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{{Year in
| year = 1959
| region = Japan
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| image = Flag of Japan (1870–1999).svg
| image_size = 80px
| see_also =
* [[1959|Other events of 1959]]
* [[History of Japan]]
* [[Timeline of Japanese history|Timeline]]
* [[List of years in Japan|Years]]
}}
Events in the year '''1959 in [[Japan]]'''.
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== Incumbents ==
*[[Emperor of Japan|Emperor]]: [[Hirohito]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Hirohito {{!}} Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hirohito |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=27 March 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[Prime minister of Japan|Prime minister]]: [[Nobusuke Kishi]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Helms |first1=Ludger |title=Poor Leadership and Bad Governance: Reassessing Presidents and Prime Ministers in North America, Europe and Japan |date=2012 |publisher=Edward Elgar Publishing |isbn=978-0-85793-273-0 |page=178 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=20P_fLri4uUC&pg=PA178 |language=en}}</ref>
===Governors===
*[[List of governors of Aichi Prefecture|Aichi Prefecture]]: [[Mikine Kuwahara]]
*Akita Prefecture: [[Yūjirō Obata]]
*Aomori Prefecture: [[Iwao Yamazaki]]
*Chiba Prefecture: [[Hitoshi Shibata]]
*Ehime Prefecture: [[Sadatake Hisamatsu]]
*Fukui Prefecture: [[Seiichi Hane]] (until 22 April); [[Eizō Kita]] (starting 23 April)
*Fukuoka Prefecture: [[Taichi Uzaki]]
*Fukushima Prefecture: [[Zenichiro Satō]]
*Gifu Prefecture: [[Yukiyasu Matsuno]]
*Gunma Prefecture: [[Toshizo Takekoshi]]
*[[Governors of Hiroshima Prefecture|Hiroshima Prefecture]]: [[Hiroo Ōhara]]
*[[Governor of Hokkaido|Hokkaido]]: [[Toshifumi Tanaka]] (until 22 April); [[Kingo Machimura]] (starting 23 April)
*Hyogo Prefecture: [[Masaru Sakamoto]]
*[[List of governors of Ibaraki Prefecture|Ibaraki Prefecture]]: [[Yoji Tomosue]] (until 29 March); [[Nirō Iwakami]] (starting 23 April)
*[[List of governors of Ishikawa Prefecture|Ishikawa Prefecture]]: [[Jūjitsu Taya]]
*Iwate Prefecture: [[Senichi Abe]]
*Kagawa Prefecture: [[Masanori Kaneko]]
*Kagoshima Prefecture: [[Katsushi Terazono]]
*[[List of governors of Kanagawa Prefecture|Kanagawa Prefecture]]: [[Iwataro Uchiyama]]
*Kochi Prefecture: [[Masumi Mizobuchi]]
*[[List of governors of Kumamoto Prefecture|Kumamoto Prefecture]]: [[Saburō Sakurai]] (until 10 February); [[Kōsaku Teramoto]] (starting 11 February)
*[[List of governors of Kyoto Prefecture|Kyoto Prefecture]]: [[Torazō Ninagawa]]
*Mie Prefecture: [[Satoru Tanaka]]
*[[List of governors of Miyagi Prefecture|Miyagi Prefecture]]: [[Yasushi Onuma]] (until 12 January); [[Yoshio Miura]] (starting 4 March)
*Miyazaki Prefecture: [[Jingo Futami]] (until 22 April); [[Hiroshi Kuroki]] (starting 23 April)
*[[List of governors of Nagano Prefecture|Nagano Prefecture]]: [[Torao Hayashi]] (until 22 April); [[Gon'ichirō Nishizawa]] (starting 26 April)
*Nagasaki Prefecture: [[Katsuya Sato]]
*Nara Prefecture: [[Ryozo Okuda]]
*[[List of governors of Niigata Prefecture|Niigata Prefecture]]: [[Kazuo Kitamura]]
*Oita Prefecture: [[Kaoru Kinoshita]]
*[[List of governors of Okayama Prefecture|Okayama Prefecture]]: [[Yukiharu Miki]]
*[[List of governors of Osaka|Osaka Prefecture]]: [[Bunzō Akama]] (until 22 April); [[Gisen Satō]] (starting 23 April)
