• Source: 2001 in Japan

      • The following is a list of events that occurred in the year 2001 in Japan. It corresponds to the year Heisei 13 (平成１３年 or 平成十三年) in the Japanese calendar.


      Incumbents


      Emperor: Akihito
      Prime Minister: Yoshiro Mori (L–Ishikawa) until April 26, Junichiro Koizumi (L–Kanagawa)
      Chief Cabinet Secretary: Yasuo Fukuda (L–Gunma)
      Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Shigeru Yamaguchi
      Speaker of the House of Representatives: Tamisuke Watanuki (L–Toyama)
      President of the House of Councillors: Yutaka Inoue (L–Chiba), reelected August 7
      Diet sessions: 151st (regular, January 31 to June 29), 152nd (extraordinary, August 7 to August 10), 153rd (extraordinary, September 27 to December 7)


      = Governors

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      Aichi Prefecture: Masaaki Kanda
      Akita Prefecture: Sukeshiro Terata
      Aomori Prefecture: Morio Kimura
      Chiba Prefecture: Takeshi Numata (until 4 April); Akiko Dōmoto (starting 4 April)
      Ehime Prefecture: Moriyuki Kato
      Fukui Prefecture: Yukio Kurita
      Fukuoka Prefecture: Wataru Asō
      Fukushima Prefecture: Eisaku Satō
      Gifu Prefecture: Taku Kajiwara
      Gunma Prefecture: Hiroyuki Kodera
      Hiroshima Prefecture: Yūzan Fujita
      Hokkaido: Tatsuya Hori
      Hyogo Prefecture: Toshitami Kaihara (until 31 July); Toshizō Ido (starting 1 August)
      Ibaraki Prefecture: Masaru Hashimoto
      Ishikawa Prefecture: Masanori Tanimoto
      Iwate Prefecture: Hiroya Masuda
      Kagawa Prefecture: Takeki Manabe
      Kagoshima Prefecture: Tatsurō Suga
      Kanagawa Prefecture: Hiroshi Okazaki
      Kochi Prefecture: Daijiro Hashimoto
      Kumamoto Prefecture: Yoshiko Shiotani
      Kyoto Prefecture: Teiichi Aramaki
      Mie Prefecture: Masayasu Kitagawa
      Miyagi Prefecture: Shirō Asano
      Miyazaki Prefecture: Suketaka Matsukata
      Nagano Prefecture: Yasuo Tanaka
      Nagasaki Prefecture: Genjirō Kaneko
      Nara Prefecture: Yoshiya Kakimoto
      Niigata Prefecture: Ikuo Hirayama
      Oita Prefecture: Morihiko Hiramatsu
      Okayama Prefecture: Masahiro Ishii
      Okinawa Prefecture: Keiichi Inamine
      Osaka Prefecture: Fusae Ōta
      Saga Prefecture: Isamu Imoto
      Saitama Prefecture: Yoshihiko Tsuchiya
      Shiga Prefecture: Yoshitsugu Kunimatsu
      Shiname Prefecture: Nobuyoshi Sumita
      Shizuoka Prefecture: Yoshinobu Ishikawa
      Tochigi Prefecture: Akio Fukuda
      Tokushima Prefecture: Toshio Endo
      Tokyo: Shintarō Ishihara
      Tottori Prefecture: Yoshihiro Katayama
      Toyama Prefecture: Yutaka Nakaoki
      Wakayama Prefecture: Yoshiki Kimura
      Yamagata Prefecture: Kazuo Takahashi
      Yamaguchi Prefecture: Sekinari Nii
      Yamanashi Prefecture: Ken Amano


      Events




      = January

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      January 6: Nurse Daisuke Mori arrested for an attempted murder of 11-year-old girl.
      January 26: A JR yamanote line train coming into Shin-Ōkubo Station hits and kills a man who fell off the platform and two others who jumped onto the rails to rescue him.
      January 31: 2001 Japan Airlines mid-air incident


      = February

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      February 9: The fishing boat Ehime Maru is struck by a U.S. submarine and sunk.


