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Decades:

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Incumbents

Supreme Commander Allied Powers: Douglas MacArthur
Emperor: Hirohito
Prime Minister: Tetsu Katayama (S–Kanagawa) until March 10, Hitoshi Ashida (D–Kyōto) until October 15, Shigeru Yoshida (L–Kōchi, 2nd term, 1st under the Constitution of the State of Japan)
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Suehiro Nishio (S–Ōsaka) until March 10, Gizō Tomabechi (D–Aomori) until October 15, Eisaku Satō (not Diet member) from October 17
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Tadahiko Mibuchi
President of the House of Representatives: Komakichi Matsuoka (S–Tokyo) until December 23
President of the House of Councillors: Tsuneo Matsudaira (Ryokufūkai–Fukushima)
Diet sessions: 2nd (regular session opened in December 1947, to July 5), 3rd (extraordinary, October 11 to November 30), 4th (regular, from December 1 to dissolution on December 23)
Chief Justice: Tadahiko Mibuchi

Events

March 10: Hitoshi Ashida becomes prime minister
May 1: Japan Coast Guard founded.
June 28: 1948 Fukui earthquake
September 24: Honda Motor Company founded.
October 5: Ashida cabinet resigns.
October 15: Shigeru Yoshida becomes prime minister for a second term.
November 12: International Military Tribunal for the Far East hands down death sentences for 7 war criminals and imprisonment for 18 others.
December 7: Ashida arrested in connection with the Showa Electric scandal.

Births

January 13: Shinji Sōmai, film director (died 2001)
January 29: Mamoru Mori, astronaut
January 31: Muneo Suzuki, politician
February 13: Eizo Kenmotsu, gymnast
February 15: Seiji Oko, volleyball player
March 8: Kiyomi Kato, wrestler
March 26: Ayumi Ishida, singer and actress
April 16: Kazuyuki Sogabe, voice actor (died 2006)
October 20: Jun Maki, copywriter (died 2009)
November 12: Banjō Ginga, voice actor
November 15: Hiroe Yuki, badminton player

Deaths

April 12: Masaomi Yasuoka
April 17: Kantarō Suzuki, admiral and former prime minister
April 20: Mitsumasa Yonai, admiral and former prime minister
June 13: Osamu Dazai, novelist
December 23: Hideki Tōjō, Seishirō Itagaki, Heitarō Kimura, Kenji Doihara, Kōki Hirota, Iwane Matsui and Akira Mutō executed.

Years in Japan (1868–present)

Meiji period (1868–1912)

1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912

Taishō period (1912–1926)

1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926

Shōwa period (1926–1989)

1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989

Heisei period (1989–present)

1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

1948 in Asia

Sovereign states	Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China Cyprus East Timor (Timor-Leste) Egypt Georgia India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen

States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Taiwan

Dependencies and other territories	British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong Macau

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