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Decades:

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Incumbents

Emperor: Hirohito
Prime Minister: Eisaku Satō (Liberal Democratic)
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Kenji Fukunaga until June 22, Toshio Kimura
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Masatoshi Yokota
President of the House of Representatives: Mitsujirō Ishii from February 15
President of the House of Councillors: Yūzō Shigemune

Events

January 29 - General election of 1967 - Liberal Democratic Party win 277 out of 486 seats.
March 1 - City of Hatogaya, Saitama founded.
March 1 – Hankyū Senri Line, Osaka, Japan, opens.
March 24 – Tanimachi Line, Osaka, Japan, opens.
June 18 – A home-made bomb explodes on a Hyōgo-Himeji local commuter train at Shioya Station on the Sanyo Electric Railway Main Line, Kobe, Hyōgo, Japan. No one claims responsibility in this case, which kills two persons with 29 wounded.^[1]
July 10 - Heavy rain and landslides hit Kobe and Kure, kill at least 371.

Births

January 25 - Nozomu Sasaki, voice actor
January 26 - Toshiyuki Morikawa, voice actor
February 6 - Izumi Sakai, singer (Zard)
February 26 - Kazuyoshi Miura, footballer
March 14 - Yūta Mochizuki, actor of 1992 Super Sentai Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger as Tyranno Ranger/Geki
March 15 - Naoko Takeuchi, artist
March 27 - Kenta Kobashi, professional wrestler
March 30 - Megumi Hayashibara, voice actress
May 4 - Akiko Yajima, voice actress
May 5 - Takehito Koyasu, voice actor
May 6 - Kenta Satou, actor of 1989 Super Sentai of First Heisei Series Kousoku Sentai Turboranger as Red Turbo/Riki Honoo as OP and ED Himself Performing.
May 10 - Nobuhiro Takeda, footballer and sportscaster
June 15 - Yūji Ueda, voice actor
June 23 - Yoko Minamino, idol, singer and actress
June 26 - Kaori Asoh, voice actress and singer
July 13 - Akira Hokuto, women's professional wrestler
July 28 - Taka Hirose, musician (Feeder)
July 31 - Minako Honda, singer and musical actress
August 8 - Yūki Amami, actress
August 22 - Yukiko Okada, singer, actress, model
August 28 - Masaaki Endoh, singer
September 5 - Koichi Morishita, long-distance runner
September 23 - Masashi Nakayama, footballer
October 26 - Masaru Yamashita, actor of 1990 Metal Hero Series Tokkei Winspector.
November 2 - Akira Ishida, voice actor
December 8 - Kotono Mitsuishi, voice actress
December 13 - Yūji Oda, singer and actor

Deaths

July 13 - Hideo Yoshino, Tanka poet
August 22 - Sanzo Wada, painter and costume designer, winner of 1954 Academy Award for Costume Design for Gate of Hell
October 20 - Shigeru Yoshida, Prime Minister

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

1967 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

References

↑ "About The Marshland, note 1". Standpoint Japan. Retrieved December 20, 2011.

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