2015 in Japan

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2015
in
Japan

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See also:Other events of 2015
History of Japan  • Timeline  • Years

The following lists events that happened during 2015 in Japan.

Incumbents

Governors

Events

January

February

March

April

April 21 At Yamanashi Test Track, a seven car maglev train set a new land speed record for rail vehicles at 603 km/h. It is the only rail vehicle ever surpassed 600 km/h speed mark

May

  • May 17 – A dormitory apartment fire in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, according to Fire and Disaster Management Agency official confirmed report, 11 peoples lost to lives, with 17 are injures.[40]
  • May 29 – Kuchinoerabu-jima erupts, with pyroclastic flows reaching the coast.[41]
  • May 30 – An abnormally intense magnitude 7.8 earthquake occurs in the Bonin Islands, with shaking observed throughout the territory. Official reports confirm 13 injuries.[42]

June

July

August

September

October

The Nobel Prize

Culture

Arts and entertainment

Sports

Deaths

Tenkoko Sonoda
Nobutaka Machimura
Takanonami Sadahiro
Satoru Iwata


January

February

March

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)

May

June

July

  • July 11 – Satoru Iwata, video game designer and businessman (b. 1959)

August

September

October

November

December

See also

References

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