Incumbents

• Emperor
  Emperor of Japan
  The Emperor of Japan is, according to the 1947 Constitution of Japan, "the symbol of the state and of the unity of the people." He is a ceremonial figurehead under a form of constitutional monarchy and is head of the Japanese Imperial Family with functions as head of state. He is also the highest...
  
  : Hirohito
  Hirohito
  , posthumously in Japan officially called Emperor Shōwa or , was the 124th Emperor of Japan according to the traditional order, reigning from December 25, 1926, until his death in 1989. Although better known outside of Japan by his personal name Hirohito, in Japan he is now referred to...
  
   (Emperor Shōwa)
• Prime Minister
  Prime Minister of Japan
  The is the head of government of Japan. He is appointed by the Emperor of Japan after being designated by the Diet from among its members, and must enjoy the confidence of the House of Representatives to remain in office...
  
  : Masayoshi Ōhira
  Masayoshi Ohira
  was a Japanese politician and the 68th and 69th Prime Minister of Japan from December 7, 1978 to June 12, 1980. He is the most recent Japanese prime minister to die in office.He was born in present day Kan'onji, Kagawa and attended Hitotsubashi University....
  
  

Events

• 5th G7 summit
  5th G7 summit
  The 5th G7 Summit was held at Tokyo, Japan between June 28 and 29, 1979. The venue for the summit meetings was the State Guesthouse in Tokyo, Japan....
  
  
• Typhoon Tip
  Typhoon Tip
  Typhoon Tip was the largest and most intense tropical cyclone on record. The nineteenth tropical storm and twelfth typhoon of the 1979 Pacific typhoon season, Tip developed out of a disturbance in the monsoon trough on October 4 near Pohnpei...
  
  
• Japanese general election, 1979
  Japanese general election, 1979
  Results of the 1979 general election in Japan for the House of Representatives. A total of 511 seats were contested:...
  
  

Arts and entertainment

In film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

, Vengeance Is Mine

Vengeance is Mine (1979 film)

Vengeance Is Mine is a 1979 film directed by Shohei Imamura, based on the book of the same name by Ryuzo Saki. It depicts the true story of serial killer Akira Nishiguchi .It stars Ken Ogata as Enokizu, with Mayumi Ogawa, Rentaro Mikuni, Mitsuko Baisho, Nijiko Kiyokawa and Chocho Miyako...

by Shōhei Imamura

Shohei Imamura

was a Japanese film director. Imamura was the first Japanese director to win two Palme d'Or awards.His eldest son Daisuke Tengan is also a script writer and film director, and worked on the screenplays to Imamura's filmsThe Eel , Dr...

 won the Best film award at the Japan Academy Prize, at the Blue Ribbon Awards

Blue Ribbon Awards

The are film-specific prizes awarded solely by movie critics and writers in Tokyo, Japan.The awards were established in 1950 by which is composed of film correspondents from seven Tokyo-based sports newspapers...

 and at the Mainichi Film Award, Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko

Taiyo o Nusunda Otoko

Taiyō o Nusunda Otoko , also known as The Man Who Stole the Sun, is a 1979 satirical film from Japan, directed by Hasegawa Kazuhiko and written by Leonard Schrader.-Plot:...

by Kazuhiko Hasegawa

Kazuhiko Hasegawa

is a Japanese film director. He won the award for Best Director at the 1st Yokohama Film Festival for The Man Who Stole the Sun.-Life and career:...

 won Best film at the Yokohama Film Festival

Yokohama Film Festival

The is a noticed yearly awards ceremony held in Japan. The festival was started as a small affair by fans and film critics, and first held on February 3, 1980. Ten films are chosen as the best of the year, and various awards are given to personnel...

 and at the Hochi Film Awards. For a list of Japanese films released in 1979 see Japanese films of 1979

Japanese films of 1979

A list of films released in Japan in 1979 .-1979:-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database...

.

In manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

, the winners of the Shogakukan Manga Award

Shogakukan Manga Award

The is one of Japan's major manga awards, sponsored by Shogakukan Publishing. It has been awarded annually for serialized manga since 1955 and features candidates from a number of publishers.The current award categories are:...

 were Doza no Ippon Tsuri by Yusuke Aoyagi (general) and Toward the Terra

Toward the Terra

is a Japanese science fiction manga series by Keiko Takemiya. It was originally serialized in Asahi Sonorama's Gekkan Manga Shōnen magazine, between January 1977 and May 1980...

 and Kaze to Ki no Uta

Kaze to Ki no Uta

is a shōjo manga with yaoi themes by Keiko Takemiya. It was first published by Shougakukan from 1976 to 1984 in the magazine Shōjo Comic. In 1979, it was awarded the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen/shōjo manga. The series is widely regarded as a shōnen-ai manga classic, being one of...

 by Keiko Takemiya

Keiko Takemiya

is a Japanese manga artist. She is included in the Year 24 Group. She resides in Kamukura, Kanagawa Prefecture. Takemiya was one of the female authors who in the early 1970s pioneered a genre of girls' comics about love between young men; in December 1970 she published a short story, "In the...

 (shōnen or shōjo). Tonda Couple

Tonda Couple

is a shōnen manga series by Kimio Yanagisawa. It won the 1979 Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen. It was adapted into a 1980 film directed by Shinji Sōmai.- Awards:3rd Kodansha Manga Award*Won: Shōnen2nd Yokohama Film Festival...

by Kimio Yanagisawa

Kimio Yanagisawa

is a Japanese manga artist born on September 26, 1948 in Gosen-shi, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. His real name is pronounced the same way, but is written as . He graduated from Niigata Prefectural Muramatsu High School two years prior to Yoshifumi Kondō...

 (shōnen) and The Star of Cottonland

The Star of Cottonland

is a shōjo manga by Yumiko Ōshima. It was serialized by Hakusensha in the magazine LaLa from 1978 to 1987 and collected in seven tankōbon volumes. The story is about an abandoned kitten called Chibi-neko who is adopted by a young man named Tokio and grows up believing she is human...

by Yumiko Ōshima

Yumiko Oshima

is a female Japanese manga artist and a member of Year 24 group.She made her debut in 1968 with Paula's Tears in Weekly Margaret.She received the 1973 Japan Cartoonists Association Award for excellence for Mimoza Yashiki de Tsukamaete...

 (shōjo) won the Kodansha Manga Award

Kodansha Manga Award

is an annual award for serialized manga published in the previous year, sponsored by the publisher Kodansha. It is currently awarded in four categories: children's, shōnen, shōjo, and general. The awards began in 1977, initially with categories for shōnen and shōjo. The first award for the...

. For a list of manga released in 1979 see :Category:Manga of 1979.

In music

Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

, the 30th Kōhaku Uta Gassen

Kohaku Uta Gassen

, more commonly known as simply Kōhaku, is an annual music show on New Year's Eve produced by Japanese public broadcaster NHK and broadcast on both television and radio, nationally and internationally by NHK's networks and some overseas broadcasters which bought the program...

 was won by the Red Team (women). Hideki Saijo

Hideki Saijo

is a Japanese singer and television celebrity most famous for singing the Japanese version of the Village People's hit song Y.M.C.A., called Young Man. Although the original version was camp, Saijō's version was intended to seriously inspire "young men"....

 won the FNS Music Festival

FNS Music Festival

is an annual music show on the produced by Fuji Network System and Fuji Television.- Grand Prix Winners :- International guests :*a-ha*Sting*Jackie Chan*Destiny's Child*Kenny Loggins*Daniel Powter-References :...

 and Judy Ongg

Judy Ongg

Judy Ongg is an actress, singer, author and woodblock-print artist from Taiwan. Born in Taipei, she graduated from Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan, and after that, she changed her nationality from taiwanese into Japanese. Her career has spanned more than four decades.Judy made her film debut in...

 won the 21st Japan Record Award

21st Japan Record Awards

The 21st Annual Japan Record Awards took place at the Imperial Garden Theater in Chiyoda, Tokyo, on December 31, 1979, starting at 7:00PM JST. The primary ceremonies were televised in Japan on TBS.- Award winners :*Japan Record Award:...

