1983 in Japan
Encyclopedia
Incumbents
- EmperorEmperor of JapanThe 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...
: HirohitoHirohito, 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 MinisterPrime Minister of JapanThe 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...
: Yasuhiro NakasoneYasuhiro Nakasoneis a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from November 27, 1982 to November 6, 1987. A contemporary of Brian Mulroney, Ronald Reagan, Helmut Kohl, François Mitterrand, Margaret Thatcher, and Mikhail Gorbachev, he is best known for pushing through the privatization of...
1st term until 27 December, 2nd term from 27 December
Events
- General electionJapanese general election, 1983The Japanese general election, 1983 was an election held place in Japan in 1983 for the House of Representatives.-References:* http://www.binghamton.edu/cdp/era/elections/jpn83par.html...
- Korean Air Lines Flight 007
- June 26 - House of Councillors electionJapanese House of Councillors election, 1983Elections for the Japanese House of Councillors were held in Japan on 26 June 1983. The House of Councillors elections were won by the ruling Liberal Democratic Party.-Results:- References :* About Japan Series , Changing Japanese Politics, No...
- July 15 - Nintendo's FamicomNintendo Entertainment SystemThe Nintendo Entertainment System is an 8-bit video game console that was released by Nintendo in North America during 1985, in Europe during 1986 and Australia in 1987...
is released in Japan. - July 24 - A heavy massibie rain, following landslide with devastanding flood in MasudaMasuda, Shimaneis a city located in Shimane, Japan.As of September 2010 the city has a population of 51,118 and the density of 69.7 person persons per square km². The total area is 733.16 km²...
and Tsuwano, ShimaneTsuwano, Shimaneis a town in Kanoashi District, Shimane Prefecture, Japan. As of 2003, the town has an estimated population of 8,878 and a density of 28.9 persons per km². The total area is 307.09 km²....
, which 117 people died.
Arts and entertainment
In animeAnime
is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....
, the winners of Animage
Animage
is a Japanese anime and entertainment magazine which Tokuma Shoten began publishing in July 1978. Hayao Miyazaki's internationally renowned manga, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, was serialized in Animage from 1982 through 1994...
's Anime Grand Prix were the film Crusher Joe
Crusher Joe
is a series of science fiction light novels by Haruka Takachiho and released by Asahi Sonorama from 1979 to 1983. During the late 1970s one of the founding fathers of Studio Nue, Takachiho decided that besides being a designer he would try his hand at penning novels...
for best work, episode 26 (Ai wa nagareru) of The Super Dimension Fortress Macross
The Super Dimension Fortress Macross
is an anime television series. According to story creator Shoji Kawamori, it depicts "a love triangle against the backdrop of great battles" during the first Human-alien war....
for best episode, Chirico Cuvie (voiced by Hozumi Gōda) from Armored Trooper Votoms
Armored Trooper Votoms
is a 52-episode anime television series, created by Ryosuke Takahashi and Sunrise, featuring mechanical designs by Kunio Okawara. The series originally aired in Japan from April 1, 1983 to March 23, 1984 on TV Tokyo...
for best male character, Misa Hayase
Misa Hayase
is one of the central fictional characters of the Macross Japanese anime series. Her voice actress was Mika Doi in the original Japanese TV version, in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Do You Remember Love? movie adaptation, and in The Super Dimension Fortress Macross: Flash Back 2012 OVA...
(voiced by Mika Doi
Mika Doi
, née is a veteran voice actress who was born in Sendai.-Anime:* Agatha Christie's Great Detectives Poirot and Marple * Air Master * Aura Battler Dunbine * Canvas 2 ~Niji Iro no Sketch~...
) from The Super Dimension Fortress Macross for best female character, Akira Kamiya
Akira Kamiya
is a Japanese voice actor. He has been represented by Theater Echo, Aoni Production, and others. He is currently represented by Saeba Shoji.-Career:Kamiya made his debut on Mahou no Mako-chan in 1970 while working for Theater Echo...
for best male seiyū, Mami Koyama
Mami Koyama
Mami Koyama is a veteran seiyū and J-pop vocalist who was born in Nishio, Aichi. She was once married to fellow seiyū Tōru Furuya, her co-star in Mobile Suit Gundam, Urusei Yatsura, Dragon Ball, Saint Seiya, and Casshern Sins...
for best female seiyū and the opening of Ginga Hyōryū Vifam
Ginga Hyoryu Vifam
is an anime television series created by Sunrise in 1983.-Production:Galactic Drifter Vifam premiered in Japan on Japan News Network's TV stations between October 21, 1983 and September 8, 1984. The series was conceived by Yoshiyuki Tomino and directed by Takeyuki Kanda...
