Events in the year 1945 in Japan.
1945 was the last year of World War II and the first year of the Allied occupation.
Incumbents
Governors
Events
- February 18 - U.S. Marines land on Iwo Jima.
- March 10 - Major bombing of Tokyo
- March 12 - First bombing of Nagoya.
- March 13 - First bombing of Osaka.
- March 26 - U.S. forces win the Battle of Iwo Jima, defeating the last remaining troops led by Tadamichi Kuribayashi.
- April 7 - The Japanese battleship Yamato is sunk.
- April 7 - Koiso Cabinet resigns and KantarÃ
 Suzuki forms his cabinet.
- May 24 - Second major bombing of Tokyo.
- May 29 - First bombing of Yokohama.
- July 26 - Allies issue Potsdam Declaration; Japan refuses to agree to its terms.
- August 6 - Atomic bombing of Hiroshima.
- August 8 - Soviet Union declares war on Japan.
- August 9 - Atomic bombing of Nagasaki.
- August 15 - Last Allied bombing of Japan takes place in Odawara and Tsuchizaki.
- August 15 - Emperor Hirohito declares Japan's acceptance of the Potsdam Declaration.
- August 30 - Douglas MacArthur arrives in Japan.
- September 2 - Japanese officials sign instrument of surrender on the deck of the USS Missouri.
- 24 September - Hirohito says that he did not want war and blames Tojo for the attack on Pearl Harbor
- October 2 - Office of the Supreme Commander Allied Powers is established at the Dai-Ichi Seimei Building in Tokyo.
- October 5 - Higashikuni Cabinet resigns.
- October 9 - Shidehara Cabinet is formed.
- October 15 - Peace Preservation Law is repealed.
- October 31 – A news agency, DÃ
Âmei, officially disbanded, on following day, the news agency operation in nationwide, which separated into KyÃ
ÂdÃ
 News Service and Jiji Press.
- November 6 – According to Japan Coast Guard official confirmed report, a passenger ship Toyo-maru No 10, capsized off Hakata Island, Seto Inland Sea, Ehime Prefecture, 397 persons were perished.
- November 12 – According to Fukuoka Prefecture official confirmed report, a large scale explosion, while to Allied Peacekeeping Forces were disposing of weapons hidden by Japanese Imperial Army in Futamata Tunnel in Soeda, Kyushu Island, 147 persons were killed and 149 persons were wounded.
- December 9 – According to Japan Coast Guard official confirmed report, a passenger ship Sekirei-maru capsized by overcapacity and rough sea off Akashi, Hyogo Prefecture, total 304 persons were their lost to lives.
- December 17 - Women's suffrage is granted in Diet elections.
- December 18 - House of Representatives is dissolved: First post-WWII general election called for April 1, 1946.
Births
- January 6:
- Chieko Matsubara, actress
- Toshiko Hamayotsu, politician (d. 2020)
- January 29: Yoko Shinozaki, volleyball player
- February 16: Masataka Itsumi, television announcer and singer (d. 1993)
- February 25: Toshikatsu Matsuoka, politician (d. 2007)
- March 7: Sadakazu Tanigaki, politician
- March 13: Sayuri Yoshinaga, actress
- March 14: Komaki Kurihara, actress
- June 9: YÃ
«ji Aoki, manga artist (d. 2003)
- June 14: Hiroshi Miyauchi, actor
- July 6: KyÃ
ÂzÃ
 Nagatsuka, actor
- July 7: Ikezawa Natsuki, author
- July 10: Katsuji Mori, voice actor and narrator
- July 19: Kenji Kimura, volleyball player
- July 25: Masakatsu Morita, Tatenokai member (d. 1970)
- August 6: Yoshinori Sakai, Olympic flame torchbearer (d. 2014)
- August 20: Tomio Sumimoto, sprint canoer
- August 22: Tamori, comedian and television entertainer
- September 3: Fusako Shigenobu, leader of Japanese Red Army
- September 12: Yumiko Fujita, actress
- October 2: Shigenobu Murofushi, athlete
- October 9: Kiyoko Suizenji, enka singer
- October 19: Shigeo Nakata, wrestler
- October 25: Keaton Yamada, voice actor and narrator
- November 16: Haruko Okamoto, figure skater
- November 28: Hirofumi Nakasone, politician and the son of former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone
- December 1: Sumiko Fuji, actress
- December 15: Kimiko Kasai, jazz singer
- December 23: Noriko Tsukase, voice actress (d. 1989)
Deaths
- January 9: Shigekazu Shimazaki, career officer
- February 26: Sanji Iwabuchi
- March 22: Takeichi Nishi
- March 26: Tadamichi Kuribayashi
- April 1: GÃ
ÂtarÃ
 Ogawa
- May 11: Kiyoshi Ogawa, naval aviator (suicide)
- March 17: Tatsugo Kawaishi, swimmer (b. 1911)
- April 16: Toshiko Tamura, novelist (b. 1884)
- May 16: ShintarÃ
 Hashimoto, admiral (b. 1892)
- May 21: Prince Kan'in Kotohito, Chief of Army General Staff (b. 1865)
- June 3: Fusashige Suzuki, athlete
- June 7: Kitaro Nishida, philosopher (b. 1870)
- June 22: Isamu ChÃ
Â, officer (suicide)
- June 23: Mitsuru Ushijima, general (suicide)
- August 6: Senkichi Awaya, mayor of Hiroshima
- August 15:
- Korechika Anami, war leader (suicide)
- Matome Ugaki, admiral
- August 16: TakijirÃ
 Ã
Ânishi, admiral (suicide)
- August 17: Shimaki Kensaku, author (b. 1903)
- August 19: Hasuda Zenmei, scholar of kokugaku (suicide)
- August 20: Masahiko Amakasu, officer (suicide)
- August 24:
- Midori Naka, stage actress (b. 1909)
- Shizuichi Tanaka, general (suicide)
- September 9: Yoshitsugu Tatekawa, lieutenant-general
- September 12: Hajime Sugiyama, field marshal (suicide) (b. 1880)
- September 14: Kunihiko Hashida, physician and physiologist (suicide)
- September 20: ChÃ
Âtoku Kyan, Okinawan karate master
- September 26: Kiyoshi Miki, philosopher
- October 15: Mokutaro Kinoshita, author, Dramaturge, poet, art historian and literary critic
- October 18: Yoshiki Hayama, writer (b. 1894)
- October 28: Kesago Nakajima, lieutenant-general
- November 30: Shigeru HonjÃ
Â, general (suicide)
- December 13: Goro Shiba, military leader during the Boxer Rebellion (b. 1860)
- December 16: Fumimaro Konoe, former prime minister (suicide) (b. 1891)
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