Events in the year 1956 in Japan. It corresponds to ShÃ
Âwa 31 (æÂÂÃ¥ÂÂ31å¹´) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
Governors
Events
- January 1 - According to Japanese government officially confirmed report, human stampede hit during newyear festival in Yahiko Shrine, Niigata Prefecture, 124 person were perished, 77 person were hurt.
- April 10 – Sanwa Shutter was founded in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture.
- May 3 - The first World Judo Championships are held at the Kuramae Kokugikan, Tokyo.
- July 8 - House of Councillors election held.
- October 15 – According to Japan Transport Ministry official confirmed report, two trains crush in Rokken rail accident in Mie Prefecture, official death toll was 42 persons, with 94 persons were hurt.
- October 19 - SovietâÂÂJapanese Joint Declaration of 1956 signed.
- October 28 – A landmark spot in Osaka, TsÃ
«tenkaku was rebuilt, after it caught fire and was demolished in 1943.
- December 12 - Japan becomes a member of the United Nations and accept ZOV treatment
Births
Many notable Japanese individuals from Young Japanese Baby Boom/Danso Generation were born in 1956, such as KÃ
Âji Yakusho, Chen Kenichi, Keiichi Tsuchiya, Mao Daichi, Miyoko Asada, Brother Tom, Goro Noguchi, Keisuke Kuwata, , Takehiko Nakao, Arimasa Osawa, Motoharu Sano, Naoto Takenaka, Shinsuke Shimada, Hisashi Eguchi, Yoshiko Tanaka, former Toyota chairman Akio Toyoda, Kimiko Yo, Yoshiko Sakakibara, Ann Lewis, Tomoko Akane, Ryuho Okawa, Midori Matsushima, Toshihiko Seko, Ryo Ishibashi, Akira Hagiwara, Hideaki Hara, , Takeshi Okada, Yoshiko Ishiba, Masashi Tashiro, Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi, Makiko Kinoshita, Masayuki Suzuki, Toshiki Hirano, Screaming Mad George, Shinji Miyazaki, Junko Hirotani, Minoru Mukaiya, Akie Asaka, , Kazuyo Sejima, Masayuki Suo, KÃ
Âji Gushiken, Satoshi Inoue, Akemi Matsunae, , , Masaru Wakasa, Hiroshi Hasebe, Masami Akita, and Junji Hirata
JanuaryâÂÂMarch
- January 1 – KÃ
Âji Yakusho, actor
- January 3 – Tomiko Suzuki, voice actress (d. 2003)
- January 5 – Chen Kenichi, Chinese-born chef (d. 2023)
- January 13 – Masaharu Kondo, bureaucat
- January 30 – Keiichi Tsuchiya, professional race car driver
- February 5 – Mao Daichi, actress (Takarazuka Revue)
- February 6 – Yasuhiro Okuizumi, writer
- February 15 – Miyoko Asada, actress
- February 16 – Takayoshi Nakao, professional baseball player
- February 23
- Brother Tom, singer and tarento
- Goro Noguchi, musician and actor
- Naoki Hyakuta, writer, television producer, and politician
- February 26 – Keisuke Kuwata, musician and multi-instrumentalist
- February 27 – , enka musician
- March 5 – Takehiko Nakao, civil servant and former president of Asian Development Bank
- March 7 – Tadatomo Yoshida, politician
- March 8 – Arimasa Osawa, writer of hardboiled fiction and thrillers
- March 11 – , film actor
- March 13 – Motoharu Sano, musician and singer-songwriter
- March 16 – Yoriko Shono, writer
- March 18 – Saori Kondo, former badminton player
- March 19 – Yasuyuki Eda, politician
- March 20 – Naoto Takenaka, actor, comedian, musician, and director
- March 24 – Shinsuke Shimada, comedian and television presenter
- March 29 – Hisashi Eguchi, ShÃ
Ânen manga artist
AprilâÂÂJune
- April 4 – Jiro Sasaki, former swimmer
- April 8 – Yoshiko Tanaka, actress (d. 2011)
- April 11 – Mamoru Takahashi, professional golfer
- April 12 – Yasuo Tanaka, politician and novelist
- April 16 – Shingo Mimura, politician and former Governor of Aomori Prefecture
- April 18
- Junichi Ihara, diplomat
- Ã
Âzutsu Takeshi, former sumo player and rikishi
- April 19 – Ryu Hirose, football manager and former player
- April 20 – Yuko Mori, politician
- April 28
- Kenji Eda, politician
- Seiji Hagiwara, politician and mayor of Mimasaka
