2018 in Japan

The following is an overview of the year 2018 in Japan.

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Incumbents

Events

January
heavy snow hit in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture on 22 January
  • 22 to 23 January : A heavy snowfall hits around Tokyo Metropolitan Area. According to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency of Japan in a confirmed report, 956 people were injured.[2]
  • 23 January : Mount Kusatsu-Shirane erupts. According to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency of Japan in a confirmed report, 1 fatality results and 11 people are injured in Gunma Prefecture.[3]
  • 31 January : A fire burns an elderly support facility in Higashi-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido. According to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency of Japan in a confirmed report, 11 people died, with three injured.[4]

February
  • 5 to 8 February : A heavy snowfall hits the Sea of Japan. According to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency of Japan in a confirmed report, 22 people died, with 320 injures.[5]

March
  • 1 to 12 March : According to the Japan Meteorological Agency in a confirmed report, a volcano erupts in Shinmoedake, Kyushu Island.[6][7]
  • 12 March : According to the Japanese Government, an official confirmed that the Japan Ministry of Finance rewrote 14 decision documents in accordance with the response about a cooperative school in Osaka Prefecture to the National Assembly in 2017.[8]
  • 13 March : According to the Japan Forestry and Forest Products Research Institute, an official report confirmed the Kumano cherry tree (Kumanozakura) as a new species Cherry tree (Sakura). The tree was discovered widely throughout the Kii peninsula. The last new type of Sakura tree found in Japan was in 1915.[9]

April
  • 8 April : According to National Police Agency of Japan official confirmed report, a thirty-eight years old men arrested on suspicion of five local residents murdered, and suspects confessed in Hioki, Kagoshima Prefecture.
  • 9 April : A Richer Scale 5.7 magnitude earthquake hit in Oda, Shimane Prefecture, according to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency of Japan in a confirmed report, nine person were injures.
  • 11 April : According to the Fire and Disaster Management Agency of Japan in a confirmed report, a sudden landslide occurred on a mountain slope in Yabakei, Nakatsu, Oita Prefecture, where six person fatalities in the incident.
  • 19 April : According to a Japan Meteorological Agency confirmed report, Mount Iou erupted for the first time since 1768 in border between Miyazaki Prefecture and Kagoshima Prefecture.[10]

May

June
Damage done by the 2018 Osaka earthquake, in Ibaraki, Osaka Prefecture on 18 June.
  • 9 June - According to the Japan National Police Agency in a confirmed report, 22-year-old unemployed Ichiro Kojima was detained by police after stabbing 3 passengers, killing one, on a bullet train leading from Tokyo to Shin-Osaka, nearby Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture.
  • 18 June - 2018 Osaka earthquake, According to Japan Fire and Disaster Management Agency in a confirmed report, a 5.5 Richter scale earthquake killed four and injured 434 people in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture.
  • 26 June - According to Japan National Police Agency confirmed report, a man murdered the police officer in policebox, depriving the handgun and escaping, after a man killed to a security guard man near a nearby elementary school in Toyama City. A twenty-two years old detained, after critical condition by with attempted suicide.
  • 29 June - According to Japan Meteorological Agency confirmed report, a F2 level tornado hit in around area of Maibara, Shiga Prefecture. According to local government official confirmed, many houses were collapsed and damaged, total eight person were wounded.

July
  • 28 June – 9 July: 2018 Japan floods - Heavy floods was started in western areas of Japan, most in the Hiroshima Prefecture, which has been hit by torrential rain. As of 20 July, 225 people were killed, another 13 were declared missing and 1.5 million people were displaced.[11]
  • 9 July – 26 August: The 2018 Northeast Asia heat wave kills least 116 people, due to heat-related causes, and at least 22,000 more suffer from heat strokes
  • 26 July: A fire at under constructing technology centre fire in Tama City, Tokyo. According to Fire and Disaster Management Agency confirmed report, total five workers fatalities with 42 were injures.[12]

August

September
Accident occurs when the roof falls in Tsurumi-ku, Osaka, affective by Typhoon Jebi on 5 September 2018
Retired singer, Namie Amuro in 2017

October

November
  • 19 November - According to Tokyo District Public Prosecutors Office Special Prosecutors Department official confirmed report, Carlos Ghosn, CEO of Nissan Motor, was arrested by the prosecutor special authority for alleged false statement of the securities report that he declared the compensation inexorably. Ghosn president position and position of representative director of Nissan, succeeded at the Board of Directors on 22 November.
  • 23 November - Osaka decide on the venue on Expo 2025 the winner at BIE's 164th General Assembly.
  • 26 November - According to Japan National Police Agency confirmed report, six person were murdered, with a suspicion suicide onto Gokase River, in Takachiho, Miyazaki Prefecture.

December
  • 26 December - Japan announced that since the International Whaling Commission IWC failed its duty to promote sustainable hunting, which is one of its stated goals, Japan is withdrawing its membership and will resume commercial hunting in its territorial waters and exclusive economic zone from July 2019, but will cease whaling activities in the Antarctic Ocean.[17][18]
  • 27 December - Japan executes two more prisoners, bringing 2018 executions to 15 taking annual total to highest since 2008.[19][20][21]

Arts and entertainment

Sports
  • 4 January – the Wrestle Kingdom 12, a professional wrestling event promoted by New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), took place in Tokyo

Deaths

January
Senichi Hoshino
Jiichiro Date at the 1976 Olympics
Isao Takahata
Takeshi Onaga
Kirin Kiki

February

March

April
  • 5 April – Isao Takahata, film director (b. 1935)
  • 21 April – Nabi Tajima, supercentenarian (b. 1900)
  • 23 April – Sachio Kinugasa, baseball player (b. 1947)
  • 27 April – Yukiji Asaoka, actress (b. 1935)

May

June
  • 18 June – Go Kato, actor (b. 1938)

July

August

September

October

November

December

Elections

National

Prefectural

Major municipal

AKB48 Senbatsu Sousenkyo
  • The 53rd single 10th Sekai Senbatsu Sousenkyo was held on Nagoya Stadium, Aichi Prefecture, Japan on June 16, 2018

Final Senbatsu Results:

References
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  2. 1月22日からの大雪等による被害状況等について（第6報） Archived 2018-03-20 at the Wayback Machine Format:PDF. Fire and Disaster Management Agency of Japan(Japanese Language edition) Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  3. 本白根山の火山活動による被害及び消防機関等の対応状況等（第9報） Archived 2018-03-20 at the Wayback Machine Format:PDF. Fire and Disaster Management Agency of Japan(Japanese Language edition) Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  4. 札幌市下宿火災（第4報） Archived 2018-03-20 at the Wayback Machine Format:PDF. Fire and Disaster Management Agency of Japan(Japanese Language edition) Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  5. 2月4日からの大雪等による被害状況等について（第15報） Archived 2018-03-20 at the Wayback Machine Format:PDF. Fire and Disaster Management Agency of Japan(Japanese Language edition) Retrieved 20 March 2018.
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  7. 平成30年 No.10 週間火山概況（3月2日～3月8日） Japan Meteorological Agency(Japanese Language edition) Retrieved 20 March 2018.
  8. 森友学園問題 (Japanese Language edition) Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  9. 新種の野生サクラ確認 １０３年ぶり、紀伊半島で The Asahi Shimbun(Japanese Language edition) Retrieved 20 March 2018.
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  12. ja:多摩テクノロジービルディング建設現場火災 (Japanese language) Retibute date 2 August 2018.
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