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Decades:

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Incumbents

Emperor: Akihito
Prime Minister: Shinzō Abe (L–Yamaguchi)
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Yoshihide Suga (L–Kanagawa)
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Hironobu Takesaki
President of the House of Representatives: Bunmei Ibuki (L–Kyoto)
President of the House of Councillors: Kenji Hirata (D–Gifu) until July 28, Masaaki Yamazaki from August 2
Diet sessions: 183rd (regular, January 28 to June 26), 184th (extraordinary, August 2 to August 7), 185th (extraordinary, October 15 to December 8)

Events

January – January 2013 Northwest Pacific bomb cyclone causes 1,600 injuries across Japan.
March 17 - Chiba gubernatorial election - Kensaku Morita retains governorship of prefecture.
April 28 – By-election for House of Councillors in Yamaguchi - Kiyoshi Ejima is elected to the House.
June 16 – Shizuoka gubernatorial election - Heita Kawakatsu re-elected.
June 23 – Tokyo legislative election - The Democratic Party of Japan loses control of the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly to the Liberal Democratic Party.
July 21 – Japanese House of Councillors election, 2013, Hyōgo gubernatorial election
August 15 - An explosion at the 2013 Fukuchiyama Firework Festival event kills 3, injures 59.^[1]
September 7 - The 125th IOC Session in Buenos Aires, Argentina award the rights to host the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo over Istanbul and Madrid.
September 8 – Ibaraki gubernatorial election - Masaru Hashimoto enters his sixth term as governor.
October 11 - A fire at the Abe Orthopaedic Surgery Hospital in Hakata-ku, Fukuoka kills 10 and injures 5.^[2]^[3]
October – Typhoon Wipha kills at least 17 people in Ōshima, Tokyo; at the request of governor Naoki Inose, GSDF troops are dispatched. On the mainland, the storm causes major traffic disruptions and kills one woman in Machida, Tokyo.^[4]
October 27 – Miyagi gubernatorial election: Incumbent governor Yoshihiro Murai's only challenger is JCP-supported lawyer Masaaki Satō.^[5]
November 10^[6] – Hiroshima gubernatorial election - Hidehiko Yuzaki re-elected.
December 6 – Special Secrecy Law passes the National Diet^[7]
December 19 - Naoki Inose announces his resignation as Governor of Tokyo following allegations of dubious loans from the Tokushukai medical group^[8]

Economy

January 1, 2013 - Japan Exchange Group (JPX), the resulting entity of the merger between the holding companies of the Tokyo and Osaka bourses, was launched.
January 4, 2013 - JPX was listed on the first section of the Tokyo bourse.

Popular culture

Arts and entertainment

For Japanese films first released this year, see the list of Japanese films of 2013.

For the weekly best selling manga, see the list of Oricon number-one manga of 2013.

For the number one music albums, see the list of number-one albums of 2013 and for the number-one singles see the list of Oricon number-one singles of 2013 and the list of Hot 100 number-one singles of 2013.

For an overview of television, see 2013 in Japanese television. For the Japanese television dramas that debuted this year, see 2013 Japanese television dramas

Sports

In athletics, the 2013 Tokyo Marathon was won by Dennis Kimetto (men) and Aberu Kebede (women).

For an overview of association football, see 2013 in Japanese football. For the national team, see Japan national football team in 2013.

In curling, Japan hosted the 2013 Pacific-Asia Junior Curling Championships, won by China (men) and Japan (women).

In figure skating, Japan hosted the 2013 Four Continents Figure Skating Championships, won by Kevin Reynolds (men's singles), Mao Asada (ladies' singles), Meagan Duhamel and Eric Radford (pair skating) and Meryl Davis and Charlie White (ice dancing). It will also host the 2013 ISU World Team Trophy in Figure Skating.

In motorsport, see 2013 All-Japan Formula Three season, 2013 Super Formula season and 2013 Super GT season.

In rugby union, the 2012–13 Top League was won by Suntory Sungoliath. In the 2013 Japan Sevens, South Africa won the Cup. See also the 49th Japan National University Rugby Championship

In tennis, the 2013 All Japan Indoor Tennis Championships was won by John Millman (singles) and Purav Raja and Divij Sharan (doubles).

Deaths

January 15 - Nagisa Oshima, director^[9]
April 4 – Noboru Yamaguchi, writer^[10]
April 29 – Shinji Maki, comedian
June 12 – Jiroemon Kimura, supercentenarian, oldest man ever, world's oldest living person (b. 1897)
September 2 – Makoto Moroi, composer
September 19 – Hiroshi Yamauchi, businessman (b. 1927)
November 13 – Chieko Aioi, actress

References

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↑ ja:福岡市整形外科医院火災
↑ Kyodo; AFP-JIJI (October 11, 2013). "Pre-dawn blaze guts hospital for aged in Fukuoka, kills 10". The Japan Times. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
↑ The Japan Times, October 16: Typhoon leaves 18 dead on Tokyo isle, in metro area. 42 still missing on Izu-Oshima as dozens of houses collapse
↑ Yomiuri Shimbun, October 10, 2013: 宮城県知事選告示、現職と新人の計２人が届け出
↑ Hiroshima electoral commission: 広島県知事選挙及び広島県議会議員補欠選挙の選挙期日等について
↑ "特定秘密保護法が成立…参院、賛成多数で可決". 読売新聞. December 7, 2013. Retrieved December 14, 2013.
↑ Kameda, Masaaki (March 19, 2013). "Inose calling it quits over money scandal". The Japan Times. Retrieved 12 June 2015.
↑ http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/jan/15/nagisa-oshima
↑ "Zero no Tsukaima Author Noboru Yamaguchi Passes Away". Anime News Network. 2013-04-10. Retrieved 2013-03-11.

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

2013 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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