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2014 in Japan

Events in the year 2014 in Japan.

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Additional early elections may be caused by resignations, deaths, recalls, no-confidence votes, etc.

Other Events

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    • January 9 – Mitsubishi Materials Yokkaichi plant explosion, kills five persons, with injures 12 in Mie Prefecture.
    • January 25–2, 013 frozen food pesticide contamination incident, in Gunma Prefecture, arrested on suspicion of fraudulent means obstruction of business man of contract employees was mixed the pesticide malathion by Japanese authority.
    • February – 2014 Japan heavy snowfall, according to Fire and Disaster Management Agency in Japan confirmed report, 95 persons fatalities, with 1,770 are injures, most of the victims is the snow removal work during the snow removal of the roof.
    • February 15–2, 014 Motosumiyoshi commuter trains accident, injures 19 people in Tokyu Toyoko Line, Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture.
    • March 5 – 2012–2013 PC remote control incident in Japan, a suspect man of 31-year-old bail for the first time in almost a year from the Tokyo Detention Center of the receiving destination, however, the prosecution claimed the bail revocation on May 19, suspects the Tokyo District Court, a suspect man imprisoned in the Tokyo Detention Center on May 20.
    • March 8 – Abeno Harukas open in Abeno-ku, Osaka, the tallest (exclude freestanding) structure in Japan.
    • March 31 – In court that the International Court of Justice, the world complained as the International Convention for the Regulation of Whaling violation research whaling in the Antarctic Ocean in Japan, research whaling in Japan said, "not for research purposes", and certification treaty violation, ruling order so that it is not carried out in future.
    • April 1 – Consumption tax is up to 8% from 5% since 1997.[citation needed]
    • August 20 – 2014 Hiroshima landslides, according to official confirmed report, 74 people fatalities in Asakita-ku, Hiroshima.
    • August 27 – According to Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare official confirmed report, a first dengue fever patient cases in the country since 1945, or later, 153 people are same symptoms by October, mainly, Tokyo metropolitan area.
    • September 27 – 2014 eruption of Mount Ontake, according to official confirmed report, 63 people fatalities and worst eruption disaster since 1991.
    • November 22 – A magnitude 6.2 earthquake injured 46 people in Hakuba, Nagano Prefecture, according to a Fire and Disaster Management Agency official.
    • December 3 – An asteroid sample return mission Hayabusa2 launched from Tanegashima Space Center, Kagoshima prefecture.[citation needed]

The Nobel Prize

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Arts and entertainment

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For events in anime, see 2014 in anime. For events in manga, see 2014 in manga. For events in music, see 2014 in Japanese music. For events in television, see 2014 in Japanese television. For Japanese films released this year, see List of Japanese films of 2014 and for films that reached number-one at the Japanese box office, see List of 2014 box office number-one films in Japan.

Sports

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For the Japanese participation in the 2014 Winter Olympics, see Japan at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Deaths

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February

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March

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April

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June

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July

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  • July 3
    • Haruichiban, 47, entertainer, cirrhosis.[83]
    • Mazakazu Koayashi, 44, hang-glider, flight collision during competition.[84]
  • July 5 – Masamitsu Iwamoto, 85, politician (House of Councillors), stroke.[85]
  • July 9 – Yuzuru Ninagawa, 89, scholar of French literature, pneumonia.[86]
  • July 10 – On Kawara, 81, conceptual artist.[87]
  • July 14 – Yūsuke Fukada, 82, writer (Naoki Prize), pneumonia.[88]
  • July 18
  • July 20 – Kazuo Ichiriki, 88, sumo executive, Chairman of Yokozuna Deliberation Council (1999–2001).[91]
  • July 25 – Fusao Ōkubo, 92, writer and editor (Gunzo), duodenal papilla cancer.[92]
  • July 27 – Kyozan Joshu Sasaki, 107, Japanese-born American Rinzai Zen teacher.[93]
  • July 31 – Shigefumi Fukatsu, 46, playwright and theater producer, lung cancer.[94]

August

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September

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October

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November

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December

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See also

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References

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