Login
Login

2008 in Japan

{{short description|none}}

{{Year in Japan|2008}}

Events in the year 2008 in Japan.

Incumbents

=Governors=

Events

File:Matsurube Ohashi(bridge).JPG]]

  • January 31 – Nine people are hospitalized after eating gyōza made at the Tianyang Food Plant in China.{{cite news |url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080131a2.html |title=10 sick after eating tainted 'gyoza' from China |date=2008-01-31 |access-date=2008-02-14 |publisher=The Japan Times |first=Reiji |last=Yoshida}}
  • February 11 – Okinawa police arrest United States Marine Tyrone Hadnott and charge him with raping a middle-school girl.{{cite news |title=Okinawa rape case sparks resentment |url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080213a1.html |date=2008-02-13 |access-date=2008-02-13 |first=Kaho |last=Shimizu |publisher=The Japan Times| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080213193116/http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080213a1.html| archive-date= 13 February 2008 | url-status= live}}
  • February 19
  • Kei Nishikori wins an ATP title. At age 18, he is the youngest player to win the title after Lleyton Hewitt won it at age 16 in 1998.{{cite news |url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/st20080219a1.html |title=Nishikori defeats Blake, captures first ATP title |date=2008-02-20 |access-date=2008-02-19 |publisher=The Japan Times}}
  • A Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Atago collides with fishing boat Seitoku Maru at 4:07 am, off the coast of Chiba Prefecture.{{cite news |url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080222a1.html |title=JCG hints destroyer was at fault in collision |date=2008-02-20 |access-date=2008-02-27}}
  • February 22
  • The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force resumes fueling warships from the United States and its allies.{{cite news |url=http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080222a3.html |title=MSDF refueling mission resumed |publisher=The Japan Times |date=2008-02-22 |access-date=2008-02-22}}
  • Kazuyoshi Miura is arrested in Saipan on suspicion of involvement with the murder of his wife in 1981.{{cite news |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/02/26/america/NA-GEN-US-Japanese-Businessmans-Wife.php |title= Arrest warrant says Japanese businessman orchestrated wife's killing in Los Angeles |publisher=International Herald Tribune |access-date=2008-03-13}}
  • February 25 – The Supreme Court upheld life sentence of Daisuke Mori.{{cite web|url=http://www.hdrjapan.com/option,com_myblog/show,Top-court-dismisses-nurses-protest-over-life-sentence-for-murdering-patient.html/Itemid,67/ |title=Top court dismisses nurse's protest over life sentence for murdering patient |publisher=HDR Japan |date=2008-03-12 |access-date=2008-03-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110711154526/http://www.hdrjapan.com/option%2Ccom_myblog/show%2CTop-court-dismisses-nurses-protest-over-life-sentence-for-murdering-patient.html/Itemid%2C67/ |archive-date=2011-07-11 }}
  • June 8 – The Akihabara massacre takes place in Tokyo. A man kills seven in an attack on a crowd using a truck and a dagger.{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2008/jun/10/internationalcrime.japan|title=Japan: Killer of seven gave online warning of Tokyo rampage|work=The Guardian|date=2008-06-10|access-date=2008-06-17 | location=London | first=Justin | last=McCurry| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080613104630/http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jun/10/internationalcrime.japan| archive-date= 13 June 2008 | url-status= live}}
  • June 14 – the 2008 Iwate earthquake strikes northern Honshū, leaving two dead and hundreds injured.[http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/06/13/japan.earthquake/index.html Strong earthquake rattles Japan]. Retrieved June 14, 2008.
  • June 17 – Serial killer Tsutomu Miyazaki is executed by hanging.[https://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUST7560220080617 Japan hangs serial killer of young girls and 2 others]. Retrieved June 17, 2008.
  • July 7 – July 9 – G8 summit hosted by Japan.
  • September 6 – Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda announces his resignation.
  • September 24 – The Diet elects Taro Aso Prime Minister.
  • October – Toyota launches yet another Avensis at the 2008 Paris Motor Show to be built in Britain.
  • October 1 – Arson claims 15 lives in a pre-dawn fire at an adult-video shop in Osaka.{{Cite web|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/09/30/japan.fire.ap/index.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081003201229/http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/09/30/japan.fire.ap/index.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 3, 2008|title=Fire kills 15 in Japanese video shop – CNN.com}}
  • October 10 (U.S. Pacific Daylight Time) – Kazuyoshi Miura commits suicide in Los Angeles while under arrest on suspicion of involvement in the murder of his wife.[http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/t10014680971000.html# NHKニュース　ロス疑惑 三浦元社長が自殺] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012215009/http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/t10014680971000.html |date=2008-10-12 }}. Retrieved October 11, 2008.
  • October 17 – Japan won their tenth nonpermanent seat for 2009 and 2010 sessions on the United Nations Security Council, defeating Iran by 158 votes to 32 in elections in the General Assembly{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/18/world/18nations.html|title=3 Nations Win Security Council Seats|first=Neil|last=MacFarquhar|work=The New York Times |date=October 17, 2008|via=NYTimes.com}}

The Nobel Prize

Deaths

See also

References

{{Reflist}}

{{Japan year nav}}

{{Asia topic|2008 in}}

Category:Years of the 21st century in Japan

Category:2000s in Japan

Category:2008 by country

Category:2008 in Asia