Events in the year 2014 in Japan.
Incumbents Emperor: Akihito Prime Minister: Shinzō Abe (L–Yamaguchi) Chief Cabinet Secretary: Yoshihide Suga (L–Kanagawa) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Hironobu Takesaki until March 31, Itsurō Terada from April 1 President of the House of Representatives: Bunmei Ibuki (L–Kyōto) until November 21,House of Representatives (Japanese): Presidents and Vice Presidents Nobutaka Machimura (L–Hokkaidō) from December 24 President of the House of Councillors: Masaaki Yamazaki (L–Fukui) Diet sessions: 186th (regular, January 26 to June 22), 187th (extraordinary, September 29 to November 21), 188th (special, December 24 to 26)House of Representatives (Japanese): National Diet Sessions
Governors Aichi Prefecture: Hideaki Omura Akita Prefecture: Norihisa Satake Aomori Prefecture: Shingo Mimura Chiba Prefecture: Kensaku Morita Ehime Prefecture: Tokihiro Nakamura Fukui Prefecture: Issei Nishikawa Fukuoka Prefecture: Hiroshi Ogawa Fukushima Prefecture: Yūhei Satō (until 11 November); Masao Uchibori (starting 11 November) Gifu Prefecture: Hajime Furuta Gunma Prefecture: Masaaki Osawa Hiroshima Prefecture: Hidehiko Yuzaki Hokkaido: Harumi Takahashi Hyogo Prefecture: Toshizō Ido Ibaraki: Masaru Hashimoto Ishikawa: Masanori Tanimoto Iwate Prefecture: Takuya Tasso Kagawa Prefecture: Keizō Hamada Kagoshima Prefecture: Satoshi Mitazono Kanagawa Prefecture: Yuji Kuroiwa Kochi Prefecture: Masanao Ozaki Kumamoto Prefecture: Ikuo Kabashima Kyoto Prefecture: Keiji Yamada Mie Prefecture: Eikei Suzuki Miyagi Prefecture: Yoshihiro Murai Miyazaki Prefecture: Shunji Kōno Nagano Prefecture: Shuichi Abe Nagasaki Prefecture: Hōdō Nakamura Nara Prefecture: Shōgo Arai Niigata Prefecture: Hirohiko Izumida Oita Prefecture: Katsusada Hirose Okayama Prefecture: Ryuta Ibaragi Okinawa Prefecture: Hirokazu Nakaima (until 9 December); Takeshi Onaga (starting 10 December) Osaka Prefecture: Ichirō Matsui Saga Prefecture: Yasushi Furukawa (until 25 November); Hiroki Sakai (starting 25 November) Saitama Prefecture: Kiyoshi Ueda Shiga Prefecture: Yukiko Kada (until 20 July); Taizō Mikazuki (starting 20 July) Shiname Prefecture: Zenbe Mizoguchi Shizuoka Prefecture: Heita Kawakatsu Tochigi Prefecture: Tomikazu Fukuda Tokushima Prefecture: Kamon Iizumi Tokyo: Tatsumi Ando (until 25 February); Yōichi Masuzoe (starting 25 February) Tottori Prefecture: Shinji Hirai Toyama Prefecture: Takakazu Ishii Wakayama Prefecture: Yoshinobu Nisaka Yamagata Prefecture: Mieko Yoshimura Yamaguchi Prefecture: Tsugumasa Muraoka Yamanashi Prefecture: Shōmei Yokouchi
Events
Electoral calendar National elections (if necessary) April and October: By-elections to both houses of the National Diet 2014 Japanese general election Prefectural elections (gubernatorial and general assembly elections only, not including assembly by-elections) February 2: Nagasaki gubernatorialNagasaki Prefectural electoral commission: Gubernatorial election schedule February 9: Tokyo gubernatorialTokyo Metropolitan electoral commission: gubernatorial election schedule February 23: Yamaguchi gubernatorialYamaguchi Prefectural electoral commission: gubernatorial election and assembly by-election schedule March 16: Ishikawa gubernatorial April 6:Jiji Press, December 9, 2013: 来年4月6日投開票=京都知事選 Kyoto gubernatorial in or before July (expires July 19):National Governors Association: List of governors Shiga gubernatorial in or before August (expires August 31): Nagano gubernatorial in or before September (expires September 4): Kagawa gubernatorial in or before November (expires November 11): Fukushima gubernatorial in or before November (expires November 30): Ehime gubernatorial in or before December (expires December 9): Okinawa gubernatorial in or before December (expires December 16): Wakayama gubernatorial in or before January 2015 (expires January 7, 2015; previous election in December 2010): Ibaraki assembly in or before January 2015 (expires January 20, 2015; previous election in December 2010): Miyazaki gubernatorial Municipal elections in