1954 in Japan

← 1953 1952 1951 1954 in Japan → 1955 1956 1957
Decades:	1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s
See also:	Other events of 1954 List of years in Japan

Events in the year 1954 in Japan.

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.
• 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.

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