*[[List of governors of Saga Prefecture|Saga Prefecture]]: [[Naotsugu Nabeshima]] (until 16 April); [[Sunao Ikeda]] (starting 23 April)
*[[List of governors of Saitama Prefecture|Saitama Prefecture]]: [[Hiroshi Kurihara]]
*[[List of governors of Shiga Prefecture|Shiga Prefecture]]: [[Kyujiro Taniguchi]]
*Shiname Prefecture: [[Yasuo Tsunematsu]] (until 29 April); [[Choemon Tanabe]] (starting 30 April)
*Shizuoka Prefecture: [[Toshio Saitō]]
*Tochigi Prefecture: [[Kiichi Ogawa]] (until 4 February); [[Nobuo Yokokawa]] (starting 5 February)
*Tokushima Prefecture: [[Kikutaro Hara]]
*[[Governor of Tokyo|Tokyo]]: [[Seiichirō Yasui]] (until 18 April); [[Ryōtarō Azuma]] (starting 22 April)
*Tottori Prefecture: [[Jirō Ishiba]]
*Toyama Prefecture: [[Minoru Yoshida]]
*Wakayama Prefecture: [[Shinji Ono]]
*Yamagata Prefecture: [[Tōkichi Abiko]]
*Yamaguchi Prefecture: [[Taro Ozawa]]
*Yamanashi Prefecture: [[Hisashi Amano]]
==Events==
*April 1 – Kyoto Ceramic (now [[Kyocera]]) has founded.{{page needed|date=May 2020}}
*April 10 – The Crown Prince [[Akihito]], the future [[Emperor of Japan]], weds [[Empress Michiko|Michiko Shōda]], the first commoner to marry into the [[Japanese Imperial Family]].
*June 2 – [[Mori Building Company|Mori Building]] was founded.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}
*June 30 – Twenty-one students are killed and more than a hundred injured when an American North American [[F-100 Super Sabre]] jet crashes into Miamori Elementary School on the island of [[Okinawa]]. The pilot ejected before the plane struck the school.<ref>"21 Die as Jet Hits School On Okinawa", ''Oakland Tribune'', June 30, 1959, p1</ref>
*July 22 – A [[Kumamoto University]] medical research group studying [[Minamata disease]] concludes that it is caused by [[mercury (element)|mercury]].
*September 26 – According to [[Japanese government]] official confirmed report, [[Typhoon Vera]] with [[wikt:tidal wave|tidal wave]] hit around [[Ise Bay]], total 5,098 person were lives, 38,921 person were hurt.{{page needed|date=January 2020}}
==Births==
*January 3
*January 16 – [[Kimiko Ikegami]], actress
*December 6 - [[Satoru Iwata]], video game designer, businessman▼
*January 17 – [[Momoe Yamaguchi]], actress
*February 8 – [[Amy Yamada]], writer
==Deaths==▼
*February 20 – [[Tomomi Inada]], politician
*March 23 – [[Kazue Ikura]], actress, voice actress and narrator
*May 19 – [[Michiru Shimada]], screenwriter (d. [[2017 in Japan|2017]])
*May 23 – [[Ryuta Kawashima]], neuroscientist
*June 17 – [[Kazuki Yao]], voice actor and actor
*July 17 – [[Kiyotaka Sugiyama]], singer-songwriter
*August 11 – [[Yoshiaki Murakami]], investor
*August 17 – [[Chika Sakamoto]], voice actress
*September 8 – [[Saeko Shimazu]], voice actress
*October 13 – [[Denny Tamaki]], governor of Okinawa Prefecture
*October 21 – [[Ken Watanabe]], actor
*November 21 – [[Naoko Watanabe (voice actress)|Naoko Watanabe]], voice actress
*November 24 – [[Akio Ōtsuka]], actor and voice actress
*December 5 – [[Yoshitomo Nara]], artist
▲*December 6
▲==Deaths==
*March 7 – [[Ichirō Hatoyama]], politician and 35th Prime Minister of Japan (b. [[1883 in Japan|1883]])
*April 30 – [[Kafū Nagai]], author, playwright, essayist, and diarist (b. [[1879 in Japan|1879]])
*June 20 – [[Hitoshi Ashida]], politician and 35th Prime Minister of Japan (b. [[1887 in Japan|1887]])
*August 9 – [[Noboru Ishizaki]], admiral (b. [[1893 in Japan|1893]])
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