designated major cities and special wards (not including assembly by-elections) June 8: Nakano City mayoralNakano City electoral commission: Mayoral election schedule in or before July (expires July 10):Tokyo Metropolitan electoral commission: Mandate expiry dates for mayors and assemblies of all municipalities in Tokyo Suginami City mayoral in or before October (expires October 7): Shinagawa City mayoral in or before November (expires November 23): Shinjuku City mayoral in or before November (expires November 17):Niigata Prefectural electoral commission: Mandate expiry dates for mayors and assemblies of all municipalities in Niigata Niigata City mayoral in or before November (expires December 2):Kumamoto Prefectural electoral commission: Mandate expiry dates for mayors and assemblies of all municipalities in Kumamoto Kumamoto City mayoral in or before December (expires December 6):Fukuoka City electoral commission: Elections in Fukuoka City Fukuoka City mayoral
Additional early elections may be caused by resignations, deaths, recalls, no-confidence votes, etc.
Other Events January 9 – Mitsubishi Materials Yokkaichi plant explosion, kills five persons, with injures 12 in Mie Prefecture. January 25–2, 013 frozen food pesticide contamination incident, in Gunma Prefecture, arrested on suspicion of fraudulent means obstruction of business man of contract employees was mixed the pesticide malathion by Japanese authority. February – 2014 Japan heavy snowfall, according to Fire and Disaster Management Agency in Japan confirmed report, 95 persons fatalities, with 1,770 are injures, most of the victims is the snow removal work during the snow removal of the roof. February 15–2, 014 Motosumiyoshi commuter trains accident, injures 19 people in Tokyu Toyoko Line, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture. March 5 – 2012–2013 PC remote control incident in Japan, a suspect man of 31-year-old bail for the first time in almost a year from the Tokyo Detention Center of the receiving destination, however, the prosecution claimed the bail revocation on May 19, suspects the Tokyo District Court, a suspect man imprisoned in the Tokyo Detention Center on May 20. March 8 – Abeno Harukas open in Abeno-ku, Osaka, the tallest (exclude freestanding) structure in Japan. March 31 – In court that the International Court of Justice, the world complained as the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling violation research whaling in the Antarctic Ocean in Japan, research whaling in Japan said, "not for research purposes", and certification treaty violation, ruling order so that it is not carried out in future. April 1 – Consumption tax is up to 8% from 5% since 1997. August 20 – 2014 Hiroshima landslides, according to official confirmed report, 74 people fatalities in Asakita-ku, Hiroshima. August 27 – According to Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare official confirmed report, a first dengue fever patient cases in the country since 1945, or later, 153 people are same symptoms by October, mainly, Tokyo metropolitan area. September 27 – 2014 eruption of Mount Ontake, according to official confirmed report, 63 people fatalities and worst eruption disaster since 1991. November 22 – A magnitude 6.2 earthquake injured 46 people in Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture, according to a Fire and Disaster Management Agency official. December 3 – An asteroid sample return mission Hayabusa2 launched from Tanegashima Space Center, Kagoshima prefecture.
The Nobel Prize Isamu Akasaki, Shuji Nakamura, and Hiroshi Amano: 2014 Nobel Prize in Physics winners.
Popular culture
Arts and entertainment For events in anime, see 2014 in anime. For events in manga, see 2014 in manga. For events in music, see 2014 in Japanese music. For events in television, see 2014 in Japanese television. For Japanese films released this year, see List of Japanese films of 2014 and for films that reached number-one at the Japanese box office, see List of 2014 box office number-one films in Japan.
