2001 in Japan

2001 in Japan

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2001 was the 13th year of Heisei in Japan.

Incumbents

* Emperor: Akihito
* Prime Minister: Yoshiro Mori, Junichiro Koizumi
* Chief Cabinet Secretary: Yasuo Fukuda
* Governor of Tokyo: Shintaro Ishihara

Events

*January 6: Nurse Daisuke Mori was arrested for an attempted murder of 11-year-old girl. [cite web|url=http://medicalserialkillers.kaiserpapers.info/mori.html|title=Killer nurse|publisher=Medical Serial Killers|accessdate=2008-03-21]
*January 31: 2001 Japan Airlines mid-air incident
*February 9: The fishing boat "Ehime Maru" is struck by a U.S. submarine and sunk.
*March 31: Universal Studios Japan opens.
*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 8: Osaka school massacre takes place.
*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: Japan upper house election, 2001.
*August 13: Koizumi visits Yasukuni Shrine.
*September 1: Myojo 56 building fire kills 44.
*September 4: Tokyo DisneySea opens.
*September 12: In the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in the United States, the Nikkei 225 index drops below 10,000 for the first time since 1984.
*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.

Births

*December 1: Princess Aiko

Deaths

*July 28: Futaro Yamada, author
*December 22: Shizue Kato, politician and activist

References


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