2001 in Japan

none 2001 The following is a list of events that occurred in the year 2001 in Japan. It corresponds to the year Heisei 13 (平成13年 or 平成十三年) in the Japanese calendar. Incumbents Emperor: AkihitoAkihito Biography, Reign, & Facts https://www.britannica.com/biography/Akihito Encyclopedia Britannica 27 March 2019 en Prime Minister: Yoshiro Mori (L–Ishikawa) until April 26, Junichiro Koizumi (L–Kanagawa) Chief Cabinet Secretary: Yasuo Fukuda (L–Gunma) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Shigeru Yamaguchi Speaker of the House of Representatives: Tamisuke Watanuki (L–Toyama) President of the House of Councillors: Yutaka Inoue (L–Chiba), reelected August 7 Diet sessions: 151st (regular, January 31 to June 29), 152nd (extraordinary, August 7 to August 10), 153rd (extraordinary, September 27 to December 7) Governors Aichi Prefecture: Masaaki Kanda Akita Prefecture: Sukeshiro Terata Aomori Prefecture: Morio Kimura Chiba Prefecture: Takeshi Numata (until 4 April); Akiko Dōmoto (starting 4 April) Ehime Prefecture: Moriyuki Kato Fukui Prefecture: Yukio Kurita Fukuoka Prefecture: Wataru Asō Fukushima Prefecture: Eisaku Satō Gifu Prefecture: Taku Kajiwara Gunma Prefecture: Hiroyuki Kodera Hiroshima Prefecture: Yūzan Fujita Hokkaido: Tatsuya Hori Hyogo Prefecture: Toshitami Kaihara (until 31 July); Toshizō Ido (starting 1 August) Ibaraki Prefecture: Masaru Hashimoto Ishikawa Prefecture: Masanori Tanimoto Iwate Prefecture: Hiroya Masuda Kagawa Prefecture: Takeki Manabe Kagoshima Prefecture: Tatsurō Suga Kanagawa Prefecture: Hiroshi Okazaki Kochi Prefecture: Daijiro Hashimoto Kumamoto Prefecture: Yoshiko Shiotani Kyoto Prefecture: Teiichi Aramaki Mie Prefecture: Masayasu Kitagawa Miyagi Prefecture: Shirō Asano Miyazaki Prefecture: Suketaka Matsukata Nagano Prefecture: Yasuo Tanaka Nagasaki Prefecture: Genjirō Kaneko Nara Prefecture: Yoshiya Kakimoto Niigata Prefecture: Ikuo Hirayama Oita Prefecture: Morihiko Hiramatsu Okayama Prefecture: Masahiro Ishii Okinawa Prefecture: Keiichi Inamine Osaka Prefecture: Fusae Ōta Saga Prefecture: Isamu Imoto Saitama Prefecture: Yoshihiko Tsuchiya Shiga Prefecture: Yoshitsugu Kunimatsu Shiname Prefecture: Nobuyoshi Sumita Shizuoka Prefecture: Yoshinobu Ishikawa Tochigi Prefecture: Akio Fukuda Tokushima Prefecture: Toshio Endo Tokyo: Shintarō Ishihara Tottori Prefecture: Yoshihiro Katayama Toyama Prefecture: Yutaka Nakaoki Wakayama Prefecture: Yoshiki Kimura Yamagata Prefecture: Kazuo Takahashi Yamaguchi Prefecture: Sekinari Nii Yamanashi Prefecture: Ken Amano Events thumb|Junichiro Koizumi became prime minister in April. January January 6: Nurse Daisuke Mori arrested for an attempted murder of 11-year-old girl.http://medicalserilkillers.kaiserpapers.info/mori.html Killer nurse Medical Serial Killers 2008-03-21March 2019 InternetArchiveBot yes January 26: A JR yamanote line train coming into Shin-Ōkubo Station hits and kills a man who fell off the platform and two others who jumped onto the rails to rescue him. January 31: 2001 Japan Airlines mid-air incident February February 9: The fishing boat Ehime Maru is struck by a U.S. submarine and sunk. March March 21: The Nintendo Game Boy Advance handheld is released. March 24: 2001 Geiyo earthquake, kill two people with injure 288 in Hiroshima and Ehime. August 2010 March 27: Hikaru Saeki became the first female star officer (admiral and general) in the history of the Japan Self-Defense Forces (JSDF).28 March 2001 ja:自衛隊初の女性将官が誕生、佐伯光海将補 夫も元海将 ja 読売新聞 東京朝刊 A. 39 March 31: Universal Studios Japan opens in Osaka.Japanese home for Snoopy and gang https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/digitised/article/today20010330-1.2.10.10?qt=universal,%20studios,%20japan&q=universal%20studios%20japan Today (Singaporean newspaper) March 30, 2001 April April 1: Sakura Bank and Sumitomo Bank