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2009
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Events in the year 2009 in Japan.

Incumbents

Governors

Events

January

February

March

April

May

  • May 9 – 2009 flu pandemic:Three high-school students came back from Detroit, Michigan, United States to Narita International Airport are confirmed as first H1N1 influenza-infected case in Japan. [24]
  • May 11 – Osaka Regional Court sentences Tetsuya Komuro to three years in prison with a five-year suspended sentence for fraud. [25]
  • May 15 – Fukuoka High Court sentences former Fukuoka city office worker who drank a "considerable amount of alcohol" before causing a traffic accident that killed three children in 2006, to twenty years in prison, dismissing a 7+12-year term ruled by Fukuoka Regional Court. [26]
  • May 21 – Jury Law goes into effect. [27]

June

  • June 1 – A modification of the law on sales of medications takes effect. The law classifies products into three categories and allows over-the-counter sales of two at convenience-stores and supermarkets with a registered sales agent present, while requiring a pharmacist to oversee sales of the third category. Convenience stores begin sales of vitamins, analgesics and cold remedies. [28]
  • June 1 – Amended Road Traffic Law, which requires 75 years or older people to take mandatory cognitive function tests upon renewal of their licenses, goes into effect. [29]
  • June 4 – Tokyo Public Prosecutors Office decides to release Toshikazu Sugaya, who allegedly sentenced indefinite imprisonment for kidnapping and murdering a 4-year-old girl in Ashikaga, Tochigi, after 17 years of imprisonment, due to the result of fresh DNA test which proved that his case was false imprisonment. [30]
  • June 4 – Inauguration of Shizuoka Airport. [31]
  • June 16 – 10 climbers lost their lives in the Taisetsu mountain range in Hokkaido. Hokkaido Police raided the head office and a local branch of Amuse travel on suspicion of improper management of a guided tour on June 18. [32]

July

August

September

October

November

December

Prefectural elections

Deaths

See also

References

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