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Events in the year 2014 in Japan.
Additional early elections may be caused by resignations, deaths, recalls, no-confidence votes, etc.
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.
For the Japanese participation in the 2014 Winter Olympics, see Japan at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Yoshiko Tanaka was a Japanese actress. She was also famous as a member of the pop group Candies. While a member of Candies, Tanaka was known by the nickname "Sue". Still at the height of its popularity, the group disbanded in 1978. Tanaka was also the sister-in-law of the well-known actress Masako Natsume.
Yumi Shirakawa was a Japanese film and television actress. She was called the Japanese Grace Kelly when she debuted. She was scouted and joined Toho film company. In the same year, she made her film debut with Narazumono. Her notable films are Rodan (1956), The H-Man (1958), and Yasujirō Ozu’s film The End of Summer (1961). She was married to actor Hideaki Nitani until his death in 2012.
Tetsuya Watari born Michihiko Watase was a Japanese film, stage, and television actor.
This article lists events in 2011 in Japan.
Katsuhikari Toshio was a Japanese sumo wrestler. He made his professional debut in November 1958 and reached the top division in September 1969. His highest rank was maegashira 1. Upon retirement from active competition he became an elder in the Japan Sumo Association under the name Wakafuji. He reached the Sumo Association's mandatory retirement age in August 2007. He died from cancer of the bile duct on 1 January 2018 aged 75.
Tokiko Iwatani was a Japanese lyricist, poet, and translator.
Toshio Udō was a Japanese writer and literary critic.
Yōko Mitsui was a Japanese poet.
Osamu Yoshioka was a renowned Japanese lyricist. Vice-president of the Japan Lyricists' Association. Earlier he used the pen name "吉岡オサム".
Events in 2016 in Japanese television.
Mikio Kudō was a Japanese professional baseball pitcher. He played five seasons in Nippon Professional Baseball, all for the Nippon Ham Fighters. He was selected out of Akita Prefectural Honjō High School as the second overall pick in the 1978 NPB draft, and made his professional debut that season, becoming the fastest player to ever make his Japanese professional debut. He went 20-4, leading the league in wins in 1982. He died of liver failure in Akita, Akita on May 13, 2016, at the age of 55.
Makoto Taniguchi was a Japanese diplomat and academic who was Ambassador of Japan to the United Nations and Chairman of UNICEF in 1988.
Susumu Takita, known by the stage name Yūsuke Takita, was a Japanese actor. He was born in Kitazawa, Setagaya, Ehara, Tokyo Prefecture. He formerly belonged to Gekidan Haiyūza.
Events in 2019 in Japanese television.
Jun'ya Yokota was a Japanese science fiction writer and a researcher of Meiji era cultural history. He is the winner of multiple Taisho Awards, the Ozaki Memorial Prize, and the Mystery Writers of Japan Award.
Fumiko Hori was a Japanese artist, known for her paintings in the Nihonga style.
Events in 2020 in Japanese television.
Ai Kidosaki was a Japanese author and chef best known for her career on the Kyō no Ryōri cooking programme.
Tadaki Nishiyama, better known under the pen names Shizuka Ijūin and Ayumi Date, was a Japanese writer and lyricist.
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