1960 in Japan


Events in the year 1960 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 35 in the Japanese calendar.
1960 was a year of prolonged and intense political struggles in Japan. The massive and often quite violent Miike Coal Mine Strike at the Miike Coal Mine in Kyushu lasted nearly the entire year, and the massive nationwide Anpo Protests against renewal of the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty carried over from 1959 and climaxed in June, forcing the resignation of Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi and the cancellation of a planned visit to Japan by then-American President Dwight D. Eisenhower. In October, Japan Socialist Party Chairman Inejirō Asanuma was assassinated by a right-wing nationalist during a debate in the runup to that year's general election.

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Births

Many notable Japanese individuals from Young Japanese Baby Boom/Danso Generation were born in 1960, such as Shinya Tsukamoto, Kumiko Ōba, Miki Narahashi, Emperor Naruhito, Hideaki Ōmura, Maki Nomiya, Yoko Tawada, Hiromi Tsuru, Kanako Fukaura, Osamu Sato, Izumi Aki, Hideaki Anno, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure creator Hirohiko Araki, Mizue Takada, Yūko Asano, anime director Hiroshi Negishi, Michie Nakamaru, Jun Miho, Yuki Ninagawa, Asa Nonami, Takashi Miike, Seiko Noda, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Hiroshi Amano, Misako Konno, Mayo Suzukaze, Hitomi Kuroki, Kyosuke Himuro, Kōji Kamibayashi, Hiroyuki Sanada, Eri Ishida, Naomi Kawashima, Koichi Sato, Miki Takakura, Tarako, and Kazuhide Uekusa. While many notable Japanese individuals from Shinjinrui Generation were born within Capricorn, roughly between December 22 and 31 of the same year, such as Fuyumi Ono and Kayoko Kishimoto.

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