merge to form Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation. April 6: Japanese government institutes new overtime regulations. April 24: Junichiro Koizumi defeats Ryutaro Hashimoto in LDP polls to become prime minister. April 26: Koizumi announces his first cabinet, with Makiko Tanaka as foreign minister and Heizo Takenaka as Minister of State for the Economy. June June 8: Ikeda school massacre takes place. July July 13: Osaka is removed on the first ballot for the site of the 2008 Summer Olympics. July 20: Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away premieres; it becomes the first anime film to win an Academy Award. July 29: 2001 Japanese House of Councillors election. August August 13: Koizumi visits Yasukuni Shrine, angering China and South Korea. August 16–26: The sixth World Games are held in Akita. August 29: The first H-IIA rocket is launched from Tanegashima Space Center. September September 1: Myojo 56 building fire kills 44. September 4: Tokyo DisneySea opens to the public as part of the Tokyo Disney Resort in Urayasu, Chiba, Japan.Tokyo DisneySea Project http://www.olc.co.jp/en/company/history/history05.html 2022-11-20 OLC Group September 11: The first case of Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in Japan is discovered. September 12: Following the September 11 attacks in the United States, the Nikkei 225 index drops below 10,000 for the first time since 1984. September 14: The Nintendo GameCube is released. October October 1: Ghibli Museum opens. October 18: The East Japan Railway Company introduces the Suica smart card service to the Tokyo area. December December 1: Princess Aiko, potential heiress to the Imperial throne, is born. December 9: Television performer Masashi Tashiro is arrested for peeping in a male bath-house. December 21: TIME removes Masashi Tashiro from its "Person of the Year" poll after 2channel users vote the "bad boy" performer into first place. The Nobel Prize Ryoji Noyori: 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry winner. Births January 2: Wakaba Higuchi, figure skater February 2: Maria Makino, pop singer February 4: Fūka Haruna, actress May 24: Noa Tsurushima, actress May 28: Rikako Sasaki, singer June 4: Takefusa Kubo, footballer June 18: Nako Yabuki, singer June 19: Natsumi Sakai, swimmer June 25: Yurina Hirate, idol singer August 4: Seishiro Kato, actor August 31: Nana Mori, actress September 8: Mio Tsuneyasu, footballer October 1: Pankun, chimpanzee October 6: Hitomi Honda, singer November 3: Rōki Sasaki, professional baseball pitcher (Chiba Marines)August 2022 December 1: Princess Aiko, the daughter and only child of Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako Deaths March 9: Mitsuo Kagawa, archaeologist (b. 1923) April 7: Yasuhira Kiyohara, lieutenant of the Imperial army (b. 1914) May 17: Hyōichi Kōno, adventurer (b. 1958) July 24: Hiroshi Tsuburaya, actor (b. 1964) July 28: Futaro Yamada, author (b. 1922) August 25: Ginzō Matsuo, voice actor (b. 1951) September 9: Shinji Sōmai, film director (b. 1948) September 28: Isao Inokuma, judoka (b. 1938) September 30: Takasi Tokioka, zoologist (b. 1913) October 11: Fuku Akino, painter (b. 1908)https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2001/10/12/national/obituary-fuku-akino/ Obituary: Fuku Akino 2001-10-12 The Japan Times Online 2019-12-11 en-US 0447-5763 November 7: Sachiko Hidari, film actress (b. 1930) November 15: Satoru Kobayashi, film director (b. 1930) November 30: Kikutaro Baba, malacologist (b. 1905) December 20: Kōji Nanbara, actor (b. 1927) December 22: Shizue Kato, politician and activist (b. 1897) December 29: Takashi Asahina, conductor (b. 1908) See also 2001 in Japanese television List of Japanese films of 2001 References 2001 in Category:Years of the 21st century in Japan Japan Japan Category:2000s in Japan