1954 in Japan

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Decades:

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1950s
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Incumbents

Emperor: Hirohito
Prime minister: Shigeru Yoshida (Liberal Democratic) until December 10, Ichirō Hatoyama (Liberal Democratic)
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Kenji Fukunaga until December 10, Ryutaro Nemoto
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Kōtarō Tanaka
President of the House of Representatives: Yasujirō Tsutsumi until December 10, Tō Matsunaga from December 11
President of the House of Councillors: Yahachi Kawai

Events

April 26 - Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai released in Japan.
July 1 - The Japanese Self-Defense Forces are established.
September 26 - A typhoon in the Tsugaru Strait sinks the ferry Tōya Maru, killing over 1,100 passengers and crew, wrecks at least seven other ships and seriously damages nine more.
November 3 - Godzilla released in Japan.

Births

January 14 - Masanobu Fuchi, professional wrestler
January 28 - Kaneto Shiozawa, voice actor
January 29 - Yukinobu Hoshino, cartoonist
February 11 - Noriyuki Asakura, composer
February 17 - Yuji Takada, free-style wrestler
March 2 - Gara Takashima, voice actress
March 23 - Hideyuki Hori, voice actor
March 26 - Kazuhiko Inoue, voice actor
April 2 - Susumu Hirasawa, musician
April 17 - Norio Imamura, voice actor
April 22 - Jōji Nakata, voice actor
April 29 - Kazuko Kurosawa, costume designer
May 19 - Hōchū Ōtsuka, voice actor
May 22 - Shuji Nakamura, electronics engineer
June 2 - Chiyoko Kawashima, voice actress
June 4 - Kazuhiro Yamaji, actor and voice actor
July 10 - Yō Yoshimura, voice actor
August 1 - Junpei Morita, actor and voice actor
September 1 - Shinzō Abe, incumbent Prime Minister of Japan
October 18 - Yūji Mitsuya, voice actor
November 8 - Kazuo Ishiguro, author

Deaths

July 28 - Sōjin Kamiyama, film star during the silent film era
September 21 - Mikimoto Kōkichi, pearl farm pioneer

References

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

1954 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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