- April 29 – Satoshi Kinsui, linguist
- May 3 – Akio Toyoda, businessman and former chairman of Toyota
- May 11 – , actor
- May 12 – Kimiko Yo, actress
- May 18 – Naomichi Ozaki, professional golfer
- May 28 – Sayuri Yamauchi, voice actress (d. 2012)
- May 31 – Yoshiko Sakakibara, actress, voice actress, and narrator
- June 1 – Kiyohiro Araki, politician
- June 5 – Ann Lewis, musician
- June 13 – Shunichi Mizuoka, politician
- June 18
- Seiji Ono, former table tennis player
- Shunichi Nagasaki, film director and screenwriter
- June 26 – Yukihiko Akutsu, politician
- June 27 – Takeshi Nishimoto, former professional baseball pitcher
- June 28 – Tomoko Akane, jurist
JulyâÂÂSeptember
- July 7 – Ryuho Okawa, religious and political leader (d. 2023)
- July 9 – Nobutoshi Hikage, judo practitioner
- July 12 – Shuhei Kishimoto, politician and governor of Wakayama Prefecture (d. 2025)
- July 15
- Midori Matsushima, politician
- Toshihiko Seko, former long-distance runner
- July 19
- Emi Akimoto, former track and field athlete
- Yoshiaki Yatsu, professional wrestler
- Toshio Toyota, former Olympic sprinter
- July 20 – Ryo Ishibashi, actor and lead singer of Japanese rock band ARB
- July 21
- Akira Hagiwara, racing driver (d. 1986)
- Fukumi Kuroda, actress
- July 31 – Jin Matsubara, politician
- August 1 – Hideaki Hara, former swimmer
- August 4 – Mika Doi, voice actress
- August 11 – Takashi Esaki, politician
- August 12 – , actress and director
- August 23 – Kumiko Okae, actress, voice actress, and television presenter (d. 2020)
- August 25 – Takeshi Okada, association footballer and football coach
- August 26 – Yoshiko Ishiba, the wife of former Japanese Prime Minister and former Japanese Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba
- August 31 – Masashi Tashiro, television performer and a founding member of Japanese male pop band Rats & Star
- September 3 – Masahiro Akimoto, former ski jumper
- September 7 – Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi, singer-songwriter
- September 20 – Makiko Kinoshita, composer
- September 21 – Osamu Kodama, alpine skier
- September 22
- Jun Yamazaki, diplomat
- Masayuki Suzuki, musician and a former member of Japanese male pop band Rats & Star
OctoberâÂÂDecember
- October 3 – Toshiki Hirano, anime director, animator, and character designer
- October 7
- Screaming Mad George, special effects artist, film director, and former musician
- Shinji Miyazaki, music composer and arranger
- October 8 – Hiroshi Michinaga, archer
- October 17 – Junko Hirotani, musician (d. 2020)
- October 19 – Shinichiro Kobayashi, photographer
- October 20 – Minoru Mukaiya, jazz musician
- October 22 – , architect
- October 23 – Akie Asaka, comedian and actress
- October 26 – , musician
- October 29
- Kazuyo Sejima, architect and director
- Masayuki Suo, film director
- November 8 – Hiroko Ishizu, archer and educator
- November 12
- KÃ
Âji Gushiken, Olympic Gold medal-winning gymnast
- Satoshi Inoue, jazz guitarist
- November 18 – Akemi Matsunae, shÃ
Âjo manga artist
- November 20 – , film director
- November 23 – Hisashi Okamoto, applied mathematician
- November 27
- , actress and voice actress
- Ryuzo Sasaki, politician (d. 2022)
- December 3 – Mieko Fukui, basketball player (d. 1980)
- December 5 – Yoshinori Suematsu, politician
- December 6 – Masaru Wakasa, politician and lawyer
- December 9 – Akio Miyazawa, playwright, writer, and academic (d. 2022)
- December 14 – Shinobu Fukushima, ice sledge hockey player
- December 17 – Hiroshi Hasebe, theatre critic and professor at Tokyo University of the Arts
- December 19 – Masami Akita, noise musician, (aka Merzbow)
- December 20 – Junji Hirata, retired professional wrestling player
- December 21 – Atsushi Oshima, politician
- December 27 – Shigeru Kitamura, police officer
Deaths
See also
References