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Events in the year1985 in Japan which correspond toShōwa 60 (昭和60年) in theJapanese calendar.

Incumbents

Emperor:Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa)^[1]
Prime Minister:Yasuhiro Nakasone (L–Gunma, 2nd term)
Chief Cabinet Secretary:Takao Fujinami (L–Mie) until December 28, Masaharu Gotōda (L–Tokushima)
Chief Justice of theSupreme Court: Jirō Terata until November 3, Kōichi Yaguchi from November 5
President of theHouse of Representatives:Kenji Fukunaga (L–Saitama) until January 24, Michita Sakata (L–Kumamoto)
President of theHouse of Councillors: Mutsuo Kimura (L–Okayama)
Diet sessions: 102nd (regular session opened in December 1984, to June 25), 103rd (extraordinary, October 14 to December 21), 104th (regular, December 24 to 1986, May 22)

Governors

Aichi Prefecture:Reiji Suzuki
Akita Prefecture:Kikuji Sasaki
Aomori Prefecture:Masaya Kitamura
Chiba Prefecture:Takeshi Numata
Ehime Prefecture:Haruki Shiraishi
Fukui Prefecture:Heidayū Nakagawa
Fukuoka Prefecture:Hachiji Okuda
Fukushima Prefecture:Isao Matsudaira
Gifu Prefecture:Yosuke Uematsu
Gunma Prefecture:Ichiro Shimizu
Hiroshima Prefecture:Toranosuke Takeshita
Hokkaido:Takahiro Yokomichi
Hyogo Prefecture:Tokitada Sakai
Ibaraki Prefecture:Fujio Takeuchi
Ishikawa Prefecture:Yōichi Nakanishi
Iwate Prefecture:Tadashi Nakamura [ja]
Kagawa Prefecture:Tadao Maekawa
Kagoshima Prefecture:Kaname Kamada
Kanagawa Prefecture:Kazuji Nagasu
Kochi Prefecture:Chikara Nakauchi
Kumamoto Prefecture:Morihiro Hosokawa
Kyoto Prefecture:Yukio Hayashida
Mie Prefecture:Ryōzō Tagawa
Miyagi Prefecture:Sōichirō Yamamoto
Miyazaki Prefecture:Suketaka Matsukata
Nagano Prefecture:Gorō Yoshimura
Nagasaki Prefecture:Isamu Takada
Nara Prefecture:Shigekiyo Ueda
Niigata Prefecture:Takeo Kimi
Oita Prefecture:Morihiko Hiramatsu
Okayama Prefecture:Shiro Nagano
Okinawa Prefecture:Junji Nishime
Osaka Prefecture:Sakae Kishi
Saga Prefecture:Kumao Katsuki
Saitama Prefecture:Yawara Hata
Shiga Prefecture:Masayoshi Takemura
Shiname Prefecture:Seiji Tsunematsu
Shizuoka Prefecture:Keizaburō Yamamoto
Tochigi Prefecture:Fumio Watanabe
Tokushima Prefecture:Shinzo Miki
Tokyo:Shun'ichi Suzuki
Tottori Prefecture:Yuji Nishio
Toyama Prefecture:Yutaka Nakaoki
Wakayama Prefecture:Shirō Kariya
Yamagata Prefecture:Seiichirō Itagaki
Yamaguchi Prefecture:Toru Hirai
Yamanashi Prefecture:Kōmei Mochizuki

Events

Ōnaruto Bridge, completed in 1985.

January 28 – twenty-five people were killed when a charter bus carrying students on aski tour plunged into a river inNagano.^[2]
March 17 — September 16 –Expo '85 was held at theTsukuba, Ibaraki prefecture.
May 17 – sixty-two people were killed after a gas explosion in a Mitsubishi Yubari coal mine, located inYubari, Hokkaido.^[3]
June 23 –1985 Narita International Airport bombing; two people were killed.
August 7 –Takao Doi,Mamoru Mohri andChiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's firstastronauts.
August 12 –Japan Air Lines Flight 123 crashes intoMount Takamagahara. All fifteen crew members and five hundred-five passengers died.^[4]
September 13 -Super Mario Bros. was released.