Sports For the Japanese participation in the 2014 Winter Olympics, see Japan at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Deaths January January 1 – Tokuo Yamashita, 94, politician, Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare, natural causes. January 2 Higashifushimi Kunihide, 103, Buddhist monk. Yōko Mitsui, 78, poet, liver failure. January 3 Yashiki Takajin, 64, singer-songwriter and television presenter, esophageal cancer. Yasuki Hamano, 62, anime media expert and university professor, stroke. January 4 – Shigeyuki Imai, 81, composer, esophageal cancer. January 6 – Tesshin Okada, 21, boxer, subdural hematoma. January 11 – Keiko Awaji, 80, actress (Stray Dog, The Bridges at Toko-Ri), esophageal cancer.Actress Awaji dies January 12 – Tsunetoshi Tanaka, 88, politician, member of the House of Representatives (1969–1972, 1980–1996). January 15 – Hiroshi Yoshino, 87, poet, pneumonia. January 16 Masahide Sakuma, 61, musician (Plastics) and music producer (Glay and Judy and Mary), stomach cancer. Masaya Takahashi, 83, actor, respiratory failure.俳優の高橋昌也さんが死去 スポーツ報知 2014年1月22日閲覧 Hiroo Onoda, 91, Imperial Army World War II intelligence officer, did not surrender until 1974, heart failure due to complications of pneumonia. January 17 Saizo Kishimoto, 85, yakuza (Yamaguchi-gumi). Seizō Katō, 86, voice actor, bladder cancer.Anime News Network: Transformers Voice Actor Seizō Katō Passes Away January 18 – Takao Iwami, 78, Japanese political pundit, pneumonia. January 19 Yukio Funai, 81, management consultant, pneumonia. Tsutomu Kawabuchi, 88, ice hockey player and coach, IIHF Hall of Fame. January 20 Kiyoharu Ishiwata, 73, politician, member of the House of Councilors (1989–2001), heart failure. Tsuyoshi Nara, 81, linguist (Bengali scholar), lung cancer. January 23 Umon Sanyūtei, 65, rakugo comedian, stomach cancer. Katsuyo Kobayashi, 76, food critic (Iron Chef), multiple organ failure. January 27 Masaaki Tsukada, 74, voice actor (Bleach, One Piece).Anime News Network: Bleach Genryusai Voice Actor Masaaki Tsukuda Passes Away Ichirō Nagai, 82, voice actor (Sazae-san, Space Battleship Yamato), heart attack due to coronary artery disease.Anime News Network: Ranma's Happosai Voice Actor Ichirō Nagai Passes Away Masako Bandō, 55, novelist, winner of the Naoki Prize (1996). January 28 Kazuhiko Sakazaki, 76, baseball player (Yomiuri Giants), stomach cancer. Gudo Wafu Nishijima, 94, Zen Buddhist priest and teacher.
February February 3 – Hiroyuki Suzuki, 68, architectural historian, pneumonia. February 6 – Tōru Mori, 78, baseball player, hepatocellular carcinoma.元中日4番・森徹氏、78歳で死去 February 10 – Hōzan Yamamoto, 76, musician. February 13 – Ken'ichi Yamamoto, 57, novelist, lung cancer. February 17 – Kokichi Shimoinaba, 87, politician (Minister of Justice), sepsis. February 19 – Toshiko D'Elia, 84, Japanese-born American long-distance runner, brain cancer. February 26 – Fumio Yamamoto, 79, news presenter, alveolar hemorrhage.元TBSアナウンサー山本文郎さんが死去 79歳 February 28 – Michio Mado, 104, poet.
March March 8 – Runa Akiyama, 59, voice actress, heart failure. March 12 – Kyojin Ōnishi, 97, writer. March 14 – Ken Utsui, 82, actor (Super Giant). March 16 – Yukio Fujimaki, 54, politician, member of the House of Councillors (since 2012), hemorrhagic shock. March 29 – Masato Masuda, 49, video game designer (Fire Pro Wrestling).
April April 11 – Minoru Sano, 63, chef, multiple organ failure. April 20 – Yoshio Shinozuka, 90, Imperial Army soldier (Unit 731).
May May 1 – Kōji Yada, 81, voice actor (Dragon Ball Z, GeGeGe no Kitarou (2nd Series), One Piece), kidney failure. May 11 – Yuji Kodama, 82, leprosy and human rights activist, lung cancer. May 15 – Noribumi Suzuki, 80, film director (Torakku Yarō).