, Hello Vifam by TAO for best song. For a list of anime released in 1983 see Category:Anime of 1983.
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...
, The Ballad of Narayama
The Ballad of Narayama (1983 film)
is a 1983 Japanese film by director Shohei Imamura. It stars Sumiko Sakamoto as Orin, Ken Ogata, and Shoichi Ozawa. It is an adaptation of the book Narayama bushiko by Shichiro Fukazawa and remake of the 1958 film directed by Keisuke Kinoshita.- Plot :...
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, The Family Game
The Family Game
is a Japanese movie that was directed by Yoshimitsu Morita in 1983. The movie portrays the changing dynamics of Japanese family life around the time...
by Yoshimitsu Morita won Best film at the Hochi Film Awards and 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 Tokyo Trial
Tokyo Trial (1983 film)
is a 1983 Japanese film directed by Masaki Kobayashi....
by Masaki Kobayashi won Best film 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...
. For a list of Japanese films released in 1983 see Japanese films of 1983
Japanese films of 1983
A list of films released in Japan in 1983 .-1983:-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database...
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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 Hidamari no Ki
Hidamari no Ki
is a Japanese manga series written an illustrated by Osamu Tezuka about a friendship between a samurai and a doctor in the final days of the Tokugawa Shogunate...
by Osamu Tezuka
Osamu Tezuka
was a Japanese cartoonist, manga artist, animator, producer, activist and medical doctor, although he never practiced medicine. Born in Osaka Prefecture, he is best known as the creator of Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion and Black Jack...
(general), Musashi no Ken
Musashi no Ken
is a Japanese sports manga series written and illustrated by Motoka Murakami that focuses on kendo. It was serialized by Shogakukan in Shōnen Sunday between April 1981 and October 1985...
by Motoka Murakami
Motoka Murakami
is a Japanese manga artist who writes primarily shōnen manga. He won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen for Gakuto Retsuden in 1982 and the Shogakukan Manga Award twice, for shōnen for Musashi no Ken in 1984 and for general manga in 1996 for Ron, serialized in Big Comic Original from 1991 to 2006...
(shōnen), Kisshō Tennyo
Kissho Tennyo
is a Japanese shōjo manga written and illustrated by Akimi Yoshida. It was serialized by Shogakukan in Betsucomi between February 1983 and June 1984 and collected in four bound volumes. Kisshō Tennyo received the 1984 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga.On 30 June 2007, Blue Planet released...
by Akimi Yoshida
Akimi Yoshida
is a Japanese manga artist.Yoshida is best known for the series Banana Fish. She twice won the Shogakukan Manga Awards for shōjo, for Kisshō Tennyo in 1984 and for Yasha in 2002...
(shōjo) and Panku Ponk
Panku Ponk
is a Japanese children's comedy manga series written and illustrated by Haruko Tachiiri. It began serialization in the December 1976 issue of the Shogakukan magazine ; as the characters aged, it moved to , , and the shōjo manga magazine Hop, before concluding in 1991...
by Haruko Tachiiri
Haruko Tachiiri
is a Japanese manga artist who writes mostly manga for children. In 1979, she received an Excellence Prize from the Japanese Cartoonists' Association for Picola-picola, and in 1984 she received the Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga for Panku Ponk.-References:...
(children). Domu: A Child's Dream by Katsuhiro Otomo
Katsuhiro Otomo
is a Japanese comic book creator, screenwriter and film director. He is best known as the creator of the manga Akira and its animated film adaptation. Otomo has also directed several live-action films, such as the 2006 feature film adaptation of the manga Mushishi.-Biography:Katsuhiro Otomo was...
won the Seiun Award
Seiun Award
The is a Japanese science fiction award for the best science fiction published in Japan during the preceding year, as voted by attendees of the Japan Science Fiction Convention. "Seiun" is the Japanese word for "nebula", but the award is not related to the American Nebula Award. It was named after...
for Best Comic of the Year. For a list of manga released in 1983 see :Category:Manga of 1983.
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 34th 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 White Team (men). Takashi Hosokawa
Takashi Hosokawa
, born 細川貴志 on 15 June 1950, Makkari, Abuta District, Hokkaidō, Japan) is a Japanese male enka singer.In 1975, he debuted with song "Kokoro Nokori". Hosokawa immediately became one of the most popular enka and pop singers in Japan...
won the 25th Japan Record Awards
25th Japan Record Awards
The 25th Japan Record Awards were held December 31, 1983. They recognized accomplishments by musicians from the this year.- Award winners :*Japan Record Award:**Takashi Hosokawa for "Yagiri no Watashi"*Best Vocalist:**Masako Mori*Best New Artist:...
, held on December 31, and 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 :...
