1965 in Japan

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Incumbents

Emperor: Hirohito
Prime Minister: Eisaku Satō (Liberal Democratic)
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Tomisaburo Hashimoto
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Kisaburo Yokota
President of the House of Representatives: Naka Funada until December 20, Kikuchirō Yamaguchi
President of the House of Councillors: Yūzō Shigemune

February 14 - An All Nippon Airways Douglas DC-3 aircraft crashes into Mount Nakanoone in Shizuoka Prefecture, killing both occupants of the plane.
February 22 - A gas explosion at a coal mine in Hokkaido kills 61.
June 1 - Coal mine explosion in Fukuoka Prefecture kills 237.
June 22 - Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea signed in Tokyo.
September 18 - Comet Ikeya–Seki first sighted by Japanese astronomers.

March 20 - Taeko Kawata, voice actress
March 21 - Wakana Yamazaki, voice actress
May 10 - Kiyoyuki Yanada, voice actor
May 13 - Hikari Ōta, comedian
May 23 - Kappei Yamaguchi, voice actor
May 24 - Shinichiro Watanabe, anime director
May 31 - Yoko Soumi, voice actress
June 6 - Megumi Ogata, voice actress and singer
July 3 - Shinya Hashimoto, professional wrestler
August 2 - Hisanobu Watanabe, baseball player and coach
August 18
- Kōji Kikkawa, singer
- Ikue Ōtani, voice actress
August 28 - Satoshi Tajiri, video game designer, creator of Pokémon
October 4 - Michiko Neya, voice actress
October 7 - Kumiko Watanabe, voice actress
November 20
- Yoshiki Hayashi, rock composer, pianist and drummer (X Japan)
- Takeshi Kusao, voice actor
November 21 - Yuriko Yamaguchi, voice actress
December 7 - Teruyuki Kagawa, actor
December 8 - Kotono Mitsuishi, voice actress
December 13 - Yūji Oda, singer and actor

July 28 - Rampo Edogawa, author and critic
August 13 - Hayato Ikeda, Prime Minister
December 27 - Morita Fukui, lawyer, prosecutor, politician and first Commissioner of baseball in Japan
December 29 - Kosaku Yamada, composer and conductor

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

1965 in Asia

Sovereign states	Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Burma (Myanmar) 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 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