Popular culture

Arts and entertainment

See also:1985 in anime and1985 in Japanese television

Film:Gray Sunset, directed byShunya Ito, won the Best Film award at theJapan Academy Prize.Ran won Best film at theBlue Ribbon Awards.Sorekara won Best film at theHochi Film Awards andLove Hotel won Best film at theYokohama Film Festival. For a list of Japanese films released in 1985, please seeJapanese films of 1985.
Manga:Bari Bari Densetsu byShuichi Shigeno (shōnen) andOkashina Futari byJūzō Yamasaki and Kei Sadayasu andMahiro Taiken by Naomi Nishi (both tied for general manga) won theKodansha Manga Award. The winners of theShogakukan Manga Award wereBokkemon byTakashi Iwashige (general),Hatsukoi Scandal andTobe! Jinrui II byAkira Oze (shōnen),Zenryaku Milk House byYumiko Kawahara (shōjo) andAsari-chan byMayumi Muroyama (children).^[5]Appleseed byMasamune Shirow won theSeiun Award for Best Comic of the Year.
Music: the Red Team won the 36thKōhaku Uta Gassen. They were: Hidemi Ishikawa,Naoko Kawai,Teresa Teng,Kyōko Koizumi,Yoshie Kashiwabara,Hiromi Iwasaki,Akina Nakamori,Rumiko Koyanagi,Naoko Ken,Nobue Matsuhara,Yū Hayami,Seiko Matsuda,Tomoyo Harada,Miyuki Kawanaka, Kyoko Suizenji,Chiyoko Shimakura,Aki Yashiro,Sayuri Ishikawa,Sachiko Kobayashi andMasako Mori.Masahiko Kondō won theJapan Music Awards and the Nippon Television Music Festival. Akina Nakamori won the27th Japan Record Awards^[6] and theFNS Music Festival with the songMeu amor é. The May edition of theYamaha Popular Song Contest was won byROLL-BACK with the songYou & Me Tonight.
Japan hosted theMiss International 1985 beauty pageant, won byNina Sicilia fromVenezuela.

Sports

Japan hosted the1985 Summer Universiade, where the country placed 6th with a total of 16 medals, 6 of which were gold. TheSoviet Union had the highest total number of medals with 84, and the highest number of gold medals with 42.
Inbadminton, Japan hosted the1985 World Badminton Grand Prix, won byHan Jian (men's singles) andLi Lingwei (women's singles), both from China. At theJapanese National Badminton Championships,Hiroyuki Hasegawa won the Men's singles,Sumiko Kitada the Women's singles,Shinji Matsuura andShūji Matsuno the Men's doubles,Kazuko Takamine andKazue Hoshi the Women's doubles andAkio Tomita andMichiko Tomita the Mixed doubles.
Inbaseball, theHanshin Tigers won the1985 Japan Series against theSeibu Lions. TheMVP in the Central League wasRandy Bass and in thePacific League Hiromitsu Ochiai.
Inbasketball, the All Japan Intercollegiate Basketball Championship was won byNippon Sport Science.
Infigure skating, Japan hosted the1985 World Figure Skating Championships, with the Soviet Union topping the medals table with the most gold and overall total medals. The winners of the 1984–1985Japan Figure Skating Championships wereMasaru Ogawa (men),Midori Ito (women) andNoriko Sato andTadayuki Takahashi in ice dancing.
Infootball (soccer), Japan hosted the final of the1985 Intercontinental Cup betweenJuventus FC andArgentinos Juniors, which Juventus won in a 4-2 penalty shootout. Furukawa Electric (currently theJEF United Ichihara Chiba) won the1985–86 Japan Soccer League. Nissan Motor Company (currently theYokohama F. Marinos) won theEmperor's Cup. For the champions of theregional leagues see:Japanese Regional Leagues 1985.
Injudo, Japan hosted the1985 Asian Judo Championships and topped the medals table with the most gold and overall total medals tied with China.
Inrugby union,Ireland toured Japan.
Inswimming, Japan hosted thefirst Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.
Intennis, Japan hosted the1985 Federation Cup, won byCzechoslovakia.

