Events in the year 1959 in Japan.
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Incumbents
Births
- January 3 – Dankan, actor and director
- January 16 – Kimiko Ikegami, actress
- January 17 – Momoe Yamaguchi, actress
- February 8 – Amy Yamada, writer
- March 23 – Kazue Ikura, actress, voice actress and narrator
- May 19 – Michiru Shimada, screenwriter (d. 2017)
- October 13 – Denny Tamaki, governor of Okinawa Prefecture
- December 6 – Satoru Iwata, video game designer, businessman (d. 2015)
Deaths
- March 7 – Ichirō Hatoyama, politician and 35th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1883)
- June 20 – Hitoshi Ashida, politician and 35th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1887)