Events from the year 1975 in Japan. It corresponds to ShÃ
Âwa 50 (æÂÂÃ¥ÂÂ50å¹´) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
Governors
Events
- January 1 â A hotel bus plunges into Lake Aoki in Nagano Prefecture, killing 24.
- March 10 â Sanyo Shinkansen officially open between Okayama Station to Hakata Station of Fukuoka.
- July 20 â opening of Expo '75 in Okinawa.
- August 6 – According to Japanese government official confirmed report, a heavy massive rain, following debris flow hit in Mount Iwaki in Nakatsugaru District (present day of Hirosaki), Aomori Prefecture, kill 21 persons with injure 31 persons.
- August 17–18 – Typhoon Phyllis, where hit on landslide, debris flow, flood swept hit in Kochi Prefecture, Shikoku Island, killing 77 persons and 209 persons injures, according to official confirmed report.
- November 2âÂÂ8 â 1975 Japan Open Tennis Championships held in Tokyo.
- November 3 â Miss International 1975 held at Expo Portside Theater, Motobu, Okinawa.
- November 26 to December 3 â Japanese National Railways mandatory implementation an eight-day-long illegal "strike for the right to strike".
- December 12 â In Osaka International Airport of Itami, where takeoff and landing of civilian aircraft before 7 o'clock and after 21 o'clock was forbidden, that caused by noise complaints from residents triggered.
- December 31 â 17th Japan Record Awards held in Tokyo.
Films
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- Dersu Uzala, directed by Akira Kurosawa
- Graveyard of Honor, directed by Kinji Fukasaku
- Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, directed by Tomoharu Katsumata
- Kamen Rider Amazon
- Kamen Rider Stronger
- Karayuki-san, the Making of a Prostitute, directed by Shohei Imamura
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- The Return of the Sister Street Fighter, directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
- Terror of Mechagodzilla, directed by IshirÃ
 Honda
- Tokyo Emmanuelle
- Tora-san's Rise and Fall, directed by Yoji Yamada
- Tora-san, the Intellectual, directed by Yoji Yamada
- A Woman Called Sada Abe, directed by Noboru Tanaka
Births
- January 1 â Eiichiro Oda, illustrator and author (One Piece)
- January 6 â Yukana, voice actress and singer
- January 8 â Reiko Chiba, actress
- January 28 â Hiroshi Kamiya, voice actor
- January 30 â Yumi Yoshimura, singer (Puffy Amiyumi)
- February 6 â Tomoko Kawase, singer
- February 16 â Nanase Aikawa, singer
- February 17 â Michiko Kichise, actress
- February 10 â Hiroki Kuroda, baseball pitcher
- February 25 â Chiemi Chiba, voice actress
- April 3
- Koji Uehara, baseball pitcher
- Yoshinobu Takahashi, professional baseball player
- April 14 â Takayoshi Tanimoto, singer
- April 16 â Megumi Ã
Âhara, voice actress
- April 27 â Kazuyoshi Funaki, ski jumper
- May 19 â Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro, manga artist (Seikimatsu Leader den Takeshi!, Toriko)
- May 26 â Tsuruno Takeshi, actor and singer
- June 22 â Yuka Itaya, actress
- July 5 â Ai Sugiyama, tennis player
- July 11 â Riona Hazuki, actress
- July 22 â Kenshin Kawakami, baseball pitcher
- August 1 â Ryoko Yonekura, actress
- August 11 â KishÃ
 Taniyama, voice actor
- August 24 â Hayato Sakurai, martial artist
- August 28 â YÃ
«ko GotÃ
Â, voice actress
- September 6 â Ryoko Tani, judoka
- November 11 â Daisuke Ohata, rugby union player
- November 15 â Hiromi Ominami, long-distance runner
- November 16 â Yuki Uchida, actress
- December 12 â Kuwashima Houko, voice actress
- December 15 â Haruna Ikezawa, actress and voice actress
- December 16 â Masaki Sumitani, television performer
- December 30 â Yoma Komatsu, singer
Deaths
See also
References