1965 in Japan

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See also:	Other events of 1965; History of Japan • Timeline • Years

Events from the year 1965 in Japan.

Incumbents

Emperor: Hirohito^[1]
Prime Minister: Eisaku Satō (Liberal Democratic)
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Tomisaburo Hashimoto
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Kisaburo Yokota
President of the House of Representatives: Naka Funada until December 20, Kikuchirō Yamaguchi
President of the House of Councillors: Yūzō Shigemune

Governors

Aichi Prefecture: Mikine Kuwahara
Akita Prefecture: Yūjirō Obata
Aomori Prefecture: Shunkichi Takeuchi
Chiba Prefecture: Taketo Tomonō
Ehime Prefecture: Sadatake Hisamatsu
Fukui Prefecture: Eizō Kita
Fukuoka Prefecture: Taichi Uzaki
Fukushima Prefecture: Morie Kimura
Gifu Prefecture: Yukiyasu Matsuno
Gunma Prefecture: Konroku Kanda
Hiroshima Prefecture: Iduo Nagano
Hokkaido: Kingo Machimura
Hyogo Prefecture: Motohiko Kanai
Ibaraki Prefecture: Nirō Iwakami
Ishikawa Prefecture: Yōichi Nakanishi
Iwate Prefecture: Tadashi Chida
Kagawa Prefecture: Masanori Kaneko
Kagoshima Prefecture: Katsushi Terazono
Kanagawa Prefecture: Iwataro Uchiyama
Kochi Prefecture: Masumi Mizobuchi
Kumamoto Prefecture: Kōsaku Teramoto
Kyoto Prefecture: Torazō Ninagawa
Mie Prefecture: Satoru Tanaka
Miyagi Prefecture: Yoshio Miura (until 8 February); Shintaro Takahashi (starting 31 March)
Miyazaki Prefecture: Hiroshi Kuroki
Nagano Prefecture: Gon'ichirō Nishizawa
Nagasaki Prefecture: Katsuya Sato
Nara Prefecture: Ryozo Okuda
Niigata Prefecture: Juichiro Tsukada
Oita Prefecture: Kaoru Kinoshita
Okayama Prefecture: Takenori Kato
Osaka Prefecture: Gisen Satō
Saga Prefecture: Sunao Ikeda
Saitama Prefecture: Hiroshi Kurihara
Shiga Prefecture: Kyujiro Taniguchi
Shiname Prefecture: Choemon Tanabe
Shizuoka Prefecture: Toshio Saitō
Tochigi Prefecture: Nobuo Yokokawa
Tokushima Prefecture: Kikutaro Hara (until 15 September); Yasunobu Takeichi (starting 9 October)
Tokyo: Ryōtarō Azuma
Tottori Prefecture: Jirō Ishiba
Toyama Prefecture: Minoru Yoshida
Wakayama Prefecture: Shinji Ono
Yamagata Prefecture: Tōkichi Abiko
Yamaguchi Prefecture: Masayuki Hashimoto
Yamanashi Prefecture: Hisashi Amano

Events

February 14 - An All Nippon Airways Douglas DC-3 aircraft crashes into Mount Nakanoone in Shizuoka Prefecture, killing both occupants of the plane.
February 22 - A gas explosion at a coal mine in Hokkaido kills 61.
June 1 - Coal mine explosion in Fukuoka Prefecture kills 237.
June 22 - Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea signed in Tokyo.
August 1 - According to an official confirmed report from the Japan Coast Guard, the cruise ship Yasoshima Maru collided with a runaway tugboat and capsized in Osaka Bay, total 20 passenger and crew were lost to lives.^{[citation needed]}
September 18 - Comet Ikeya–Seki first sighted by Japanese astronomers.
October 7 - Seven Japanese fishing boat capsized near Agrihan Island by Typhoon Carmen, According to an official confirmed report from the JCG, total 209 crew were fatalities.
October 15 - Meijō Line begins operations.
Unknown date – Kyoto Sangyo University was founded.^{[citation needed]}

Births

January 5 - Rei Sakuma, voice actress
January 14 - Shouhei Kusaka (Born Hiroshi Tokoro), actor of 1989 Metal Hero Series Kidou Keiji Jiban.
February 18 – Masaki Saito, former professional baseball pitcher
March 20 - Taeko Kawata, voice actress
March 21 - Wakana Yamazaki, voice actress
April 15 - Sōichi Noguchi, astronaut
April 22 - Arihiro Hase, actor and voice actor (d. 1996)
May 2 - Aohisa Takayasu, actor of 1992 Super Sentai Series Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger.
May 8 - Momoko Sakura, Japanese manga artist (Chibi Maruko-chan) (d. 2018)
May 10 - Kiyoyuki Yanada, voice actor
May 13 - Hikari Ōta, comedian
May 23 - Kappei Yamaguchi, voice actor
May 24 - Shinichiro Watanabe, anime director
May 31 - Yōko Sōmi, voice actress
June 6 - Megumi Ogata, voice actress and singer
June 11 - Yasuko Sawaguchi, actress
July 3 - Shinya Hashimoto, professional wrestler (d. 2005)
July 13 - Akina Nakamori, pop singer and actress.
August 2 - Hisanobu Watanabe, baseball player and coach
August 18
- Kōji Kikkawa, singer
- Ikue Ōtani, voice actress
August 28 - Satoshi Tajiri, video game designer, creator of Pokémon
September 27 - Robert Baldwin, actor
October 4 - Michiko Neya, voice actress
October 7 - Kumiko Watanabe, voice actress
November 20
- Yoshiki Hayashi, rock composer, pianist and drummer (X Japan)
- Takeshi Kusao, voice actor
November 21 - Yuriko Yamaguchi, voice actress
November 29 - Yutaka Ozaki, songwriter and rock star (d. 1992)
November 30 - Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan
December 7 - Teruyuki Kagawa, actor
December 8 - Kotono Mitsuishi, voice actress
December 26 - Toshihide Wakamatsu, actor of 1991 Super Sentai Series Chojin Sentai Jetman.

Deaths

March 4 – Hachirō Arita, politician (b. 1884)
July 19 – Haruo Umezaki, writer (b. 1915)
July 28 – Rampo Edogawa, author and critic (b. 1894)
July 30 – Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, writer, novelist (b. 1886)
August 13 – Hayato Ikeda, Prime Minister (b. 1899)
December 27 – Morita Fukui, lawyer, prosecutor, politician and first Commissioner of baseball in Japan (b. 1885)
December 29 – Kosaku Yamada, composer and conductor (b. 1886)