Events in the year 1977 in Japan. It corresponds to ShÃ
Âwa 52 (æÂÂÃ¥ÂÂ52å¹´) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
- Emperor: Hirohito
- Prime minister: Takeo Fukuda (Liberal Democratic)
- Chief Cabinet Secretary: Sunao Sonoda until November 28, Shintaro Abe
- Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Ekizo Fujibayashi until August 25, Masao Okahara from August 26
- President of the House of Representatives: Shigeru Hori
- President of the House of Councillors: KenzÃ
 KÃ
Âno until July 3, Ken Yasui from July 28
- Diet sessions: 80th (regular session opened on December 30, 1976, to June 9), 81st (extraordinary, July 27 to August 3), 82nd (extraordinary, September 29 to November 25), 83rd (extraordinary, December 7 to December 10), 84th (regular, December 19 to June 16, 1978)
Governors
Events
Births
- January 3 - Mayumi Iizuka, voice actress
- January 22 - Hidetoshi Nakata, footballer
- January 30 – Takahiro Arai, former professional baseball player
- February 10 – Morihiro Hashimoto, darts player (d. 2017)
- March 15 - Norifumi Yamamoto, mixed martial artist
- April 27 - Dai Fujikura, composer
- April 29 - Daisuke Amaya, indie game developer
- May 8 - Chiaki Takahashi, voice actress
- May 26 - Misaki Ito, actress
- June 22 - RyÃ
Âko Ono, voice actress
- June 25 - Naoya Tsukahara, gymnast
- June 26 - Tite Kubo, manga artist, creator of BLEACH
- August 13 - Miho Konishi, actress
- August 22 - Miho Kanno, actress and singer
- August 23 - Kenta Miyake, voice actor
- August 25 - Masumi Asano, voice actress
- August 30 - Sayori Ishizuka, voice actress
- September 6 - Kiyoshi Hikawa, enka singer
- September 15 - Angela Aki, singer-songwriter
- September 20 - Namie Amuro, singer
- September 23 - Nozomi Momoi, Japanese AV idol, and murder victim (d. 2002)
- September 25 - Atsushi Aoki, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 2019)
- October 1 – Christel Takigawa, television presenter
- December 6 - Miwa Yasuda, voice actress
Deaths
See also
References