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Events from the year1966 in Japan. Under theJapanese calendar, this year is known asShōwa 41.

Incumbents

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

Governors

Aichi Prefecture:Mikine Kuwahara
Akita Prefecture:Yūjirō Obata
Aomori Prefecture:Shunkichi Takeuchi
Chiba Prefecture:Taketo Tomonō
Ehime Prefecture:Sadatake Hisamatsu
Fukui Prefecture:Eizō Kita
Fukuoka Prefecture:Taichi Uzaki
Fukushima Prefecture:Morie Kimura
Gifu Prefecture:Yukiyasu Matsuno (until 16 October);Saburō Hirano (starting 17 October)
Gunma Prefecture:Konroku Kanda
Hiroshima Prefecture:Iduo Nagano
Hokkaido:Kingo Machimura
Hyogo Prefecture:Motohiko Kanai
Ibaraki Prefecture:Nirō Iwakami
Ishikawa Prefecture:Yōichi Nakanishi
Iwate Prefecture:Tadashi Chida
Kagawa Prefecture:Masanori Kaneko
Kagoshima Prefecture:Katsushi Terazono
Kanagawa Prefecture:Iwataro Uchiyama
Kochi Prefecture:Masumi Mizobuchi
Kumamoto Prefecture:Kōsaku Teramoto
Kyoto Prefecture:Torazō Ninagawa
Mie Prefecture:Satoru Tanaka
Miyagi Prefecture:Shintaro Takahashi
Miyazaki Prefecture:Hiroshi Kuroki
Nagano Prefecture:Gon'ichirō Nishizawa
Nagasaki Prefecture:Katsuya Sato
Nara Prefecture:Ryozo Okuda
Niigata Prefecture:Juichiro Tsukada (until 28 March);Shiro Watari (starting 8 May)
Oita Prefecture:Kaoru Kinoshita
Okayama Prefecture:Takenori Kato
Osaka Prefecture:Gisen Satō
Saga Prefecture:Sunao Ikeda
Saitama Prefecture:Hiroshi Kurihara
Shiga Prefecture:Kyujiro Taniguchi (until 6 December);Kinichiro Nozaki (starting 7 December)
Shimane Prefecture:Choemon Tanabe
Shizuoka Prefecture:Toshio Saitō
Tochigi Prefecture:Nobuo Yokokawa
Tokushima Prefecture:Yasunobu Takeichi
Tokyo:Ryōtarō Azuma
Tottori Prefecture:Jirō Ishiba
Toyama Prefecture:Minoru Yoshida
Wakayama Prefecture:Shinji Ono
Yamagata Prefecture:Tōkichi Abiko
Yamaguchi Prefecture:Masayuki Hashimoto
Yamanashi Prefecture:Hisashi Amano

Events

January 9 - The Kanai Building fire inKawasaki City,Kanagawa Prefecture leaves 12 dead, 14 injured.
February 4 -All Nippon Airways Flight 60 crashes intoTokyo Bay, killing all 133 people on board.
March 4 -Canadian Pacific Air Lines Flight 402 crashes while landing at night with poor visibility atTokyo International Airport, with 64 out of 72 on board killed.
March 5 -BOAC Flight 911 crashes while encountering severeClear-air turbulence overMount Fuji shortly after taking off fromTokyo International Airport, killing all 124 on board.
March 11 – Aspa hotel caught fire inMinakami, Gunma Prefecture, causing 30 deaths, 29 injuries, according to Japan Fire and Disaster Management Agency official confirmed report.^[2]
March 25 –Hachinohe Rinkai Line was opened.
April 1 - Japan switches to theMetric system.
April 26 - Japan's biggest postwar public transportation strike.
June 28 –Typhoon Kit hit eastern Honshu, kills 83 persons, injures 91 persons, according to Fire and Disaster Management Agency official confirmed reported.^{[citation needed]}
June 30 &ndash； July 2 &ndash； A firstThe Beatles concert show inNippon Budokan,Chiyoda, Tokyo,^{[citation needed]}
August 22 – Frontier Tea Product Manufacturing, as predecessor ofIto En founded inShizuoka City.^{[page needed]}
September 25 – Two typhoons Helen and Ida landed in Japan on same days, according toJapanese government official confirmed report, total 317 persons were human fatalities with 824 persons were hurt.^[3]
November 11 -All Nippon Airways Flight 533 crashes into theSeto Inland Sea, killing all 50 on board.
Undated
- Yamanashi Women's Junior College is founded.
- Japanese birth rates plummeted due to the superstition that girls born in the year of theFire Horse will grow up to kill their husbands.