.

In television

Television

Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...

, see: 1979 in Japanese television

1979 in Japanese television

Events in 1979 in Japanese television.-Debuts:* Anne of Green Gables, anime * Battle Fever J, tokusatsu * Kamen Rider , tokusatsu * Kinpachi-sensei , drama...

.

Japan hosted the Miss International 1979

Miss International 1979

Miss International 1979 was held at Mielparque, Tokyo, Japan on November 12, 1979. The 15-year old Melanie Marquez earned Philippines's third Miss International crown.-Results:-Special awards:*Friendship: Vivian Elaine Indalecio...

 beauty pageant, won by Filipina

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

 Melanie Marquez

Melanie Marquez

Melanie Marquez , , is a Filipina personality development coach, actress, film producer, author, and celebrity endorser...

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Sports

In athletics (track and field) Japan hosted the Asian Championships and was first in the medal table with 20 gold medals and a total of 59 medals.

In baseball

Baseball

Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond...

 Hiroshima Carp

Hiroshima Toyo Carp

The are a professional baseball team in Japan's Central League. The team is primarily owned by the Matsuda family, led by , who is a descendant of Mazda founder Jujiro Matsuda. Mazda is the largest single shareholder , which is less than the portion owned by the Matsuda family . Because of that,...

 won the Japan Series

1979 Japan Series

The 1979 Japan Series matched the Central League champion Hiroshima Carp against the Pacific League champion Kintetsu Buffaloes.*MVP: Yoshihiko Takahashi - Summary :- See also :*1979 Pacific League Playoffs...

.

In baseketball

BASEketball

BASEketball is a 1998 American David Zucker comedy starring South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, along with Dian Bachar, Robert Vaughn, Ernest Borgnine, Yasmine Bleeth, and Jenny McCarthy...

 Japan hosted the ABC Championship and won the second place behind China.

In football (soccer) Japan hosted the FIFA World Youth Championship

1979 FIFA World Youth Championship

The 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship, the second staging of the FIFA World Youth Championship, was held in Japan from August 26 to September 7, 1979. The tournament took place in four venues — Kobe, Omiya, Tokyo and Yokohama — where a total of 32 matches were played, four more than in the...

, won by Argentina. Fujita Engineering

Shonan Bellmare

are a Japanese professional football club, currently playing in the J. League Division 2. The team is located in Hiratsuka, in the west of Kanagawa Prefecture; their home stadium is Hiratsuka Athletics Stadium in Hiratsuka. The name Bellmare is derived from the Latin "bellum" for "war" and "mare"...

 won the Japan Soccer League. For the champions of the regional leagues

Japanese Regional Leagues

Japanese Regional Leagues are a group of parallel association football leagues in Japan that are organized on the regional basis...

 see: 1979 Japanese Regional Leagues. For more see: 1979 in Japanese football

1979 in Japanese football

-National team:-Players statistics:...

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Births

• January 1: Koichi Domoto
  Koichi Domoto
  is a Japanese idol, singer, singer-songwriter, composer, lyricist, television personality, seiyū and actor. Along with Tsuyoshi Domoto , he is a member of KinKi Kids, which is a Japanese duo under the management of Johnny & Associates.- Career :Born in Ashiya, Hyōgo, Japan, Domoto joined the...
  
  , idol and singer
• January 7: Yōko Honna
  Yoko Honna
  is a Japanese voice actress from Sōka, Saitama. She works at Re-Max, although she formerly worked at 81 Produce.- Anime :* Only Yesterday , Taeko Okajima...
  
