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** [[Kagoshima District Court]] has rejected an attempt by local residents to halt the restart of two nuclear reactors at [[Sendai Nuclear Power Plant]] in [[Satsumasendai, Kagoshima|Satsumasendai]], [[Kagoshima Prefecture]], which restart was approved by Japanese Nuclear Regulation Authority back in September 2014.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2015-04-22|url=http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32408382|title=Japan court rejects attempt to block Sendai reactor restart|newspaper=BBC News|publisher=BBC|accessdate=2015-04-23}}</ref> |
** [[Kagoshima District Court]] has rejected an attempt by local residents to halt the restart of two nuclear reactors at [[Sendai Nuclear Power Plant]] in [[Satsumasendai, Kagoshima|Satsumasendai]], [[Kagoshima Prefecture]], which restart was approved by Japanese Nuclear Regulation Authority back in September 2014.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2015-04-22|url=http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32408382|title=Japan court rejects attempt to block Sendai reactor restart|newspaper=BBC News|publisher=BBC|accessdate=2015-04-23}}</ref> |
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** A [[drone]] which has trace levels of [[radioactive]] [[cesium]] is discovered on the roof of the [[Prime Minister's Official Residence (Japan)|Prime Minister's Official Residence]], while the Prime Minister has been in Jakarta to attend an [[Bandung Conference|60th Anniversary Conference Summit of Afro-Asia Conference]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=2015-04-22|url=http://www.wsj.com/articles/drone-found-at-japan-prime-ministers-office-1429694098|title=Drone Found at Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Office|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|publisher=Dow Jones & Company, Inc.|accessdate=2015-04-23}}</ref> |
** A [[Radio-controlled aircraft|drone]] which has trace levels of [[radioactive]] [[cesium]] is discovered on the roof of the [[Prime Minister's Official Residence (Japan)|Prime Minister's Official Residence]], while the Prime Minister has been in Jakarta to attend an [[Bandung Conference|60th Anniversary Conference Summit of Afro-Asia Conference]].<ref>{{Cite news|date=2015-04-22|url=http://www.wsj.com/articles/drone-found-at-japan-prime-ministers-office-1429694098|title=Drone Found at Japan Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Office|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|publisher=Dow Jones & Company, Inc.|accessdate=2015-04-23}}</ref> A 40-year old man has been arrested on April 24, as he turned himself in to police in Fukui prefecture, claiming that he landed the drone in protest against the Japanese government's nuclear energy policy.<ref>{{Cite news|date=2015-04-25|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/man-arrested-for-landing-radioactive-drone-on-japanese-prime-ministers-roof-10203517.html|title=Man arrested for landing 'radioactive' drone on Japanese Prime Minister's roof|newspaper=independend.co.uk|publisher=The Independent|publisher|accessdate=2015-04-25}}</ref> |
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==Culture== |
==Culture== |
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The following lists events that happened during 2015 in Japan.
Incumbents
- Emperor: Akihito
- Prime Minister: Shinzō Abe (L–Yamaguchi)
- Chief Cabinet Secretary: Yoshihide Suga (L–Kanagawa)
- Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Itsurō Terada
- President of the House of Representatives: Nobutaka Machimura
- President of the House of Councillors: Masaaki Yamazaki
- Diet sessions: 189th (regular, January 26 to June 24)
Events
January
- January 8 - The United States National Highway Traffic Safety Administration fines Honda a record 70 million dollars for grossly under-reporting fatal accidents and injuries to the government.[1]
- January 14 - The cabinet of Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe approves a record defence budget with plans to buy surveillance aircraft and Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II fighter jets to improve the security of uninhabited islands in the East China Sea claimed by both Japan and China.[2]
- January 15 - Australia - Japan Free Trade Agreement enters into force.[3]
- January 18
- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe meets the King of Jordan Abdullah II, and commits to 14.7 billion yen of assistance consisting of 12 billion in yen loans and 2.7 billion in contributions to international organizations providing medical assistance and supplies to refugee camps.[4]
- The Democratic Party of Japan elects Katsuya Okada as the party's leader.[5]
- January 20 - ISIL threatens to kill two Japanese citizens unless it receives a ransom of $200 million.[6]
- January 24 - Japanese government states that it is seeking to verify a video that claims the killing of Japanese hostage Haruna Yukawa by Islamic State militants.[7]
- January 28 - Skymark Airlines files for bankruptcy with the Tokyo District Court, having liabilities of 71.09 billion yen ($603.6 million) [8]
- January 31 - A monitoring group claims that ISIL has reportedly released a video showing the execution of Japanese hostage Kenji Goto.
