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    • Source: 2013 in Japan

      • Events in the year 2013 in Japan.


      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)


      = Governors

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      Aichi Prefecture: Hideaki Omura
      Akita Prefecture: Norihisa Satake
      Aomori Prefecture: Shingo Mimura
      Chiba Prefecture: Kensaku Morita
      Ehime Prefecture: Tokihiro Nakamura
      Fukui Prefecture: Issei Nishikawa
      Fukuoka Prefecture: Hiroshi Ogawa
      Fukushima Prefecture: Yūhei Satō
      Gifu Prefecture: Hajime Furuta
      Gunma Prefecture: Masaaki Osawa
      Hiroshima Prefecture: Hidehiko Yuzaki
      Hokkaido: Harumi Takahashi
      Hyogo Prefecture: Toshizō Ido
      Ibaraki Prefecture: Masaru Hashimoto
      Ishikawa Prefecture: Masanori Tanimoto
      Iwate Prefecture: Takuya Tasso
      Kagawa Prefecture: Keizō Hamada
      Kagoshima Prefecture: Satoshi Mitazono
      Kanagawa Prefecture: Yuji Kuroiwa
      Kochi Prefecture: Masanao Ozaki
      Kumamoto Prefecture: Ikuo Kabashima
      Kyoto Prefecture: Keiji Yamada
      Mie Prefecture: Eikei Suzuki
      Miyagi Prefecture: Yoshihiro Murai
      Miyazaki Prefecture: Shunji Kōno
      Nagano Prefecture: Shuichi Abe
      Nagasaki Prefecture: Hōdō Nakamura
      Nara Prefecture: Shōgo Arai
      Niigata Prefecture: Hirohiko Izumida
      Oita Prefecture: Katsusada Hirose
      Okayama Prefecture: Ryuta Ibaragi
      Okinawa Prefecture: Hirokazu Nakaima
      Osaka Prefecture: Ichirō Matsui
      Saga Prefecture: Yasushi Furukawa
      Saitama Prefecture: Kiyoshi Ueda
      Shiga Prefecture: Yukiko Kada
      Shiname Prefecture: Zenbe Mizoguchi
      Shizuoka Prefecture: Heita Kawakatsu
      Tochigi Prefecture: Tomikazu Fukuda
      Tokushima Prefecture: Kamon Iizumi
      Tokyo: Naoki Inose (until 24 December); Tatsumi Ando (starting 24 December)
      Tottori Prefecture: Shinji Hirai
      Toyama Prefecture: Takakazu Ishii
      Wakayama Prefecture: Yoshinobu Nisaka
      Yamagata Prefecture: Mieko Yoshimura
      Yamaguchi Prefecture: Tsugumasa Muraoka
      Yamanashi Prefecture: Shōmei Yokouchi


      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 to October – 2013 Japanese heatwave, according to Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare official confirmed report, 1,077 person lost to lives, caused by heat stroke, second worst heatwave disaster in Japan.
      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 – 2013 Japanese House of Councillors election, Hyōgo gubernatorial election
      August 15 – An explosion at the 2013 Fukuchiyama Firework Festival event kills 3, injures 59.
      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.
      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.
      October 27 – Miyagi gubernatorial election: Incumbent governor Yoshihiro Murai's only challenger is JCP-supported lawyer Masaaki Satō.
      November 10 – Hiroshima gubernatorial election – Hidehiko Yuzaki re-elected.
      December 6 – Special Secrecy Law passes the National Diet
      December 19 – Naoki Inose announces his resignation as Governor of Tokyo following allegations of dubious loans from the Tokushukai medical group


      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 an overview of anime, see 2013 in anime. For Japanese films first released this year, see the list of Japanese films of 2013. For an overview of manga, see 2013 in manga. For an overview of music, see 2013 in Japanese music. 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

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      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
      February 18 – Chieko Honda, voice actress (b. 1963)
      April 4 – Noboru Yamaguchi, writer
      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)
      October 28 – Tetsuharu Kawakami, baseball player (b. 1920)
      November 13 – Chieko Aioi, actress


      See also


      2013 in Japanese music
      2013 in Japanese television
      List of Japanese films of 2013


      References

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