  , voice actress
• January 17: Masae Ueno
  Masae Ueno
  is a Japanese female judoka who competed in the Athens 2004 Olympics and the Beijing 2008 Olympics. Ueno was born January 17, 1979 in Asahikawa Hokkaidō. In 2004, she earned Japan's fifth Olympic Gold Medal in ten events, taking the 70 kg women's judo event...
  
  , judoka
• January 18: Sachiko Kojima
  Sachiko Kojima
  is a Japanese voice actor from Chiba Prefecture. She is affiliated with Mausu Promotion. In 2008, she married her 9-year boyfriend, theater director Makoto Yasue.-Television animation:*Bamboo Blade *Cowboy Bebop...
  
  , voice actress
• February 19: Miki Furukawa
  Miki Furukawa
  is a Japanese musician. From 1995 to 2005 she was the bass player and vocalist of the indie rock band Supercar. She released her first solo record in 2006.- Biography :...
  
  , musician
• March 8: Jasmine You
  Jasmine You
  Jasmine You was a Japanese musician, best known as original bassist of the symphonic metal band Versailles. In 1998 Jasmine You entered the visual kei music scene after joining Jakura, who managed to become pretty successful before disbanding in 2003. In 2006 he was invited by his long-time...
  
  , musician (d. 2009
  2009 in Japan
  - Incumbents :* Emperor – Akihito* Prime Minister – Taro Aso until September 16, Yukio Hatoyama * Chief Cabinet Secretary: Takeo Kawamura until September 16, Hirofumi Hirano* Governor of Tokyo: Shintaro Ishihara-January:...
  
  )
• March 26: Hiromi Uehara, jazz composer and pianist
• April 4: Bunko Kanazawa
  Bunko Kanazawa
  is a prolific Japanese adult film actress, who has been called "one of the biggest AV idols in Japan."-Debut - Cosmos Plan:Bunko Kanazawa was born April 4, 1979 in Kanagawa prefecture). She reports that as a child she was good at mathematics and science, but horrible in Japanese and English...
  
  , AV idol
• May 14: Jun Ideguchi, football player
• May 28: Atsushi Nomi
  Atsushi Nomi
  is a Nippon Professional Baseball pitcher for the Hanshin Tigers in Japan's Central League.-External links:...
  
  , baseball pitcher
• May 30: Rie Kugimiya
  Rie Kugimiya
  is a Japanese voice actress affiliated with I'm Enterprise.Kugimiya's most famous roles include Alphonse Elric in Fullmetal Alchemist, Happy in Fairy Tail, Kagura in Gintama, Nagi Sanzenin in Hayate no Gotoku!, Shana in Shakugan no Shana, Louise in Zero no Tsukaima, Taiga Aisaka in Toradora!, and...
  
  , voice actress
• June 9: Ryoko Kuninaka
  Ryoko Kuninaka
  is an Okinawan actress and singer. She hails from Naha City in Okinawa, Japan and currently works for Vision Factory.-Biography:Ryoko Kuninaka was working part-time at a Zenzai store when she was discovered by a talent scout. In 1998, she entered the "Idol High School" for aspiring female...
  
  , actress and singer
• June 18: Yumiko Kobayashi
  Yumiko Kobayashi
  is a Japanese voice actress. She is currently a freelance voice actor but until August 2007 was affiliated with Arts Vision.She and fellow Excel Saga voice actress Mikako Takahashi are known as the duo "The Excel Girls"...
  
  , voice actress
• June 23: Shigeki Tsujimoto, football player
• July 16: Mai Nakamura
  Mai Nakamura
  is a former backstroke swimmer from Japan. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Nakamura won the silver medal in the 100m Backstroke and a bronze medal as part of the Women's Relay Team for the 4x100 Medley.-References:* *...
  
