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1956
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1957
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7.28.1957
Heavy rain and a mudslide in Isahaya, western Kyūshū, Japan, kill 992. |
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1958
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1.26.1958
Japanese ferry ''Nankai Maru'' capsizes off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed.
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1.26.1958
Japanese ferry ''Nankai Maru'' capsizes off southern Awaji Island, Japan, 167 killed.
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1959
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9.27.1959
Nearly 5000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshū as the result of a typhoon. |
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1960
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10.12.1960
Inejiro Asanuma, Chair of the Japanese Socialist Party, is assassinated in Japan by Otoya Yamaguchi, a 17-year-old. The cameras were rolling at the time, so the moment was caught on film.
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1962
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8.30.1962
Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since World War II and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war. |
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1963
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7.26.1963
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan.
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11.9.1963
At Miike coal mine, Miike, Japan, an explosion kills 458, and hospitalises 839 with carbon monoxide poisoning. Also, in Japan, a three-train disaster occurs in Yokohama, kills more than 160 people. |
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1964
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10.1.1964
Japanese ''Shinkansen'' ("bullet trains") begin high-speed rail service from Tokyo to Osaka. |
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10.10.1964
The opening ceremony at The 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary communication satellite. |
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1966
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3.5.1966
BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124.
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1967
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1968
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8.8.1968
Jurō Wada successfully performs Japan's first heart transplant. |
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12.10.1968
Japan's biggest heist, the still-unsolved "300 million yen robbery", is carried out in Tokyo. |
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1969
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11.21.1969
U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato agree in Washington, D.C. on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. is to retain its rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free.
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1970
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11.25.1970
In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt. |
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1971
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7.30.1971
An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162. |
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1972
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1.24.1972
Japanese Sgt. Shoichi Yokoi is found hiding in a Guam jungle, where he had been since the end of World War II. |
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2.19.1972
The Asama-Sansō hostage standoff begins in Japan.
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1973
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1974
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3.18.1974
Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan. |
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8.30.1974
A powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. 8 are killed, 378 are injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities. |
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1976
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7.22.1976
Japan completes its last reparation to the Philippines for war crimes committed during the imperial Japan's conquest of the country in the Second World War |
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1981
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4.25.1981
More than 100 workers are exposed to radiation during repairs of a nuclear power plant in Tsuruga, Japan.
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1982
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7.24.1982
Heavy rain causes a mudslide that destroys a bridge at Nagasaki, Japan, killing 299.
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1983
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3.2.1983
Compact Disc players and discs were released for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had only been available in Japan before then.
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5.26.1983
A strong 7.7 magnitude earthquake strikes Japan, triggering a tsunami that kills at least 104 people and injures thousands. Many people go missing and thousands of buildings are destroyed. |
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10.12.1983
Japan's former Prime Minister Tanaka Kakuei is found guilty of taking a $2 million bribe from Lockheed and is sentenced to 4 years in jail. |
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1985
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8.7.1985
Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts. |
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8.12.1985
Japan Airlines Flight 123 crashes into Osutaka ridge in Gunma Prefecture, Japan, killing 520, to become the worst single-plane air disaster.
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1987
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10.30.1987
In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit home entertainment system, the TurboGrafx-16, known as PC Engine.
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1989
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8.25.1989
Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female cabinet secretary. |
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1990
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11.12.1990
Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th Japanese monarch.
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11.17.1990
Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan becomes active again and erupts.
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1991
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6.3.1991
Mount Unzen erupts in Kyūshū, Japan, killing 43 people, all of them either researchers or journalists. |
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8.6.1991
Doi Takako, chair of the Social Democratic Party, becomes Japan's first female speaker of the House of Representatives.
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1992
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1.13.1992
Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery (Comfort women) during World War II. |
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