Events in the year 1957 in Japan. It corresponds to ShÃ
Âwa 32 (æÂÂÃ¥ÂÂ32å¹´) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
Governors
Events
- April 1 – Yoyogi Seminar Cram School was founded.
- April 12 - According to Japan Coast Guard official confirmed report, a sightseeing boat Kitagawa Maru No 5 capsize by overcrowded off Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, 113 persons perished, with 49 persons wounded.
- May 8 - Coca-Cola, full-scale sale start in Japan.
- June 20 â Toru Takemitsu's Requiem for Strings is first performed, by the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra.
- July 25âÂÂ28 - According to Japanese government official confirmed report, heavy massive torrential rain and flood swept hit around Isahaya, Kyushu Island. 992 persons lost their lives in mudslides and flooding.
- October 27 – According to Fire and Disaster Management Agency has official report, An apartment house caught fire by arsonist relative insurance fraud in Akishima, Tokyo, kills eight persons, injures six persons, Japan National Police Agency official report, a suspicion was arrested on March 8, 1958.
- November 15 - A first section Nagoya to Sakae of Nagoya Municipal Subway Higashiyama Line operation started in Aichi Prefecture.
Births
Many notable Japanese individuals from Young Japanese Baby Boom/Danso Generation were born in 1957, such as two former Japanese LDP Prime Ministers Shigeru Ishiba and Fumio Kishida, Issei Noro, Wakashimazu Mutsuo, GakuryÃ
« Ishii, Yoko Akino, Fumi Saimon, KÃ
Âsuke Morita, Hiroko Kuniya, Satoshi Takebe, Mitsuko Horie, Shinobu Kitayama, Kazuko Fujita, Amii Ozaki, , Nobuyoshi Kuwano, Nobuteru Ishihara, , Kenji Kawai, Kow Otani, Rino Katase, Koji Suzuki, Shinji Morisue, Yasuhiro Yamashita, Midori Kinouchi, Hiroshi Ono, Kazuyo Matsui, Kazunori Shinozuka, Shinobu Ã
Âtake, Kazuya Kamiya, Shigeru Ban, Masahiro Hara, SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son, Nobumitsu Yuhara, ShirÃ
 Sagisu, Keiko Masuda, Keiko Toda, Tsuyoshi Ujiki, , Tomoko Hoshino, Rumiko Takahashi, Gen Nakatani, Atsushi Ã
Ânita, Jackie Sato, Yukihiko Imasaki, Akinobu Okada, Yumi Maruyama, Yutaka Hagawa, GorÃ
 Matsui, ChÃ
Â, Masako Natsume, JÃ
«rÃ
Âta Kosugi, and Hitomi Tohyama
JanuaryâÂÂMarch
- January 1 – Issei Noro, guitarist, songwriter, producer, and composer
- January 12 – Wakashimazu Mutsuo, former sumo wrestler
- January 15 – Gakuryu Ishii, director and writer
- January 18 – YÃ
Âko Akino, actress
- January 19 – Kimie Hatano, politician
- Fumi Saimon, comic artist
- Kimie Hatano, politician
- January 23 – KÃ
Âsuke Morita, experimental nuclear physicist
- January 25 – Michiharu Kusunoki, manga artist
- February 3 – Hiroko Kuniya, journalist and presenter
- February 4 – Shigeru Ishiba, former Prime Minister of Japan
- February 12 – Satoshi Takebe, musician, keyboardist, arranger, music director, and producer
- February 16 – Yuji Fujimoto, politician
- February 28 – Masayoshi Hamada, politician
- March 3 – Yoshinobu Murase, biathlete
- March 6 – Yoshiyuki Matsuoka, retired judo practitioner
- March 8 – Mitsuko Horie, actress, voice actress, and musician
- March 9 – Shinobu Kitayama, social psychologist
- March 10 – Yoshitaka Katori, former professional baseball pitcher
- March 13 – Yoshihiko Takahashi, former professional baseball pitcher
- March 18 – Kazuko Fujita, shÃ
Âjo manga artist
- March 19 – Amii Ozaki, musician
- March 23 – Koji Okajima, figure skating coach and former competitive pair skater
- March 25 – , singer and composer
AprilâÂÂJune