Births

January 5 -Yuri Amano, voice actress
January 17 -Jyoji Morikawa, author and illustrator
January 17 -Hiroko Mita, actress
January 28 -Seiji Mizushima,anime director
January 31 -Nobuyuki Hoshino, former professional baseball pitcher
February 4 -Kyōko Koizumi, actress and singer
February 5 -Maiko Kawakami, actress
March 7 -Atsushi Sakurai, singer (died2023)
April 3 -Mina Tominaga, voice actress
April 19 -El Samurai, professional wrestler
April 27 -Yoshihiro Togashi, author and illustrator^[4]
June 26 -Yūko Minaguchi, voice actress
July 11 -Kentaro Miura, manga artist (died2021)^[5]
July 12 -Taiji Sawada, musician (died2011)
July 15 -Masatoshi Nagase, actress
July 25 -Wataru Takagi, voice actor
July 28 -Shikao Suga, singer
August 4 -Kensuke Sasaki, professional wrestler
August 14 -Honami Suzuki, actress^[6]
August 30 -Mikako Kotani, former synchronised swimming athlete
September 2 -Yu Hayami, singer and actress
September 11 -Kiko, Crown Princess of Japan, wife ofFumihito, Crown Prince of Japan
October 8 -Toshiro Yufune, former professional baseball pitcher
October 27 -Masanobu Takashima, actor
October 31 -Koji Kanemoto, professional wrestler
November 2 -Yoshinari Ogawa, professional wrestler
November 6 -Kae Araki, voice actress
November 13 -Mieharu, actor
November 28 -Narumi Yasuda, actress
December 12 -Último Dragón, professional wrestler
December 17 -Yuko Arimori, former marathon runner
December 22 -Sayuri Kokusho, actress
December 27 -Masahiro Fukuda, former footballer

Deaths

January 10 -Nishizō Tsukahara, admiral (b.1887)
March 6 -Michitaro Totsuka, admiral (b.1890)^[7]
April 23 -George Ohsawa, dietist, founder ofMacrobiotics (b.1893)^[8]
June 7 -Yoshishige Abe, philosopher and politician (b.1883)
June 15 –Sankichi Takahashi, admiral (b.1882)
July 12 -D.T. Suzuki, philosopher (b.1870)
September 12 -Aketo Nakamura, general (b.1889)
September 13 -Tomoshige Samejima, admiral (b.1889)
November 9 -Jisaburō Ozawa, admiral (b.1886)
November 14 -Zengo Yoshida, admiral (b.1885)

See also

References

^"Hirohito | Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts".Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved27 March 2019.
^ja:菊富士ホテル火災(Japanese language edition) Retrieved on 1 August 2020.
^ja:昭和41年台風第24号、第25号(Japanese language edition) Retrieved on July 6, 2020.
^Fujie, Kazuhisa & Wyman, Walt (2005).YuYu Hakusho Uncovered: The Unofficial Guide. Tokyo, Japan: DH Publishing Inc. pp. 11–2.
^Alex Traub (May 25, 2021)."Kentaro Miura, Creator of Epic Manga 'Berserk,' Dies at 54".New York Times. RetrievedMay 30, 2022.
^"Suzuki Honami".Kotobanku. Asahi Shinbun. Retrieved24 April 2018.
^Nishida, Hiroshi."Imperial Japanese Navy, Totsuka Michitarō". Retrieved17 August 2022.
^Michio Kushi & Alex Jack (2003)Diet for a Strong Heart: Michio Kushi's Macrobiotic Dietary Guidelines, St. Martin's Griffin.

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