Events in the year 1959 in Japan. It corresponds to ShÃ
Âwa 34 (æÂÂÃ¥ÂÂ34å¹´) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
Governors
Events
Births
Many notable Japanese individuals from Young Japanese Baby Boom/Danso Generation were born in 1959, such as Kimiko Ikegami, Momoe Yamaguchi, Amy Yamada, Yasuharu Konishi, former Japanese Defense Minister Tomomi Inada, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Takaaki Kajita, Kazue Ikura, Satsuki Katayama, Michiru Shimada, Ryuta Kawashima, Takeshi Kobayashi, Kazuki Yao, Nagisa Katahira, Kiyotaka Sugiyama, Koichi Tanaka, Keita Amemiya, Tetsuya Nakashima, Saeko Shimazu, Denny Tamaki, Ken Watanabe, Misako Tanaka, Akio Ã
Âtsuka, Miki Matsubara, Yoshitomo Nara, and Nintendo president and CEO Satoru Iwata.
JanuaryâÂÂMarch
- January 3 – Dankan, actor and director
- January 5 – Kyoichi Katayama, writer
- January 16 – Kimiko Ikegami, American-born Japanese actress
- January 17 – Momoe Yamaguchi, actress
- February 2 – Amy Yamada, writer
- February 3 – Yasuharu Konishi, musician, composer, and DJ
- February 12 – Nana Okada, actress and idol musician
- February 20 – Tomomi Inada, politician and former Minister of Defense
- March 9 – Takaaki Kajita, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
- March 23 – Kazue Ikura, actress, voice actress, and narrator
AprilâÂÂJune
- April 1 – Nobuo Kishi, politician, former Minister of Defense, and the brother of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
- April 7 – Nobuyuki Azuma, fencer
- April 8 – Yoshihito Miyazaki, retired international table tennis player
- April 22 – Fumiko Furuhashi, retired professional tennis player
- April 23 – Akihiro Iwashima, former volleyball player
- May 9 – Satsuki Katayama, politician and Minister of Finance
- May 19 – Michiru Shimada, screenwriter (d. 2017)
- May 23 – Ryuta Kawashima, neuroscientist
- June 7 – Takeshi Kobayashi, keyboardist, lyricist, composer, arranger, and record producer
- June 17 – Kazuki Yao, actor and voice actor
JulyâÂÂSeptember
- July 12 – Nagisa Katahira, actress and singer
- July 17 – Kiyotaka Sugiyama, singer-songwriter
- August 3 – Koichi Tanaka, electrical engineer
- August 11 – Yoshiaki Murakami, investor
- August 17 – Chika Sakamoto, voice actress
- August 24 – Keita Amemiya, film director and screenwriter
- September 2 – Tetsuya Nakashima, film director and screenwriter
- September 8 – Saeko Shimazu, actress, voice actress, and narrator
OctoberâÂÂDecember
- October 13 – Denny Tamaki, governor of Okinawa Prefecture
- October 21 – Ken Watanabe, actor
- November 11 – Misako Tanaka, actress
- November 21 – Naoko Watanabe, voice actress
- November 24 – Akio Ã
Âtsuka, actor and voice actor
- November 28 – Miki Matsubara, musician and television presenter (d. 2004)
- December 5 – Yoshitomo Nara, artist
- December 6 – Satoru Iwata, video game designer and developer, businessman, and president and CEO of Nintendo (d. 2015)
Deaths
References