1955 in Japan

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Decades:

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1940s
1950s
1960s
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Incumbents

Emperor: Hirohito
Prime Minister: Ichirō Hatoyama
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Ryutaro Nemoto
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Kōtarō Tanaka
President of the House of Representatives: Tō Matsunaga until January 24, Shūji Masutani from March 18
President of the House of Councillors: Yahachi Kawai

Events

February 27 - Japanese general election, 1955
April 7 - Radio Tokyo TV (now Tokyo Broadcasting System Television (TBS)) begins broadcasting.
April 21 - Opening of Gokō Station
May 11 - Shiun Maru disaster
September 3 - Yumiko-chan incident
Establishment of Akkeshi Prefectural Natural Park

Births

January 13 - Ran Ito, actress
January 15 - Mayumi Tanaka, voice actress
January 17 - Mami Koyama, voice actress
January 20 - Hiromi Ōta, singer
January 22 - Keiko Takahashi, actress
January 28 - George Tokoro, television personality and singer-songwriter
February 12 - Ai Satō, voice actress
February 13 - Akiko Yano, singer-songwriter
March 2 - Shoko Asahara, cult leader (Aum Shinrikyo)
March 16 - Jiro Watanabe, boxer
March 20 - Mariya Takeuchi, singer-songwriter
April 5 - Akira Toriyama, Manga artist
April 7 - Akira Nishino, soccer player and manager
April 13 - Hideki Saijo, singer and actor
April 15 - Ryūtarō Nakamura, Anime director
April 23 - Fumi Hirano, voice actress and essayist
April 29 - Yūko Tanaka, actress
May 24 - Rumiko Ukai, voice actress
May 25 - Suguru Egawa, baseball player
May 26 - Masaharu Morimoto, chef
May 30 - Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII, Kabuki actor
June 1 - Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, sumo wrestler (58th Yokozuna grand champion)
June 26 - Yoko Gushiken, boxer
July 1 - Sanma Akashiya, comedian and actor
August 20 - Agnes Chan, television personality
August 30 - Mayumi Muroyama, Manga artist
September 4 - Hiroshi Izawa, actor
September 24 - Shinbo Nomura, Manga artist
October 18 - Hiromi Go, singer
October 19 - LaSalle Ishii, television personality
October 21 - Yasukazu Hamada, politician
October 29 - Etsuko Shihomi, actress
November 3 - Yukihiko Tsutsumi, film director
November 14 - Koichi Nakano, bicycle rider
December 9 - Asashio Tarō IV, sumo wrestler
December 16 - Chiharu Matsuyama, singer-songwriter
December 24 - Mizuho Fukushima, politician

Deaths

October 25 - Sadako Sasaki

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 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

1955 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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