2024 in Japan
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Events in the year 2024 in Japan.
Incumbents[edit]
- Emperor: Naruhito[1]
- Prime Minister: Fumio Kishida
- Chief Cabinet Secretary: Hirokazu Matsuno
- Chief Justice of Japan: Saburo Tokura
- Speaker of the House of Representatives: Fukushiro Nukaga
- President of the House of Councillors: Hidehisa Otsuji
Governors[edit]
- Aichi Prefecture: Hideaki Omura
- Akita Prefecture: Norihisa Satake
- Aomori Prefecture: Sōichirō Miyashita
- Chiba Prefecture: Toshihito Kumagai
- Ehime Prefecture: Tokihiro Nakamura
- Fukui Prefecture: Tatsuji Sugimoto
- Fukuoka Prefecture: Seitaro Hattori
- Fukushima Prefecture: Masao Uchibori
- Gifu Prefecture: Hajime Furuta
- Gunma Prefecture: Ichita Yamamoto
- Hiroshima Prefecture: Hidehiko Yuzaki
- Hokkaido: Naomichi Suzuki
- Hyogo Prefecture: Motohiko Saitō
- Ibaraki Prefecture: Kazuhiko Ōigawa
- Ishikawa: Masanori Tanimoto
- Iwate Prefecture: Takuya Tasso
- Kagawa Prefecture: Keizō Hamada
- Kagoshima Prefecture: Kōichi Shiota
- Kanagawa Prefecture: Yuji Kuroiwa
- Kumamoto Prefecture: Ikuo Kabashima
- Kochi Prefecture: Seiji Hamada
- Kyoto Prefecture: Takatoshi Nishiwaki
- Mie Prefecture: Eikei Suzuki
- Miyagi Prefecture: Yoshihiro Murai
- Miyazaki Prefecture: Shunji Kōno
- Nagano Prefecture: Shuichi Abe
- Nagasaki Prefecture: Hōdō Nakamura
- Nara Prefecture: Makoto Yamashita
- Niigata Prefecture: Hideyo Hanazumi
- Oita Prefecture: Kiichiro Sato
- Okayama Prefecture: Ryuta Ibaragi
- Okinawa Prefecture: Denny Tamaki
- Osaka Prefecture: Hirofumi Yoshimura
- Saga Prefecture: Yoshinori Yamaguchi
- Saitama Prefecture: Motohiro Ōno
- Shiga Prefecture: Taizō Mikazuki
- Shimame Prefecture: Tatsuya Maruyama
- Shizuoka Prefecture: Heita Kawakatsu
- Tochigi Prefecture: Tomikazu Fukuda
- Tokushima Prefecture: Masazumi Gotoda
- Tokyo Prefecture: Yuriko Koike
- Tottori Prefecture: Shinji Hirai
- Toyama Prefecture: Hachiro Nitta
- Wakayama Prefecture: Shūhei Kishimoto
- Yamagata Prefecture: Mieko Yoshimura
- Yamaguchi Prefecture: Tsugumasa Muraoka
- Yamanashi Prefecture: Kotaro Nagasaki
Arts and entertainment[edit]
- 2024 in anime
- 2024 in Japanese music
- 2024 in Japanese television
- List of 2024 box office number-one films in Japan
- List of Japanese films of 2024
Events[edit]
January[edit]
- January 1 –
- Six wards in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, including Naka-ku, Minami-ku, Higashi-ku, Nishi-ku, and Kita-ku, will be disestablished and two new wards, including Hamana-ku and Chūō-ku, will be established instead.[2]
- A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes Ishikawa Prefecture.[3]
- January 2 – 2024 Haneda Airport runway collision: A Japan Airlines Airbus A350-900 collides with a Japan Coast Guard DHC-8 aircraft and bursts into flame at Tokyo's Haneda Airport. The Coast guard plane was going to deliver aid to those affected by the 2024 Japan earthquake the day before. All 379 occupants aboard the Japan Airlines flight were evacuated, while five of the six occupants aboard the Coast Guard aircraft were killed.[4]
- January 3 – Three men are stabbed on a train at Akihabara Station, Tokyo. A woman is arrested by police.[5]
- January 5 – The death toll from the magnitude 7.6 earthquake in the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, on January 1, increases to 94 people. At least 222 others are still missing.[6]
- January 12 – The death toll from the magnitude 7.6 earthquake in the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, on January 1, increases to 215 people. Thirty-eight others are still missing.[7]
- January 19:
- Japan becomes the fifth country to successfully land on the surface of the moon with the SLIM lunar lander mission.[8]
