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1960 in Japan

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Events of the year 1960 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 35 (昭和35年) in the Japanese calendar.

1960 was a year of prolonged and intense political struggles in Japan. The massive and often quite violent Miike Coal Mine Strike at the Miike Coal Mine in Kyushu lasted nearly the entire year, and the massive nationwide Anpo Protests against renewal of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty carried over from 1959 and climaxed in June, forcing the resignation of Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and the cancellation of a planned visit to Japan by U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower.{{Cite book|last=Kapur|first=Nick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Re5hDwAAQBAJ|title=Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=2018|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=4–6}}

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File:1960 Protests against the United States-Japan Security Treaty 07.jpg against the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty, masses of protestors flood the streets around Japan's National Diet building, June 18, 1960]]

  • January 15 – The first televised anime, Three Tales, is broadcast on NHK in Japan.
  • January 19 – Prime Minister Kishi and President Eisenhower sign the revised Treaty of Mutual Cooperation and Security Between the United States and Japan at a ceremony in Washington D.C.{{Cite book|last=Kapur|first=Nick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Re5hDwAAQBAJ|title=Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=2018|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=21}}
  • January 19 – Mitsui corporation locks protesting miners out of the Miike Coal Mine in Kyushu, launching the 312-day Miike Coal Mine Strike.{{Cite book|last=Kapur|first=Nick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Re5hDwAAQBAJ|title=Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=2018|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=137}}
  • February 23 – Naruhito, son of Akihito and Michiko is born in Tokyo Imperial Palace.
  • February 23 – As part of the ongoing Miike Struggle, picketing coal miner Kiyoshi Kubo is stabbed to death by a yakuza gangster.{{Cite book|last=Kapur|first=Nick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Re5hDwAAQBAJ|title=Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=2018|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=135}}
  • May 19 – The "May 19th Incident" – Prime Minister Kishi unexpectedly calls for a snap vote on the revised Security Treaty and has police drag opposition Diet Members out of the National Diet to pass the treaty with only members of his own party present.{{Cite book|last=Kapur|first=Nick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Re5hDwAAQBAJ|title=Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=2018|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=22–24}}

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  • June 10 – The "Hagerty Incident" – A car carrying Eisenhower's press secretary James Hagerty and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Douglas MacArthur II is mobbed by protesters outside of Tokyo's Haneda Airport, requiring the occupants to be rescued by a U.S. Marines helicopter.{{Cite book|last=Kapur|first=Nick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Re5hDwAAQBAJ|title=Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=2018|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=27–29}}
  • June 15 – The "June 15 Incident" – As part of the Anpo protests, radical student activists from Zengakuren attempt to storm the National Diet compound, precipitating a battle with police in which female Tokyo University student Michiko Kanba is killed.{{Cite book|last=Kapur|first=Nick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Re5hDwAAQBAJ|title=Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=2018|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=29–31}}
  • June 19 – The new U.S.-Japan Security Treaty is automatically ratified 30 days after passing the Lower House of the Diet.{{Cite book|last=Kapur|first=Nick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Re5hDwAAQBAJ|title=Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=2018|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=34}}
  • July 15 – The Kishi cabinet resigns en masse to take responsibility for the violent Anpo Protests. Kishi is officially succeeded as prime minister by Hayato Ikeda on July 19.
  • July 24 – According to Japan National Police Agency official confirmed report, a charter bus collision with regular route bus, charter bus plunge into cliff in mountain road, Mount Hiei, Otsu, Shiga Prefecture, 28 person were perish, 16 person were hurt.[:ja:比叡山ドライブウェイ#転落事故]　(Japanese language edition)　Retrieved date 15 February 2020.
  • August 10 – lubricant brand Kure Engineering was founded.{{page needed|date=September 2020}}
  • August 25 – September 11 – Japan competes at the Olympics in Rome and win 4 gold, 7 silver and 7 bronze medals.
  • October 12 – The Assassination of Inejirō Asanuma - Japan Socialist Party Chairman Inejirō Asanuma is assassinated by a right-wing ultra-nationalist teenager Otoya Yamaguchi while speaking in a televised political debate in Tokyo.{{Cite book|last=Kapur|first=Nick|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Re5hDwAAQBAJ|title=Japan at the Crossroads: Conflict and Compromise after Anpo|publisher=Harvard University Press|year=2018|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts|pages=252}}
  • December 1 – Striking coal miners at the Miike Coal Mine return to work, ending the 312-day Miike Struggle.

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