Births

January 5 –Yuka Koide, model and actress
January 11 –Rie fu, singer-songwriter
January 17 –Riyu Kosaka, J-pop singer
January 20 –Marina Inoue, voice actress and singer
January 22 –Akira Nagata, singer (Run&Gun), actor and voice actor
January 28 –Aya Miyama, football player
January 29
- Joji Takeuchi, basketball player
- Kosuke Takeuchi, basketball player
February 6
- Joji Kato, speedskater
- Saki Kagami, actress
February 17 –Hiroko Sato, actress, singer
February 28 –Rin Aoki, model and AV actress
March 6 -Maya Nakanishi, Paralympic athlete
March 8 –Mio Takeuchi, actress
March 24
- Haruka Ayase, actress
- Sayaka Hirano, table tennis player^[7]
March 25 –Yūsuke Kobayashi, Japanese voice actor^[8]
March 28 –Akiko Suzuki, figure skater
April 9 –Tomohisa Yamashita, idol, singer
April 21 –Takuro Fujii, swimmer
April 24 —Kaori Nazuka, voice actress^[9]
April 26 –Adachi Yurie, ice hockey player
May 5 –Shoko Nakagawa, actress, voice actress and singer
May 11 –Sifow, singer
May 13 –Yusuke Minato, Nordic combined skier
May 29
- Nozomi Komuro, skeleton racer
- Yukihiro Takiguchi, Japanese actor, singer and model (d.2019)^[10]
June 2 —Miyuki Sawashiro, voice actress^[11]
June 7 —Marie Miyake, voice actress
June 19 –Ai Miyazato, golfer
June 22 —Rosa Kato, actress and model
June 23 —Kavka Shishido, drummer and vocalist
June 27 –Hiroyuki Taniguchi, football player
July 3 –Keisuke Minami, actor, singer^[12]
July 11
- Aki Maeda, actress, singer
- Takahisa Nishiyama, football player
July 16
- Yōko Hikasa, Japanese actress
- Hiroyuki Onoue, Japanese actor
July 22 –Akira Tozawa, professional wrestler
August 17 —Yū Aoi, actress and model
August 25 –Naho Emoto, baseball player
September 1 –Kosuke Nakamachi, football player
September 2 –Hiroyuki Oze, baseball player (d.2010)
September 3 –Yūki Kaji, voice actor
September 10
- Aya Kamiki, singer
- Shota Matsuda, actor
September 11 –Kazutaka Murase, football player
September 13 –Emi Suzuki, Chinese-born Japanese female model^[13]
September 20 –Mami Yamasaki, gravure idol
September 23 –Maki Goto, singer, lyricist and former actress^[14]
September 24 –Yōhei Kajiyama, football player
September 25 –Asami Tanno, sprinter
October 3 –Megumi Takamoto, voice actress and singer
October 6 –Yasuharu Nanri, figure skater
October 8 –Eiji Wentz, singer, entertainer, and actor
October 13 –Yoshihisa Naruse, baseball player
October 18 –Iori Nomizu, voice actress, actress and singer
October 21 –Yasuhiro Inaba, freestyle wrestler
October 22
- Manpei Takagi, actor
- Shinpei Takagi, actor
November 18 –Hiromi Miyake, weightlifter
November 25 –Masatsugu Kawachi, boxer
November 30
- Hikari Mitsushima, actress, singer
- Aoi Miyazaki, actress
December 14
- Katsuya Kitamura, wrestler (d.2022)
- Nonami Takizawa, actress
December 15 –Madoka Harada, luger
December 16 –Keita Tachibana, singer
December 22 –Yuta Ikeda, golfer
December 26 –Yuu Shirota, actor
December 27 –Daiki Ito, ski jumper

Unknown date

Deaths

January 9 –Nichidatsu Fujii, Buddhist monk (b.1885)
January 27 –Masahisa Takenaka, 4thkumicho of the Yamaguchi-gumi (b.1933)
January 31 –Tatsuzō Ishikawa, novelist (b.1905)
March 30
- Kenkichi Oshima, athlete (b.1908)
- Yaeko Nogami, author (b.1885)
- Shizuko Kasagi, singer (b.1914)
April 12 –Seiji Miyaguchi, actor (b.1913)
June 9 –Matsutarō Kawaguchi, novelist (b.1899)
June 24 –Kuninori Marumo, admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy (b.1891)
July 7 –Shōzō Sakurai, general (b.1899)
August 12 –Kyu Sakamoto, singer and actor (b.1941)
August 17 –Matsuo Kishi, film critic, filmmaker (b.1906)
September 11 –Masako Natsume, model and actress (b.1957)
September 27 –Ryūtarō Ōtomo, film actor (b.1912)
October 13 –Eiji Kanie, voice actor (b.1941)
October 21 –Masuiyama Daishirō I, sumo wrestler (b.1919)
October 26 –Kikuko Kawakami, author (b.1904)
November 1 –Ōuchiyama Heikichi, sumo wrestler (b.1926)
December 21 –Kamatari Fujiwara, actor (b.1905)
December 24 –Kouzou Sasaki, politician, chairman of theJapan Socialist Party (b.1900)

See also

References

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^"25 Killed In Bus Crash".AP NEWS. Archived fromthe original on October 9, 2019. Retrieved2019-10-09.
^Ap (1985-05-18)."Explosion in Japanese Coal Mine Leaves 62 Dead and Others Hurt".The New York Times.ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved2019-10-09.
^"524 Feared Dead as Packed Jetliner Crashes in Japan: Toll Would Be Worst for Single Plane".Los Angeles Times. 1985-08-12. Retrieved2024-08-03.
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