February
- February 1 - JAXA and Mitsubishi Heavy Industry conduct its first launch of a Information Gathering Satellite with the aid of H-IIA rocket F-27 from Tanegashima Space Center.[9]
- February 17 - The Supreme Court finalizes the death sentence for Tomohiro Kato, the man convicted of killing seven people and wounding 10 others in an indiscriminate rampage in Akihabara district, Tokyo in June 8, 2008.[10]
- February 20 - The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department Public Security Bureau arrests Tsutomu Shirosaki, a Japanese Red Army member, for attempted arson associated with a 1986 mortar attack in Indonesia as he returned to Narita Airport following his release from a prison the US in January and deportation in February.[11]
- February 23 - Agricultural Minister Koya Nishikawa resigns over a fundraising scandal and is succeeded by Yoshimasa Hayashi, whom Nishikawa replaced as agriculture minister in September 2014.[12]
- February 26
- The Supreme Court endorses punishment issued by Kaiyukan, an aquarium in Osaka, including suspensions, against two male managers for sexual harassment, overturning the ruling by Osaka High Court that said the penalties were too heavy, making the first decision over such issues by the Japanese Supreme Court.[13]
- Prince William makes his first visit to Japan, visiting Fukushima Prefecture and Miyagi Prefecture, the areas affected by 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.[14]
March
- March 2 - Rugby World Cup Ltd. and the Rugby World Cup 2019 organizing committee announce 12 venues, including a new stadium to be built in Kamaishi, Iwate, a city affected by 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, to host 2019 Rugby World Cup matches.[15]
- March 3 - Paul Allen, a co-founder of Microsoft and philanthropist, announces that he has discovered Japanese battleship Musashi, more than 70 years after it was sunk by the United States Navy, in Sibuyan Sea, Philippines.[16]
- March 10
- Surpreme Court reject prosecutors' claims that a 41-year-old man from Osaka Prefecture evaded 570 million yen in taxes by failing to declare income from betting on horse races, confirming that money lost betting on horses can, for tax purposes, be considered expenses deductible from winnings.[17]
- FamilyMart and UNY Group Holdings, the holding company of Circle K Sunkus, reach an agreement to merge in September 2016, forming the second biggest convenience store operator by sales in Japan, under a single brand name.[18]
- Yukio Hatoyama, a former Prime Minister and a former leader of the DPJ, makes a personal visit to Crimea, despite urges by the Japanese government not to visit, entering the territory with a Russian visa, which is against the policy of Japanese government. Georgy Muradov, deputy prime minister of the pro-Russian Crimean Republic, met Hatoyama at Simferopol International Airport.[19]
- March 12 - A 46-year-old man, arrested in Hawaii in 2014 for a murder case which occurred in 2007, admits after entering a guilty plea at a court in San Diego that he killed his Japanese wife and left her body in the Anza-Borrego Desert, California. [20]
- March 14 - Hokuriku Shinkansen starts its service between Nagano Station and Kanazawa Station in Ishikawa Prefecture, cutting travel time between Tokyo Station and Kanazawa stations by about eighty minutes to as little as two hours and twenty-eight minutes.[21]
- March 18 - Three Japanese were killed and another three were injured in Bardo National Museum attack occurred in Tunis, Tunisia[22]
- March 24 - Two Japanese nationals were killed in the crash of Germanwings flight 9525.[23]
- March 27 - Main Keep of Himeji Castle, one of the National Treasures of Japan as well as a Cultural property of the World Heritage Site, has reopened to the public after a major five-year face-lift.[24]
April
- April 8 - Narita Airport has opened new Terminal 3, designated for Low-cost carriers.[25]
- April 8 - 9 - Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko have made a first visit to Palau, attending a reception hosted by President of Palau Tommy Remengesau, which President of the Federated States of Micronesia Manny Mori and President of the Marshall Islands Christopher Loeak also attend. On the following day, the Emperor and the Empress have made their visit to the island of Peleliu, where some 10,000 soldiers of Japanese Imperial Army had been killed while countering U.S. forces in 1944.[26]
- April 10 - Nikkei 225 index has reached 20,006.00 in the first few minutes of trade, passing 20,000 level first time since April 2000.[27]
- April 12 - In the first round of Japanese unified local elections, all 10 incumbent governors and 4 mayors of designated cities run for the campaigns have been re-elected.[28]
- April 14
- South Korean government has lifted the departure ban on a former chief of The Sankei Shimbun's Seoul Bureau, who was indicted in October 2014 as defaming President Park Geun-hye through an article, posted on a Sankei website, that referred to a rumor that Park was seeing a man on the day of the Sewol ferry disaster in April 2014, eight months after barring him from leaving the country.[29]
- Fukui District Court has banned Kansai Electric Power to restart No. 3 and 4 reactors of Takahama Nuclear Power Plant in Fukui Prefecture.[30]
- Asiana Airlines Flight 162, an Airbus A320 aircraft, has skidded off the runway of Hiroshima Airport, injures 27.[31]
- April 17 - Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has met Takeshi Onaga, Governor of Okinawa Prefecture for the first time to push ahead with the government plan to relocate a U.S. military base in Futenma to the proposed location around Camp Schwab in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, but failed to reach agreement over the relocation.[32]
- April 22
- Kagoshima District Court has rejected an attempt by local residents to halt the restart of two nuclear reactors at Sendai Nuclear Power Plant in Satsumasendai, Kagoshima Prefecture, which restart was approved by Japanese Nuclear Regulation Authority back in September 2014.[33]
- A drone which has trace levels of radioactive cesium is discovered on the roof of the Prime Minister's Official Residence, while the Prime Minister has been in Jakarta to attend an 60th Anniversary Conference Summit of Afro-Asia Conference.[34] A 40-year old man has been arrested on April 24, as he turned himself in to police in Fukui prefecture, claiming that he landed the drone in protest against the Japanese government's nuclear energy policy.[35]
Culture
- July 28 - August 8 - Japan will host the 23rd World Scout Jamboree.