  , backstroke swimmer
• July 21: Haruki Mizuno
  Haruki Mizuno
  is a popular Japanese AV, gravure idol, and mainstream media celebrity.-Life and career:Mizuno was born in Tokyo on July 21, 1979. She dropped out of high school, and thinks that if she had not become an AV star, she would be working at soapland....
  
  , AV and gravure idol
• July 26: Yukihiro Aoba, football player
• July 29: Kurumi Morishita
  Kurumi Morishita
  is a well-known adult video actress who had a long and prolific career. As of late 2010, Amazon listed 148 DVD titles for her, reflecting her status as a prominent AV Idol. She retired from the adult entertainment industry in 2009.-Life and career:...
  
  , adult video actress
• August 7: Seiji Koga
  Seiji Koga
  Seiji Koga is a Japanese footballer. He is from Fukuoka, Japan. He currently plays for Vissel Kobe, a J. League Division 1 team. He has previously played with Okawa Middle School, Fukuoka, Japan; Higashi Fukuoka High School, Fukuoka, Japan; Yokohama F. Marinos, Japan; Avispa Fukuoka, Japan.His...
  
  , footballe player
• August 8: Azumi Kawashima
  Azumi Kawashima
  , born August 8, 1979 in Tokyo, Japan, is a Japanese idol and adult video actress.-Life and career:Azumi Kawashima was born in Tokyo on August 8, 1979. Her debut video was Promise released under the Try-Heart Corporation's Sexia's label in December 1998. In January 1999, Kawashima starred in Naive,...
  
  , AV idol
• September 18: Ryu Saito, football player
• September 30: Yuta Minami
  Yuta Minami
  Yuta Minami 南 雄太 is a Japanese football player who currently plays for Roasso Kumamoto of the J-League.-Mistake:Minami became one of the few goalkeepers in football history when he managed to score an own goal against Sanfrecce Hiroshima in a J-League match on May 22, 2004...
  
  , football player
• October 3: Yuri Ebihara
  Yuri Ebihara
  is a Japanese model and actress. She is a graduate of Kyushu Sangyo University, where she studied fine arts.Her first big break came as a model for CanCam, with whom she had an exclusive contract. She has since appeared in several TV dramas, most recently "Tokumei Kakarichō Tadano Hitoshi"...
  
  , model and actress
• October 6: Emi Naito
  Emi Naito
  is a Japanese softball player who won two medals for Japan in the Olympic Games. In 2000 she played in 2nd base, where she won the silver medal for the team. In 2004 she played as a shortstop, in which her team received a bronze medal....
  
  , softball player
• October 12: Rie Tomosaka
  Rie Tomosaka
  is a Japanese actress and pop star from Mitaka-shi, Tokyo, born on October 12, 1979 in Nagano-shi, Nagano.She works for Itoh Company. From 1996 to 1997, she has also released music under the name .-Profile :She is 168 cm in height....
  
  , actress and popstar
• October 18: Hikaru Kawamura, gravure idol
• October 19: Hiromi Yanagihara
  Hiromi Yanagihara
  was a founding member of Hello! Project group Country Musume. She joined Country Musume in 1999 along with Rinne Toda and Azusa Kobayashi. On July 16, 1999, Yanagihara was killed in a car accident one week before the group's first release, Futari no Hokkaidou on July 23, 1999...
  
  , J-pop singer (d. 1999
  1999 in Japan
  Events in the year 1999 in Japan.-Incumbents:* Emperor: Akihito* Prime Minister: Keizo Obuchi* Chief Cabinet Secretary: Hiromu Nonaka, Mikio Aoki* Governor of Tokyo: Yukio Aoshima, Shintaro Ishihara-Events:...
  
  )
• October 30: Yukie Nakama
  Yukie Nakama
  is a Japanese actress, singer and former idol. She was born in Okinawa, Japan, in a fisherman's family, the youngest of five siblings.At the start of her career she was a gravure idol and singer , and appeared in bit roles until her career breakthrough playing Sadako in "Ring 0: Birthday ."In 2000,...
  
