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Incumbents

Emperor: Hirohito
Prime Minister: Takeo Miki (Liberal Democratic)
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Ichitaro Ide
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Tomokazu Murakami
President of the House of Representatives: Shigesaburō Maeo
President of the House of Councillors: Kenzō Kōno
Diet sessions: 75th (regular session opened in December 27, 1974, to July 4), 76th (extraordinary, September 11 to December 25), 77th (regular, December 27 to May 24, 1976)

Events

January 1 - A hotel bus plunges into Lake Aoki in Nagano Prefecture, killing 24.
July 20 - opening of Expo '75 in Okinawa.
November 2–8 - 1975 Japan Open Tennis Championships held in Tokyo.
November 3 - Miss International 1975 held at Expo Portside Theater, Motobu, Okinawa.
December 31 - 17th Japan Record Awards held in Tokyo.

Films

Banned Book: Flesh Futon
Cruelty: Black Rose Torture
Dersu Uzala, directed by Akira Kurosawa
Gorenger the Movie
Gorenger: The Blue Fortress
Graveyard of Honor, directed by Kinji Fukasaku
Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, directed by Tomoharu Katsumata
Kamen Rider Amazon
Kamen Rider Stronger
Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute, directed by Shohei Imamura
Newlywed Hell
Oryu's Passion: Bondage Skin
The Return of the Sister Street Fighter, directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
Terror of Mechagodzilla, directed by Ishirō Honda
Tokyo Emmanuelle
Tora-san's Rise and Fall, directed by Yoji Yamada
Tora-san, the Intellectual, directed by Yoji Yamada
A Woman Called Sada Abe, directed by Noboru Tanaka

Births

January 1 – Eiichiro Oda, illustrator and author (One Piece)
January 30 – Yumi Yoshimura, singer (Puffy Amiyumi)
February 6 – Tomoko Kawase, singer
February 10 – Hiroki Kuroda, baseball pitcher
April 3
- Koji Uehara, baseball pitcher
- Yoshinobu Takahashi, professional baseball player
April 27 – Kazuyoshi Funaki, ski jumper
May 19 – Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro, manga artist (Seikimatsu Leader den Takeshi!, Toriko)
July 5 – Ai Sugiyama, tennis player
July 22 – Kenshin Kawakami, baseball pitcher
August 24 – Hayato Sakurai, martial artist
September 6 – Ryoko Tani, judoka
November 11 – Daisuke Ohata, rugby union player
November 16 – Yuki Uchida, actress
December 16 – Masaki Sumitani, television performer
December 30 – Yoma Komatsu, singer

Deaths

February 11 – Hideo Shinojima, footballer (b. 1910)
May 30 – Tatsuo Shimabuku, martial artist and founder of Isshin-ryu karate (b. 1908)
June 3 – Eisaku Sato, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1901)
November 20 – Tokushichi Mishima, inventor and engineer (b. 1893)

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

1975 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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