1973 in Japan

Events in the year 1973 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 48 in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

Emperor: Hirohito
Prime minister: Kakuei Tanaka
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Susumu Nikaido
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Kazuto Ishida until May 19, Tomokazu Murakami from May 21
President of the House of Representatives: Umekichi Nakamura until May 29, Shigesaburō Maeo
President of the House of Councillors: Kenzō Kōno
Diet sessions: 71st, 72nd

Governors

Aichi Prefecture: Mikine Kuwahara
Akita Prefecture: Yūjirō Obata
Aomori Prefecture: Shunkichi Takeuchi
Chiba Prefecture: Taketo Tomonō
Ehime Prefecture: Haruki Shiraishi
Fukui Prefecture: Heidayū Nakagawa
Fukuoka Prefecture: Hikaru Kamei
Fukushima Prefecture: Morie Kimura
Gifu Prefecture: Saburō Hirano
Gunma Prefecture: Konroku Kanda
Hiroshima Prefecture: Iduo Nagano ; Hiroshi Miyazawa
Hokkaido: Naohiro Dōgakinai
Hyogo Prefecture: Tokitada Sakai
Ibaraki Prefecture: Nirō Iwakami
Ishikawa Prefecture: Yōichi Nakanishi
Iwate Prefecture: Tadashi Chida
Kagawa Prefecture: Masanori Kaneko
Kagoshima Prefecture: Saburō Kanemaru
Kanagawa Prefecture: Bunwa Tsuda
Kochi Prefecture: Masumi Mizobuchi
Kumamoto Prefecture: Issei Sawada
Kyoto Prefecture: Torazō Ninagawa
Mie Prefecture: Ryōzō Tagawa
Miyagi Prefecture: Sōichirō Yamamoto
Miyazaki Prefecture: Hiroshi Kuroki
Nagano Prefecture: Gon'ichirō Nishizawa
Nagasaki Prefecture: Kan'ichi Kubo
Nara Prefecture: Ryozo Okuda
Niigata Prefecture: Shiro Watari
Oita Prefecture: Masaru Taki
Okayama Prefecture: Shiro Nagano
Okinawa Prefecture: Chōbyō Yara
Osaka Prefecture: Ryōichi Kuroda
Saga Prefecture: Sunao Ikeda
Saitama Prefecture: Yawara Hata
Shiga Prefecture: Kinichiro Nozaki
Shiname Prefecture: Seiji Tsunematsu
Shizuoka Prefecture: Yūtarō Takeyama
Tochigi Prefecture: Nobuo Yokokawa
Tokushima Prefecture: Yasunobu Takeichi
Tokyo: Ryōkichi Minobe
Tottori Prefecture: Jirō Ishiba ; Kōzō Hirabayashi
Toyama Prefecture: Kokichi Nakada
Wakayama Prefecture: Masao Ohashi
Yamagata Prefecture: Tōkichi Abiko ; Seiichirō Itagaki
Yamaguchi Prefecture: Masayuki Hashimoto
Yamanashi Prefecture: Kunio Tanabe

Events

January 1 - Health care for those over 70 years of age is made free of charge
March 8 - According to Japan Fire and Disaster Management Agency official confirmed report, Yawata General Hospital fire in Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture, total 13 patients were fatalities.
March 19 - Konami is established.
July 23 - Nidec was founded, as predecessor name was Nippon Densan Corporation.
August 17 - Miyama Real Estate, as predecessor of Leopalace founded in Nakano, Tokyo.
September 25 - According to Fire and Disaster Management Agency official confirmed report, a caught fire at under construction for department store in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, kill six construction workers, in an incident caused bx a security guardman has arson acting.
October 27 - A retailer CGC Group founded.
November 29 - Fire breaks out in Taiyo department store in Kumamoto City, killing over a hundred.

Births

January 2 - Michiyo Nakajima, actress, voice actress and former pop singer.
January 11 - Eri Fukatsu, actress
January 16 - Maki Miyamae, pop singer
January 18 - Shinobu Nakayama, singer and former pop singer
January 31 - Shingo Katayama, golfer
February 1 - Makiko Ohmoto, voice actress
February 7 - Mie Sonozaki, voice actress
February 9 - Yoshitomo Tani, former professional baseball player
February 11 - Haruhi Terada, voice actress
February 28 - Masato Tanaka, professional wrestler
March 6 - Rumi Ochiai, voice actress
March 7 - Eiji Takemoto, voice actor
March 24 - Sakura Tange, voice actress and singer
March 27 - Sayaka Aoki, comedian
April 6 - Rie Miyazawa, actress and singer
April 21 - Katsuyuki Konishi, voice actor
May 8 - Hiromu Arakawa, manga artist
May 16 - Kōsuke Toriumi, voice actor
May 18 - Kaz Hayashi, professional wrestler
May 29 - Tomoko Kaneda, voice actress and J-pop singer
June 12 - Mitsuki Saiga, voice actress
June 18 - Yumi Kakazu, voice actress
June 19 - Yuko Nakazawa, singer
June 30 - Hidetada Yamagishi, bodybuilder
July 2 - Makoto Kosaka, former professional baseball player
July 4 - Gackt, singer-songwriter and actor
July 7 - Natsuki Takaya, manga artist
July 16 - Yoshihiko Hakamada, actor
July 17
* Takeshi Kaneshiro, Taiwanese/Japanese actor
* Daimaou Kosaka, comedian
August 13 - Ryōko Shinohara, actress
August 31 - Kaori Mizumori, enka singer
September 1 - Rieko Miura, actress and singer
September 9 - Kazuhisa Ishii, baseball player
September 18 - Ami Onuki, singer
October 11 - Daisuke Sakaguchi, voice actor
October 13 - Nanako Matsushima, actress and model
October 14 - Masato Sakai, actor
October 20 - Tomoka Shibasaki, writer
October 22 - Ichiro Suzuki, baseball player
October 26 - Taka Michinoku, professional wrestler
November 6 - Rumi Shishido, voice actress and singer
December 11 - Yūko Obuchi, politician and cabinet minister
December 19 - Takashi Sorimachi, actor and singer
December 25 - Daisuke Miura, professional baseball coach and former pitcher

Deaths

April 25 - Tanzan Ishibashi, journalist and politician
May 2 - Akiko Seki, soprano
September 15 - Saburō Matsukata, journalist, businessman and mountaineer
September 18 - Ken Harada, first Japanese diplomat to the Holy See
October 7 - Masayuki Mori, actor
November 7 - Kiyohide Shima, admiral
November 23 - Sesue Hayakawa, actor