2014 in Japan


Events in the year 2014 in Japan.

Incumbents

Governors

Events

Electoral calendar

Additional early elections may be caused by resignations, deaths, recalls, no-confidence votes, etc.

Other Events

The Nobel Prize

Popular culture

Arts and entertainment

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.

Sports

For the Japanese participation in the 2014 Winter Olympics, see Japan at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

Deaths

January

February

  • February 3 – Hiroyuki Suzuki, 68, architectural historian, pneumonia.
  • February 6 – Tōru Mori, 78, baseball player, hepatocellular carcinoma.
  • February 10 – Hōzan Yamamoto, 76, musician.
  • February 13 – Ken'ichi Yamamoto, 57, novelist, lung cancer.
  • February 17 – Kokichi Shimoinaba, 87, politician, sepsis.
  • February 19 – Toshiko D'Elia, 84, Japanese-born American long-distance runner, brain cancer.
  • February 26 – Fumio Yamamoto, 79, news presenter, alveolar hemorrhage.
  • February 28 – Michio Mado, 104, poet.

March

April

  • April 11 – Minoru Sano, 63, chef, multiple organ failure.
  • April 20 – Yoshio Shinozuka, 90, Imperial Army soldier.

May

June

  • June 1
  • * Tarō Naka, 92, poet, pneumonia.
  • *Yuri Kochiyama, 93, Japanese American internment camp detainee and civil rights activist, natural causes.
  • June 2 – Gorō Nishida, 70, mathematician, septic shock.
  • June 3
  • * Itsuko Ueda, 85, fashion designer, heart failure.
  • * Kaneyasu Marutani, 94, politician, member of the House of Councillors.
  • June 4
  • * Yasuo Masumoto, 67, industrial and farm machinery executive, chairman and president of Kubota.
  • * Ryūzō Hayashi, 70, actor, kidney failure.
  • June 8
  • * Yoshihito, Prince Katsura, 66, royal, acute heart failure.
  • * Taruhi Furuta, 86, writer and critic, heart failure.
  • June 10 – Sōhei Kondō, 92, genetician, multiple organ failure
  • June 11
  • * Kunie Iwahashi, 74, writer, peritonitis.
  • * Kōbun Kurata, 74, poet, colorectal cancer.
  • * Hiroyuki Nakagawa, 77, composer, lung cancer.
  • * Fujio Morita, 86, cinematographer, glioblastoma.
  • June 13 – Tadahiko Hirano, 76, baritone, heart attack.
  • June 20 – Akio Yokoyama, 83, actor, pneumonia.
  • June 21
  • * Hiroaki Fujii, 88, producer, heart failure.
  • * Yukio Fukamachi, 83, producer and director.
  • * Chūzō Ichiko, 101, historian.
  • * Yozo Ishikawa, 88, politician, Director General of the Defense Agency, member of the House of Representatives for Tokyo, acute respiratory failure.
  • June 23 – Ichirō Komatsu, 63, Japanese civil servant and diplomat, Director-General of the Cabinet Legislation Bureau, Ambassador to Switzerland and France.
  • June 27 – Haruhiko Saitō, 73, actor.

July

  • July 3
  • * Haruichiban, 47, entertainer, cirrhosis.
  • * Mazakazu Koayashi, 44, hang-glider, flight collision during competition.
  • July 5 – Masamitsu Iwamoto, 85, politician, stroke.
  • July 9 – Yuzuru Ninagawa, 89, scholar of French literature, pneumonia.
  • July 10 – On Kawara, 81, conceptual artist.
  • July 14 – Yūsuke Fukada, 82, writer, pneumonia.
  • July 18
  • * Gankurō Ōtaya, 60, entertainer, intracranial hemorrhage.
  • * Makoto Sakuma, 79, Self-Defense Forces official, heart attack.
  • July 20 – Kazuo Ichiriki, 88, sumo executive, Chairman of Yokozuna Deliberation Council.
  • July 25 – Fusao Ōkubo, 92, writer and editor, duodenal papilla cancer.
  • July 27 – Kyozan Joshu Sasaki, 107, Japanese-born American Rinzai Zen teacher.
  • July 31 – Shigefumi Fukatsu, 46, playwright and theater producer, lung cancer.

August

September

October

November

December