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In television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
, see: 1983 in Japanese television
1983 in Japanese television
Events in 1983 in Japanese television.-Debuts:* Uchuu Keiji Sharivan, tokusatsu * Kagaku Sentai Dynaman, tokusatsu * Miyuki, anime * Oshin, drama * Story of the Alps: My Annette, anime...
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Japan hosted the Miss International 1983
Miss International 1983
Miss International 1983, the 23rd annual Miss International pageant, was held on 10 October 1983 at Tsukuba's Expo Plaza and hosted by Masumi Okada. Gidget Sandoval of Costa Rica was crowned at the end of the event.-Placements:-Special awards:...
beauty pageant, won by Costa Rica
Costa Rica
Costa Rica , officially the Republic of Costa Rica is a multilingual, multiethnic and multicultural country in Central America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, Panama to the southeast, the Pacific Ocean to the west and the Caribbean Sea to the east....
n Gidget Sandoval
Gidget Sandoval
Gidget Sandoval Herrera is the titleholder of Miss International for 1983.She is the second delegate from Costa Rica to win the title, held in Osaka, Japan....
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Sports
In football (soccer), Japan hosted the 1983 Intercontinental Cup1983 Intercontinental Cup
The 1983 Intercontinental Cup was a football match played on 11 December 1983 between Hamburg, winners of the 1982-83 European Cup, and Grêmio, winners of the 1983 Copa Libertadores. The match was played at the National Stadium in Tokyo, and the German team had only two players on the reserves'...
between Hamburger SV
Hamburger SV
Hamburger Sport-Verein, usually referred to as HSV in Germany and Hamburg in international parlance, is a German multi-sport club based in Hamburg, its largest branch being its football department...
and Grêmio
Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense
Grêmio Foot-Ball Porto Alegrense, commonly known as just Grêmio , is a Brazilian professional association football team based in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul founded by English and German immigrants on September 15, 1903. Major titles captured by Grêmio include one Intercontinental Cup, two Copa...
, won by Grêmio 2-1. Yomiuri 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: 1983 Japanese Regional Leagues.
In volleyball
Volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...
, Japan hosted and won the Men's and Women's Asian Volleyball Championship.
Deaths
- January 9: Ichiro NakagawaIchiro Nakagawawas a Japanese politician from Hokkaidō. He committed suicide at a hotel in Sapporo on January 9, 1983. Former House of Representatives member Shōichi Nakagawa was his eldest son. His younger brother is Yoshio Nakagawa....
, politician - January 15: Masatane KandaMasatane Kanda-Notes:...
, lieutenant general - March 1: Hideo KobayashiHideo Kobayashiwas a Japanese author, who established literary criticism as an independent art form in Japan.-Early life:Kobayashi was born in the Kanda district of Tokyo. He studied French literature at Tokyo Imperial University and graduated in 1927...
, author - March 31: Chiezō KataokaChiezo Kataokawas a Japanese actor. Born in 1903 in Gunma Prefecture, he was raised in Tokyo. His first starring role in a film was in 1923. Specializing in jidaigeki, he played the lead in various films before and during World War II. After the war, he eventually joined Toei...
, actor - April 13: Ganjiro NakamuraGanjiro NakamuraGanjiro Nakamura was a Japanese film actor. He appeared in 48 films between 1957 and 1982. He starred in the film The End of Summer, which was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival....
, film actor - May 4: Shūji TerayamaShuji Terayamawas an avant-garde Japanese poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer. According to many critics and supporters, he was one of the most productive and provocative creative artists to come out of Japan. He was born December 10, 1935, the only son of Hachiro and Hatsu Terayama in...
, poet, dramatist, writer, film director, and photographer - July 26: Kimiyoshi YasudaKimiyoshi Yasuda, was a Japanese film director. He directed films from 1950s to 1970s. He directed few films sbout Zatoichi.- Filmography :* The Young Swordsman...
, film director - September 4: Katsutoshi NekodaKatsutoshi Nekodawas a Japanese volleyball player.He was the member of the Japanese Men's National Volleyball team as a setter. He retired in 1980, and died of stomach cancer in 1983.-See also:*JT Thunders...
, volleyball player - October 23: Toru TakahashiToru Takahashiwas a Japanese race car driver.- Career :In 1982, he was runner-up in Japanese Formula 3. The following year, he ran a dual campaign, racing in the Grand Champion Series and also stepping up to Japanese Formula 2http://www.motorsportmemorial.org/focus.php?db=ct&n=986.Takahashi was killed in the...
, race car driver - November 2: Tamura TaijiroTamura Taijirowas a Japanese novelist. He was born in Yokkaichi, Mie, and was educated at Waseda University in Tokyo where he studied literature. His most famous work is Gate of Flesh, which has been made into a movie four times and most recently in 2008 as a television series....
, novelist