1974 in Japan
Events in the year 1974 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 49 (昭和49年) in the Japanese calendar.
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Incumbents
- Emperor: Hirohito[1]
- Prime minister: Kakuei Tanaka (Liberal Democratic) until December 9, Takeo Miki (Liberal Democratic)
- Chief Cabinet Secretary: Susumu Nikaido until November 11, Noboru Takeshita until December 9, Ichitaro Ide
- Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Tomokazu Murakami
- President of the House of Representatives: Shigesaburō Maeo
- President of the House of Councillors: Kenzō Kōno
- Diet sessions: 72nd (regular session opened in December 1, 1973, to June 3), 73rd (extraordinary, July 24 to July 31), 74th (extraordinary, December 9 to December 25), 75th (regular, December 27 to July 4, 1975)
Events
- May 9 - A magnitude 6.9 earthquake strikes the Izu Peninsula, killing 30 and injuring 102.
- May 27 – Keyence was founded.
- June 20 – Daito Industry, as predecessor of Daito Trust Construction founded in Chikusa-ku, Nagoya.
- August 30 - A powerful bomb blast in Marunouchi business area, Tokyo, according to official confirmed resulting, 8 person fatalities, 376 were injures.[2]
- November 9 - A LPG carrier, Juyo Maru 10 collision with Liberian cargo ship Pacific Ares, following caught fire in Tokyo Bay, according to Marine Safety Agency of Japan confirmed official, 33 persons lost to lives.[3]
- December 18 – According to Japanese government official confirmed report, A petroleum tank broken in Mizushima refinery, Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture, in affective 80,000 litter crude oil spill and contamination tide was widely Seto Inland Sea area, these place recoveries spend for more two years.[4]
Births
- February 7 -
- Jun Seba, aka Nujabes, hip-hop producer
- Yō Yoshida, actress
- February 27 - Hiroyasu Shimizu, speed skater
- March 28 - Daisuke Kishio, voice actor
- March 30 - Miho Komatsu, pop singer and songwriter
- June 13 - Takahiro Sakurai, voice actor
- June 17 - Mikiyo Ōno, model, actress and J-pop singer
- October 8 - Koji Murofushi, hammer thrower
- November 8 - Masashi Kishimoto, manga author
- December 4 - Tadahito Iguchi, baseball player
- December 27 - Fumiko Orikasa, voice actress and singer
Deaths
- March 1 – Kōtarō Tanaka, jurist and law professor (b. 1890)
- August 11 – Fusako Kitashirakawa, seventh daughter of Emperor Meiji (b. 1890)
- December 24 – Sentarō Ōmori, admiral (b. 1892)
gollark: Sad!
gollark: Probably memory bandwidth, since IIRC most things only have something like 32 bytes/second even to cache.
gollark: They have AVX and stuff. Not "muahahaha 32768 bits per clock cycle".
gollark: I wonder why this sort of thing doesn't exist on general purpose CPU architectures. Probably just horrible memory bandwidth requirements/accursedly large register files.
gollark: In terms of total throughput, I mean.
References
- "Hirohito | Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- ja:三菱重工爆破事件 (Japanese language) Retrieved on February 4, 2017.
- ja:第十雄洋丸事件 (Japanese language) Retrieved on February 4, 2017.
- ja:JXTGエネルギー水島#事故 (Japanese language edition) Retriveted date on June 19, 2020.
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