono, poet and photographer (b. 1902)
- July 10 - Takashi Suzuki, politician (b. 1882)
- July 25 - Masao Koga, composer (b. 1904)
- August 1 - Kōgorō Uemura, businessman (b. 1892)
- September 9 - Kaoru Abe, saxophonist (b. 1949)
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Hirohito Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts . Encyclopedia Britannica . 27 March 2019 . en.
ja:伊豆大島近海地震
- Web site: Significant Earthquakes of the World . Earthquake.usgs.gov . 2010-01-05 . 2012-12-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20100123173040/http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eqarchives/significant/sig_1978.php . 2010-01-23 .
- Web site: 日本歴史地名大系:JapanKnowledge Select Series . Rekishi.jkn21.com . 2012-12-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070825113418/http://rekishi.jkn21.com/ . 2007-08-25 .
- Web site: Mizuki NOGUCHI Profile . www.worldathletics.org . 28 October 2020.