Arts and entertainment
- Events in anime: 2015 in anime.
- Japanese films released this year: List of Japanese films of 2015.
- Events in television: 2015 in Japanese television.
Sports
- January 23
- Yokozuna Grand Champion Hakuhō Shō wins his 33rd career championship with two days to spare at the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament in Ryogoku Kokugikan, surpassing the record of 32 titles he shared with sumo legend Taiho Koki, who made the long-lasting record in 1971.[36]
- The Japan national football team loses to UAE in a penalty shootout after a 1-1 draw at a quarterfinal match of 2015 AFC Asian Cup, making their first dropout as early as the quarterfinal of the knockout stage of the AFC Asian Cup in 19 years since they have lost to Kuwait 0-2 at the quarterfinal of the 1996 edition, when the national team had never made it to the FIFA World Cup yet.[37]
- February 3 - The Japan Football Association(JFA) fires Javier Aguirre as the manager of Japan national football team, as Aguirre has been involved in an ongoing match-fixing investigation, over the Real Zaragoza's 2-1 win against Levante UD on the final day of the 2010–11 La Liga, when Aguirre was the head coach of Zaragoza.[38]
- February 21 - Takashi Uchiyama, the super featherweight champion of the World Boxing Association, is promoted to the status of super champion.[39]
- March 12 - The JFA announces that Vahid Halilhodžić has been named as the new manager of Japan national football team.[40]
- March 13 - Yu Darvish, a pitcher of Major League Baseball club Texas Rangers, announces that he has decided to undergo Tommy John surgery on his right elbow, which likely will sideline Darvish until early 2016. [41]
- March 14-22 - 2015 World Women's Curling Championship is held at Tsukisamu Gymnasium, Sapporo[42]
- March 15 - Yusuke Suzuki sets the new 20km race walk world record of 1:16:36, breaking the former world record set by Yohann Diniz by 26 seconds, at the Asian Race Walking Championships.[43]
- March 28 - Yoshihide Kiryu has run the men's 100 meters at 9.87 seconds to win the men's invitational sprint at the Texas Relays, making the fastest ever electronically recorded performance by an Asian sprinter under any conditions. [44]
- April 4 - Mieko Nagaoka has become the first 100-year-old in the world to complete a 1,500-meter freestyle swimming in a time of just over 1 hour and 15 minutes, using a backstroke the whole way, in a 25-meter pool.[45]
- September 8-23 - 2015 FIVB Volleyball Men's World Cup is held at 6 venues in 5 cities over Japan.
Deaths
January
- January 12
- Keiko Hanagata, voice actress (b. 1935)
- Akira Kinoshita, photographer (b. 1936)
- January 15 – Chikao Ōtsuka, actor and voice actor (b. 1929)
- January 17 – Kazumasa Hirai, novelist (b. 1938)
- January 18 – Yasuaki Taiho, baseball player (b. 1963)
- January 20 – Hitoshi Saito, judoka (b. 1961)
- January 29
- Taeko Kono, writer and critic (b. 1926)
- Riichiro Manabe, composer (b. 1924)
- Tenkoko Sonoda, politician (b. 1919)
February
- February 8 – Kenji Ekuan, industrial designer (b. 1929)
- February 12 – Tomie Ohtake, artist (naturalized to Brazil) (b. 1913)
- February 14 – Sheena, musician (b. 1953)
- February 19 – Yutaka Katayama, businessman (b. 1909)
- February 21 – Bandō Mitsugorō X, kabuki actor (b. 1956)
- February 28 – Shigeo Takii, justice of the Supreme Court of Japan (b. 1936)
March
- March 3 – Sangojugo, member of Tokyo Shock Boys (b. 1962)
- March 7
- Shinji Ogawa, actor and voice actor (b. 1941)
- Yoshihiro Tatsumi, manga artist (b. 1935)
- March 16 – Kuniyoshi Kaneko, painter, illustrator and photographer (b.1936)
- March 19 – Katsura Beicho III, rakugoka (b.1925)
- March 31 – Cocoa Fujiwara, mangaka and illustrator (b. 1983)
April
- April 1 - Misao Okawa, Supercentenarian, the verified oldest Japanese person ever, the oldest person ever born in Asia, and the fifth oldest verified person ever recorded.(b. 1898)
- April 15 - Kinya Aikawa, actor, TV presenter, and voice actor (b. 1934)
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