- 2023–2024 Japanese slush fund scandal
- Several Liberal Democratic Party lawmakers are indicted in a scandal involving misuse of campaign funds, including incumbent lawmakers Yasutada Ōno and Yaichi Tanigawa, both of whom resign from the party following their indictments.[9]
- The Seiwa Seisaku Kenkyūkai, Kōchikai, and Shisuikai factions of the Liberal Democratic Party all announce their intention to dissolve as a result of the scandal.[10]
- Japan becomes the fifth country to successfully land on the surface of the moon with the SLIM lunar lander mission.[8]
- January 24 – Ukrainian-born Karolina Shiino is announced as the winner of the 2024 Miss Nippon Grand Prix beauty pageant.[11] She is the first naturalised Japanese citizen to win the pageant.[12] Her win sparked debates over "Japaneseness" and the shifting demographics of Japan.[13][14][15][16]
- January 25 – Kyoto Animation arson attack: A court in Japan sentences Shinji Aoba to death for a 2019 arson attack on a Kyoto Animation studio in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, which killed 36 people.[17]
- January 26 – 1974 Mitsubishi Heavy Industries bombing: Police in Japan announce they have arrested who they believe to be Satoshi Kirishima, a member of East Asia Anti-Japan Armed Front who has been a fugitive from justice for 50 years for his role in a series of bombings of companies.[18]
- January 29 – The man believed to be Satoshi Kirishima dies. [19]
February[edit]
- February 1 – DNA tests confirm the identity of a man who claimed that he was the fugitive Satoshi Kirishima before dying of cancer in late January.[20]
- February 5 – Ukrainian-born Karolina Shiino who was the winner of the 2024 Miss Nippon Grand Prix beauty pageant relinquishes her crown.[21][22]
Sports[edit]
- March 30 – 2023–24 Formula E World Championship is held at 2024 Tokyo E-Prix
- April 7 – 2024 Formula One World Championship is held at 2024 Japanese Grand Prix
- September 15 – 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship is held at 2024 8 Hours of Fuji
- October 6 – 2024 MotoGP World Championship is held at 2024 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix
- 2024 F4 Japanese Championship
- 2024 Super Formula Championship
- 2024 Super Formula Lights
- 2024 Super GT Series
- 2024 in Japanese football
- 2024 J1 League
- 2024 J2 League
- 2024 J3 League
- 2024 Japan Football League
- 2024 Japanese Regional Leagues
- 2024 Japanese Super Cup
- 2024 Emperor's Cup
- 2024 J.League Cup
Deaths[edit]
January[edit]
- January 3 – Kunihiko Muroi, politician (b. 1947)[23]
- January 4:
- Kishin Shinoyama, photographer (b. 1940)
- Tomonobu Yokoyama, footballer (b. 1985)
- January 12:
- Jiro Hirano, news anchor (b. 1940)
- Haruo Takahashi, animator and manga creator (b. 1947)
- January 14:
- Yuichi Ogawa, politician (b. 1946)
- Makoto Taniguchi, diplomat and academic (b. 1930)
- January 16 – Esper Itō, comedian (b. 1960)
- January 19 – Toru Kawashima, footballer (b. 1970)
- January 22:
- Takashi Ezure, screenwriter (b. 1941)
- Motohisa Ikeda, politician (b. 1940)
- January 27 – Susumu Taira, actor (b. 1934)
- January 28 – Satoshi Kirishima, terrorist (b. 1954)
- January 29 – Hinako Ashihara, manga author (b. 1974)
February[edit]
- 4 February – Yōko Abe, calligrapher (b. 1928).[24]
- 5 February – Tsutomu Hanahara, wrestler, Olympic champion (1964) (b. 1940).[25]
- 7 February – Ryōko Akamatsu, politician
See also[edit]
Country overviews[edit]
Related timelines for current period[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Naruhito | Reign, History, & Family | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved July 8, 2022.