      = March

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      March 21: The Nintendo Game Boy Advance handheld is released.
      March 24: 2001 Geiyo earthquake, kill two people with injure 288 in Hiroshima and Ehime.
      March 27: Hikaru Saeki became the first female star officer (admiral and general) in the history of the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF).
      March 31: Universal Studios Japan opens in Osaka.


      = April

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      April 1: Sakura Bank and Sumitomo Bank merge to form Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.
      April 6: Japanese government institutes new overtime regulations.
      April 24: Junichiro Koizumi defeats Ryutaro Hashimoto in LDP polls to become prime minister.
      April 26: Koizumi announces his first cabinet, with Makiko Tanaka as foreign minister and Heizo Takenaka as Minister of State for the Economy.


      = June

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      June 8: Ikeda school massacre takes place.


      = July

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      July 13: Osaka is removed on the first ballot for the site of the 2008 Summer Olympics.
      July 20: Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away premieres; it becomes the first anime film to win an Academy Award.
      July 29: 2001 Japanese House of Councillors election.


      = August

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      August 13: Koizumi visits Yasukuni Shrine, angering China and South Korea.
      August 16–26: The sixth World Games are held in Akita.
      August 29: The first H-IIA rocket is launched from Tanegashima Space Center.


      = September

      =
      September 1: Myojo 56 building fire kills 44.
      September 4: Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.
      September 11: The first case of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in Japan is discovered.
      September 12: Following the September 11 attacks in the United States, the Nikkei 225 index drops below 10,000 for the first time since 1984.
      September 14: The Nintendo GameCube is released.


      = October

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      October 1: Ghibli Museum opens.
      October 18: The East Japan Railway Company introduces the Suica smart card service to the Tokyo area.


      = December

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      December 1: Princess Aiko, potential heiress to the Imperial throne, is born.
      December 9: Television performer Masashi Tashiro is arrested for peeping in a male bath-house.
      December 21: TIME removes Masashi Tashiro from its "Person of the Year" poll after 2channel users vote the "bad boy" performer into first place.


      The Nobel Prize


      Ryoji Noyori: 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner.


      Births


      January 2: Wakaba Higuchi, figure skater
      February 2: Maria Makino, pop singer
      February 4: Fūka Haruna, actress
      May 24: Noa Tsurushima, actress
      May 28: Rikako Sasaki, singer
      June 18: Nako Yabuki, singer
      June 19: Natsumi Sakai, swimmer
      June 25: Yurina Hirate, idol singer
      August 4: Seishiro Kato, actor
      August 31: Nana Mori, actress
      October 1: Pankun, chimpanzee
      October 6: Hitomi Honda, singer
      November 3: Rōki Sasaki, professional baseball pitcher (Chiba Marines)
      December 1: Princess Aiko, the daughter and only child of Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako


      Deaths


      March 9: Mitsuo Kagawa, archaeologist (b. 1923)
      April 7: Yasuhira Kiyohara, lieutenant of the Imperial army (b. 1914)
      May 17: Hyōichi Kōno, adventurer (b. 1958)
      July 24: Hiroshi Tsuburaya, actor (b. 1964)
      July 28: Futaro Yamada, author (b. 1922)
      August 25: Ginzō Matsuo, voice actor (b. 1951)
      September 9: Shinji Sōmai, film director (b. 1948)
      September 28: Isao Inokuma, judoka (b. 1938)
      September 30: Takasi Tokioka, zoologist (b. 1913)
      October 11: Fuku Akino, painter (b. 1908)
      November 7: Sachiko Hidari, film actress (b. 1930)
      November 15: Satoru Kobayashi, film director (b. 1930)
      November 30: Kikutaro Baba, malacologist (b. 1905)
      December 20: Kōji Nanbara, actor (b. 1927)
      December 22: Shizue Kato, politician and activist (b. 1897)
      December 29: Takashi Asahina, conductor (b. 1908)


      See also


      2001 in Japanese television
      List of Japanese films of 2001


      References

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