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Decades:

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Incumbents

Emperor: Hirohito
Prime Minister: Eisaku Satō (Liberal Democratic)
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Tomisaburo Hashimoto until August 1, Kiichi Aichi until December 3, Kenji Fukunaga
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Kisaburo Yokota until August 5, Masatoshi Yokota from August 6
President of the House of Representatives: Kikuchirō Yamaguchi until December 3, Kentarō Ayabe until December 26
President of the House of Councillors: Yūzō Shigemune

Events

January 9 - The Kanai Building fire in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture leaves 12 dead, 14 injured.
February 4 -All Nippon Airways Flight 60 crashes into Tokyo Bay, killing all 133 people on board.
March 4 - Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 402 crashes while landing at night with poor visibility at Tokyo international airport, with 64 out of 72 on board killed.
March 5 - BOAC Flight 911 crashes while encountering severe Clear-air turbulence over Mount Fuji shortly after taking off from Tokyo international airport, killing all 124 on board.
March 25 – Hachinohe Rinkai Line was opened.
April 1 - Japan switches to the Metric system.
April 26 - Japan's biggest postwar public transportation strike.
November 11 - All Nippon Airways Flight 533 crashes into the Seto Inland Sea, killing all 50 on board.

Births

January 5 - Yuri Amano, voice actress
January 17 - George Morikawa, author and illustrator
January 28 - Seiji Mizushima, anime director
February 4 - Kyōko Koizumi, actress and singer
March 7 - Atsushi Sakurai, singer (Buck-Tick)
April 3 - Mina Tominaga, voice actress
April 19 - El Samurai, professional wrestler
April 27 - Yoshihiro Togashi, author and illustrator
July 25 - Wataru Takagi, voice actor
July 28 - Shikao Suga, singer
August 4 - Kensuke Sasaki, professional wrestler
September 12 - Princess Akishino
October 31 - Koji Kanemoto, professional wrestler
November 2 - Yoshinari Ogawa, professional wrestler
November 6 - Kae Araki, voice actress
November 28 - Narumi Yasuda, actress
December 12 - Último Dragón, professional wrestler

Deaths

March 6 - Michitaro Totsuka, admiral
July 12 - D.T. Suzuki, philosopher
November 9 - Jisaburō Ozawa, admiral
November 14 - Zengo Yoshida, admiral

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

1966 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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