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Incumbents

Emperor: Akihito
Prime Minister: Yoshiro Mori (L–Ishikawa) until April 26, Junichiro Koizumi (L–Kanagawa)
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Yasuo Fukuda (L–Gunma)
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Shigeru Yamaguchi
President of the House of Representatives: Tamisuke Watanuki (L–Toyama)
President of the House of Councillors: Yutaka Inoue (L–Chiba), reelected August 7
Diet sessions: 151st (regular, January 31 to June 29), 152nd (extraordinary, August 7 to August 10), 153rd (extraordinary, September 27 to December 7)

Events

Junichiro Koizumi became prime minister in April.

January

January 6: Nurse Daisuke Mori arrested for an attempted murder of 11-year-old girl.^[1]
January 26: A JR yamanote line train coming into Shin-Ōkubo Station hits and kills a man who fell off the platform and two others who jumped onto the rails to rescue him.
January 31: 2001 Japan Airlines mid-air incident

February

February 9: The fishing boat Ehime Maru is struck by a U.S. submarine and sunk.

March

March 24: 2001 Geiyo earthquake, kill two people with injure 288 in Hiroshima and Ehime.
March 31: Universal Studios Japan opens in Osaka.

April

April 1: Sakura Bank and Sumitomo Bank merge to form Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.
April 6: Japanese government institutes new overtime regulations.
April 24: Junichiro Koizumi defeats Ryutaro Hashimoto in LDP polls to become prime minister.
April 26: Koizumi announces his first cabinet, with Makiko Tanaka as foreign minister and Heizo Takenaka as Minister of State for the Economy.

June

June 8: Osaka school massacre takes place.

July

July 13: Osaka is removed on the first ballot for the site of the 2008 Summer Olympics.

July

July 20: Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away premieres; it becomes the first anime film to win an Academy Award.
July 29: Japanese House of Councillors election, 2001.

August

August 13: Koizumi visits Yasukuni Shrine, angering China and South Korea.
August 16-26: The sixth World Games are held in Akita.
August 29: The first H-IIA rocket is launched from Tanegashima Space Center.

September

September 1: Myojo 56 building fire kills 44.
September 4: Tokyo DisneySea opens.
September 11: The first case of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in Japan is discovered.
September 12: In the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, the Nikkei 225 index drops below 10,000 for the first time since 1984.

October

October 1: Ghibli Museum opens.
October 18: The East Japan Railway Company introduces the Suica smart card service to the Tokyo area.

December

December 1: Princess Aiko, potential heiress to the Imperial throne, is born.
December 9: Television performer Masashi Tashiro is arrested for peeping in a male bath-house.
December 21: TIME removes Masashi Tashiro from its "Person of the Year" poll after 2channel users vote the "bad boy" performer into first place.

Births

February 4: Fūka Haruna, actress.
May 28: Rikako Sasaki, singer.
August 4: Seishiro Kato, actor.
October 1: Pankun, chimpanzee.
December 1: Princess Aiko, the daughter and only child of Crown Prince Naruhito, heir apparent to the Japanese throne, and Crown Princess Masako.

Deaths

March 9: Mitsuo Kagawa, archaeologist
April 7: Yasuhira Kiyohara, lieutenant of the Imperial army
May 17: Hyōichi Kōno, adventurer
July 24: Hiroshi Tsuburaya, actor
July 28: Futaro Yamada, author
August 25: Ginzō Matsuo, voice actor
September 9: Shinji Sōmai, film director
September 28: Isao Inokuma, judoka
September 30: Takasi Tokioka, zoologist
November 7: Sachiko Hidari, film actress
November 15: Satoru Kobayashi, film director
November 30: Kikutaro Baba, malacologist
December 20: Kōji Nanbara, actor
December 22: Shizue Kato, politician and activist
December 29: Takashi Asahina, conductor

References

↑ "Killer nurse". Medical Serial Killers. Retrieved 2008-03-21.

Years in Japan (1868–present)

Meiji period (1868–1912)

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Shōwa period (1926–1989)

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Heisei period (1989–present)

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2001 in Asia

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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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