- ^ 区再編ガイドブック（広報はままつ臨時号）PDF版 (in Japanese) Hamamatsu City, November 5, 2023
- ^ "M 7.5 - 42 km NE of Anamizu, Japan". United States Geological Survey. January 1, 2024. Archived from the original on January 1, 2024. Retrieved January 1, 2024.
- ^ "Japan Airlines plane fire: Five dead on coastguard plane after crash with jet on Haneda Airport runway". BBC News. January 2, 2024. Retrieved January 2, 2024.
- ^ Shimbun, The Yomiuri (January 4, 2024). "4 Men Stabbed on JR Yamanote Line; Woman in 20s Arrested at Tokyo's Akihabara Station". japannews.yomiuri.co.jp. Retrieved January 3, 2024.
- ^ "Survivors are found in homes smashed by Japan quake that killed 94 people. Dozens are still missing". AP News. January 5, 2024. Retrieved January 5, 2024.
- ^ 日本放送協会 (January 12, 2024). "【被害状況 12日】石川県で215人死亡 安否不明者28人(午後2時) | NHK". NHKニュース. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
- ^ "Japans SLIM mission aims for historic lunar landing 2023". January 20, 2024. Retrieved January 19, 2024.
- ^ NEWS, KYODO. "Prosecutors indict several LDP faction members over funds scandal". Kyodo News+. Retrieved January 20, 2024.
- ^ "Biggest faction in Japan's ruling party decides to disband: lawmaker". Nikkei Asia. Retrieved January 20, 2024.
- ^ Khalil, Shaimaa (January 24, 2024). "Ukrainian-born model winning Miss Japan re-ignites identity debate". BBC News. Archived from the original on January 25, 2024. Retrieved January 25, 2024.
- ^ Sharma, Shweta (January 24, 2024). "Ukrainian-born Japanese woman sparks debate after being crowned Miss Japan". The Independent. Archived from the original on January 25, 2024. Retrieved January 25, 2024.
- ^ Demetriou, Danielle (January 24, 2024). "Ukrainian-born model crowned Miss Japan sparks national identity debate". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on January 27, 2024. Retrieved January 27, 2024.
- ^ Choi, Christy (January 26, 2024). "'I am absolutely Japanese': Ukrainian-born model sparks debate by winning Miss Japan pageant". CNN. Archived from the original on January 26, 2024. Retrieved January 27, 2024.
- ^ Quadri, Sami (January 25, 2024). "Race row erupts after Ukrainian-born model wins Miss Japan title". Evening Standard. Archived from the original on January 25, 2024. Retrieved January 25, 2024.
- ^ 奥原, 慎平 (January 24, 2024). "「日本らしい美しさ」SNSで論議 椎野カロリーナさん、初の欧州ルーツ「ミス日本」" (in Japanese). Sankei Shimbun. Archived from the original on January 25, 2024. Retrieved January 25, 2024.
- ^ "Japanese man sentenced to death for Kyoto Animation arson attack that killed 36 people". CNA. Retrieved January 25, 2024.
- ^ "Man believed to be long-time fugitive Satoshi Kirishima detained in Japan: reports". The Japan Times. January 26, 2024. Retrieved January 27, 2024.
- ^ "桐島聡容疑者を名乗る男が死亡 末期がんで入院中". 日本経済新聞 (in Japanese). January 29, 2024. Retrieved January 28, 2024.
- ^ NEWS, KYODO. "DNA tests show dead man likely 1970s bombing fugitive in Japan". Kyodo News+. Retrieved February 3, 2024.
- ^ "Ukraine-born Miss Japan winner relinquishes crown following affair".
- ^ "Ukrainian-born Miss Japan Karolina Shiino Gives up Crown".
- ^ "維新の会の参院議員、室井邦彦氏が死去…76歳". 読売新聞オンライン (in Japanese). January 4, 2024. Retrieved January 4, 2024.
- ^ "安倍元総理の母の安倍洋子さん（95）死去 入院先の都内の病院で｜FNNプライムオンライン". FNNプライムオンライン. February 4, 2024. Retrieved February 4, 2024.
- ^ "レスリング金の花原勉さん死去 ６４年東京五輪グレコローマン：東京新聞 TOKYO Web". 東京新聞 TOKYO Web (in Japanese). Retrieved February 6, 2024.
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