  , actress, singer, and idol
• November 15: Aki Nawa
  Aki Nawa
  Aki Nawa is a Japanese female professional ten-pin bowler. She is a member of the Japan Professional Bowling Association, license no. 365. Although Nawa bowls right-handed, she writes and uses chopsticks left-handed...
  
  , ten-pin bowler
• November 24: Sachiyo Shibata
  Sachiyo Shibata
  — is a Japanese kickboxer.-Titles:*WIKBA World Muay Thai Super Flyweight Champion*ISKA World Jr Flyweight Champion*WMTA World Flyweight Champion-Links:*...
  
  , kickboxer
• November 26: Tetsuya Oishi, football player
• November 29: Shosei Koda
  Shosei Koda
  Shosei Koda was a Japanese citizen who was kidnapped and later beheaded in Iraq on November 3, 2004 while touring the country. His parents were members of the United Church of Christ...
  
  , terrorism victim (d. 2004)
• December 7: Hirokazu Otsubo, football player
• December 9: Aiko Uemura
  Aiko Uemura
  is a Japanese freestyle skier. She participates in moguls and dual moguls.Her family moved to Hakuba town, Nagano Prefecture, Japan in 1986. She graduated from Hakuba High School in 1998, and works for the Kitano Construction Corporation in Nagano city, Japan....
  
  , freestyle skier
• December 23: Yukifumi Murakami
  Yukifumi Murakami
  is a Japanese javelin thrower. He was the first Japanese athlete to win a World Championship medal in the javelin, taking bronze at the 2009 edition with a throw of 82.97 metres....
  
  , javelin thrower
• December 25: Tatsuya Ishikawa, football player
• December 26: Kazuhiko Ikematsu
  Kazuhiko Ikematsu
  is a male freestyle wrestler from Japan.He participated in Men's freestyle 66 kg at 2008 Summer Olympics. He was eliminated from the tournament after lost with Otar Tushishvili....
  
  , wrestler
• December 29: Moe Oshikiri
  Moe Oshikiri
  is a Japanese model best known her work with fashion magazine AneCan and its sister magazine CanCam which Oshikiri was a former top model for. She is also a designer, starting her own Kimono line branded under her name, as well as a hosiery line with CanCam model Yuri Ebihara called f*ing...
  
  , model

Deaths

• January 12: Shunsaku Kudō
  Shunsaku Kudo
  Commander was an officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy. He is notable for the humanitarian act of rescuing 442 enemy British and American sailors from the Java Sea in 1942.-Biography:...
  
  , Imperial Japanese Navy officer
• January 29: Yusuke Hagihara
  Yusuke Hagihara
  was a Japanese astronomer noted for his contributions to celestial mechanics.Hagihara graduated from Tokyo Imperial University with a degree in astronomy in 1921 and became an assistant professor of astronomy there two years later. In 1923 the Japanese government sent him abroad as a traveling...
  
  , astronomer
• February 24: Yoshie Shiratori
  Yoshie Shiratori
  was a Japanese murderer, who committed a murder in 1933. He is best known for having escaped from prison four times over three years. He was eventually sentenced to life and 23 years imprisonment for a murder, escaping and manslaughter. However, in fact he had been in prison for 26 years until he...
  
  , murderer
• March 25: Akinoumi Setsuo
  Akinoumi Setsuo
  Akinoumi Setsuo was a sumo wrestler from Hiroshima, Japan. He was the sport's 37th Yokozuna.-Career:Akinoumi made his professional debut in February 1932 and reached the top makuuchi division in January 1938. He was the man who ended Futabayama's record 69 bout winning streak in January 1939...
  
