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==Events==
*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 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]].
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