1965 in Japan
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{{Year in Japan|1965}}
Events from the year 1965 in Japan.
Incumbents
- Emperor: Hirohito{{cite web |title=Hirohito {{!}} Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hirohito |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=27 March 2019 |language=en}}
- Prime Minister: Eisaku Satō (Liberal Democratic)
- Chief Cabinet Secretary: Tomisaburo Hashimoto
- Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Kisaburo Yokota
- President of the House of Representatives: Naka Funada until December 20, Kikuchirō Yamaguchi
- President of the House of Councillors: Yūzō Shigemune
=Governors=
- Aichi Prefecture: Mikine Kuwahara
- Akita Prefecture: Yūjirō Obata
- Aomori Prefecture: Shunkichi Takeuchi
- Chiba Prefecture: Taketo Tomonō
- Ehime Prefecture: Sadatake Hisamatsu
- Fukui Prefecture: Eizō Kita
- Fukuoka Prefecture: Taichi Uzaki
- Fukushima Prefecture: Morie Kimura
- Gifu Prefecture: Yukiyasu Matsuno
- Gunma Prefecture: Konroku Kanda
- Hiroshima Prefecture: Iduo Nagano
- Hokkaido: Kingo Machimura
- Hyogo Prefecture: Motohiko Kanai
- Ibaraki Prefecture: Nirō Iwakami
- Ishikawa Prefecture: Yōichi Nakanishi
- Iwate Prefecture: Tadashi Chida
- Kagawa Prefecture: Masanori Kaneko
- Kagoshima Prefecture: Katsushi Terazono
- Kanagawa Prefecture: Iwataro Uchiyama
- Kochi Prefecture: Masumi Mizobuchi
- Kumamoto Prefecture: Kōsaku Teramoto
- Kyoto Prefecture: Torazō Ninagawa
- Mie Prefecture: Satoru Tanaka
- Miyagi Prefecture: Yoshio Miura (until 8 February); Shintaro Takahashi (starting 31 March)
- Miyazaki Prefecture: Hiroshi Kuroki
- Nagano Prefecture: Gon'ichirō Nishizawa
- Nagasaki Prefecture: Katsuya Sato
- Nara Prefecture: Ryozo Okuda
- Niigata Prefecture: Juichiro Tsukada
- Oita Prefecture: Kaoru Kinoshita
- Okayama Prefecture: Takenori Kato
- Osaka Prefecture: Gisen Satō
- Saga Prefecture: Sunao Ikeda
- Saitama Prefecture: Hiroshi Kurihara
- Shiga Prefecture: Kyujiro Taniguchi
- Shiname Prefecture: Choemon Tanabe
- Shizuoka Prefecture: Toshio Saitō
- Tochigi Prefecture: Nobuo Yokokawa
- Tokushima Prefecture: Kikutaro Hara (until 15 September); Yasunobu Takeichi (starting 9 October)
- Tokyo: Ryōtarō Azuma
- Tottori Prefecture: Jirō Ishiba
- Toyama Prefecture: Minoru Yoshida
- Wakayama Prefecture: Shinji Ono
- Yamagata Prefecture: Tōkichi Abiko
- Yamaguchi Prefecture: Masayuki Hashimoto
- Yamanashi Prefecture: Hisashi Amano
Events
- February 14 - An All Nippon Airways Douglas DC-3 aircraft crashes into Mount Nakanoone in Shizuoka Prefecture, killing both occupants of the plane.
- February 22 - A gas explosion at a coal mine in Hokkaido kills 61.
- June 1 - Coal mine explosion in Fukuoka Prefecture kills 237.
- June 22 - Treaty on Basic Relations between Japan and the Republic of Korea signed in Tokyo.
- August 1 - According to an official confirmed report from the Japan Coast Guard, the cruise ship Yasoshima Maru collided with a runaway tugboat and capsized in Osaka Bay, total 20 passenger and crew were lost to lives.{{citation needed|date=October 2019}}
- September 18 - Comet Ikeya–Seki first sighted by Japanese astronomers.
- October 7 - Seven Japanese fishing boat capsized near Agrihan Island by Typhoon Carmen, According to an official confirmed report from the JCG, total 209 crew were fatalities.
- October 15 - Meijō Line begins operations.
- Unknown date – Kyoto Sangyo University was founded.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}
Births
- January 5 - Rei Sakuma, voice actress
- January 14 - Shouhei Kusaka (Born Hiroshi Tokoro), actor of 1989 Metal Hero Series Kidou Keiji Jiban.
- February 18 – Masaki Saito, former professional baseball pitcher
- March 20 - Taeko Kawata, voice actress
- March 21 - Wakana Yamazaki, voice actress
- April 15 - Sōichi Noguchi, astronaut
- April 22 - Arihiro Hase, actor and voice actor (d. 1996)
- May 2 - Aohisa Takayasu, actor of 1992 Super Sentai Series Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger.
- May 8 - Momoko Sakura, Japanese manga artist (Chibi Maruko-chan) (d. 2018)
- May 10 - Kiyoyuki Yanada, voice actor
- May 13 - Hikari Ōta, comedian
- May 23 - Kappei Yamaguchi, voice actor
- May 24 - Shinichiro Watanabe, anime director
- May 31 - Yōko Sōmi, voice actress
- June 6 - Megumi Ogata, voice actress and singer
- June 11 - Yasuko Sawaguchi, actress
- July 3 - Shinya Hashimoto, professional wrestler (d. 2005)
- July 13 - Akina Nakamori, pop singer and actress.
- August 2 - Hisanobu Watanabe, baseball player and coach
- August 18
- Kōji Kikkawa, singer
- Ikue Ōtani, voice actress
- August 28 - Satoshi Tajiri, video game designer, creator of Pokémon
- September 27 - Robert Baldwin, actor
- October 4 - Michiko Neya, voice actress
- October 7 - Kumiko Watanabe, voice actress
- November 20
- Yoshiki Hayashi, rock composer, pianist and drummer (X Japan)
- Takeshi Kusao, voice actor
- November 21 - Yuriko Yamaguchi, voice actress
- November 29 - Yutaka Ozaki, songwriter and rock star (d. 1992)
- November 30 - Fumihito, Crown Prince of Japan
- December 7 - Teruyuki Kagawa, actor
- December 8 - Kotono Mitsuishi, voice actress
- December 26 - Toshihide Wakamatsu, actor of 1991 Super Sentai Series Chojin Sentai Jetman.
Deaths
- March 4 – Hachirō Arita, politician (b. 1884)
- July 19 – Haruo Umezaki, writer (b. 1915)
- July 28 – Rampo Edogawa, author and critic (b. 1894)
- July 30 – Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, writer, novelist (b. 1886)
- August 13 – Hayato Ikeda, Prime Minister (b. 1899)
- December 27 – Morita Fukui, lawyer, prosecutor, politician and first Commissioner of baseball in Japan (b. 1885)
- December 29 – Kosaku Yamada, composer and conductor (b. 1886)