  , sumo wrestler
• March 26: Iwao Matsuda
  Iwao Matsuda (general)
  Lieutenant General was a senior officer in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II.He was the chief of staff of the 23rd Division in 1941 and later was the commanding officer of the 65th Independent Infantry Brigade. He commanded a force tasked with the defence of the Cape Gloucester area...
  
  , senior officer in the Imperial Japanese army
• April 17: Yukio Tsuda, football player
• May 23: Hiroshi Ohshita
  Hiroshi Ohshita
  was a Japanese professional baseball player. Hall of famer-Early life:Born in Sannomiya Kobe city, Hyogo prefecture on December 15, 1922, His father died in the war when he was in childhood. His family moved to Gaoshun, Taiwan. He grew up in Gaoshun, Taiwan. He graduated from Gaoshun Commercial...
  
  , professional baseball player
• May 29: Eddie Imazu
  Eddie Imazu
  Eddie Imazu was a Japanese art director. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Art Direction for the film The Great Ziegfeld.He was born in Yamaguchi, Japan and died in Los Angeles, California....
  
  , art director
• July 8: Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
  Sin-Itiro Tomonaga
  was a Japanese physicist, influential in the development of quantum electrodynamics, work for which he was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 along with Richard Feynman and Julian Schwinger.-Biography:...
  
  , physicist
• July 20: Shōji Yamagishi
  Shoji Yamagishi
  was a photography critic, curator, and magazine editor.Yamagishi entered Mainichi Shinbunsha in 1950. He started as a photographer, but was less successful at taking than at selecting photographs....
  
  , photography critic, curator, and magazine editor
• July 27: Sōkichi Takagi
  Sokichi Takagi
  -External links:*- Notes :...
  
  , admiral and political figure
• August 24: Shigeharu Nakano
  Shigeharu Nakano
  was a Japanese author and Communist Party politician.Nakano was born in Maruoka, now part of Sakai, Fukui. In 1914 he enrolled in middle school in Fukui, Fukui, and attended high school in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa and Kanazawa, Ishikawa. In 1924 he entered the German literature department of the...
  
  , author and Communist Party politician
• August 25: Sōgen Asahina
  Sogen Asahina
  was an influential Japanese Rinzai zen master. He was also a prolific writer and a calligrapher.Born in Shizuoka Prefecture, Asahina graduated from Nihon University. He studied at Myōshin-ji in Kyoto and at Engaku-ji in Kamakura. He rose to become the head of the Engaku-ji branch of Rinzai Zen...
  
  , Rinzai zen master
• September 17: Mitsuru Yoshida
  Mitsuru Yoshida
  Mitsuru Yoshida was a Japanese author and naval officer. He was born in Tokyo. He was the senior surviving officer on the battleship Yamato when it was sunk on 7 April 1945 during Operation Ten-Go, an attempt to support the defenders of Okinawa.His best known work is Senkan Yamato-no Saigo...
  
  , author and naval officer
• September 30: Shiina Etsusaburo
  Shiina Etsusaburo
  was a Foreign Minister of Japan from 1964-66 and played a pivotal role in ensuring peace between Japan and Korea.Shiina Etsusaburō was the first of the Japanese Ministry of Commerce and Industry Officials to join Manchukuo's industrial administration....
  
  , foreign minister of Japan from 1964 to 1966
• October 22: Mieko Kamiya
  Mieko Kamiya
  was a Japanese psychiatrist who treated leprosy patients at Nagashima Aiseien Sanatorium. She was known for the translation of books on philosophy. She worked as a medical doctor in the Department of Psychiatry at Tokyo University following World War II...
  
  , psychiatrist
• December 25: Kenji Tomiki
  Kenji Tomiki
  was a Japanese aikido and judo teacher and the founder of aikido style Shodokan.Tomiki was one of the early students of the founder of aikido Morihei Ueshiba, and also of Jigoro Kano, the founder of judo. In 1925, the year he joined Morihei Ueshiba, he obtained 5th dan in judo...
  
  , aikido and judo teacher