- April 2 – Kiyoshi Ejima, politician
- April 4 – Nobuyoshi Kuwano (a.k.a. Kuwa-man), television performer and former member of Rats & Star
- April 19 – Nobuteru Ishihara, politician and the son of and Shintaro Ishihara
- April 22 – , voice actress (d. 2025)
- April 23 – Kenji Kawai, music composer and arranger
- May 1 – Kow Otani, music composer
- May 8 – Rino Katase, actress
- May 13 – Koji Suzuki, writer
- May 20 – Yoshihiko Noda, former Prime Minister of Japan
- May 22 – Shinji Morisue, gymnast
- June 1 – Yasuhiro Yamashita, chairman of Japan Olympic Comnitee and former judo-ka
- June 5 – Shinya Adachi, politician
- June 7 – Yasuko Watanabe, TEPCO worker (d. 1997)
- June 10
- Hidetsugu Aneha, architect
- Midori Kinouchi, retired idol musician, actress, and the wife of Naoto Takenaka
- June 22 – Tsuyoshi Fukui, retired tennis player and former Japan Davis Cup team member
- June 24 – Hiroshi Ono, video game artist (d. 2021)
- June 25 – Kazuyo Matsui, actress, investor, businesswoman, and essayist
JulyâÂÂSeptember
- July 12 – Kazunori Shinozuka, former professional baseball player
- July 13 – Koji Yasumi, former rugby union player
- July 17 – Shinobu Ã
Âtake, actress, musician, woman talent, and television presenter
- July 20 – Kazuya Kamiya, economist
- July 22 – Hitoshi Goto, politician
- July 26 – , actress (d. 2011)
- July 29 – Fumio Kishida, former Prime Minister of Japan
- July 30 – Kenyu Horiuchi, voice actor
- August 3 – Masayoshi Nataniya, politician
- August 5 – Shigeru Ban, architect
- August 8 – Masahiro Hara, engineer
- August 11
- Kazuaki Ichimura, speed skater
- Masayoshi Son, Korean-born Japanese entrepreneur, investor, philanthropist, and a co-founder of SoftBank Group
- August 14 – Nobumitsu Yuhara, professional golfer
- August 29 – ShirÃ
 Sagisu, composer
- September 1
- Harumitsu Hamano, professional golfer
- , businessman
- September 2 – Keiko Masuda, pop musician and actress
- September 4 – Etsuji Arai, politician
- September 8 – Yoshihiko Isozaki, politician
- September 12 – Keiko Toda, actress, voice actress, musician, and narrator
- September 16 – Hideo Higashikokubaru, former governor of Miyazaki Prefecture and comedian
- September 18 – Tsuyoshi Ujiki, actor and entertainer
- September 25 – , tap dancer, choreographer, director, and writer
OctoberâÂÂDecember
- October 3 – Tomoko Hoshino, actress and essayist
- October 4 – Yasuhiko Funago, politician
- October 5 – Junichi Usui, retired long jumper
- October 9 – YÃ
Âsuke Isozaki, politician
- October 10 – Rumiko Takahashi, manga artist
- October 14 – Gen Nakatani, politician
- October 15 – Kimio Sugimoto, former volleyball player
- October 16 – Tsuneyuki Nakajima, golfer
- October 25 – Atsushi Ã
Ânita, politician and former wrestler
- October 30 – Jackie Sato, professional wrestler (d. 1999)
- November 8 – Koji Tomita, diplomat
- November 10 – Yukihiko Imasaki, Chief Justice of Japan
- November 11 – Manabu Matsuda, politician, finance bureaucrat, and university professor
- November 12 – Fumiko Takano, manga artist
- November 25 – Akinobu Okada, former baseball manager and player
- November 30 – Yumi Maruyama, former volleyball player
- December 8 – Yutaka Hagawa, professional golfer
- December 11 – GorÃ
 Matsui, lyricist
- December 15 – ChÃ
Â, voice actor
- December 17 – Masako Natsume, actress (d. 1985)
- December 19 – JÃ
«rÃ
Âta Kosugi, voice actor
- December 25 – Tadashi Maeda, banker
- December 28
- Hisashi Yokoshima, retired racing driver
- Hitomi Tohyama, musician
Unknown date
Deaths
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