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List of events
Events in the year 2010 in
Japan .
Incumbents
Governors
Events
The launch of the venus probe
Akatsuki , 20 May 2010
January 1 – The towns of
Nijō and
Shima merged with the city of
Maebaru to form the
city of Itoshima .
January 3 – Japan doubles a state-sponsored credit line to troubled airline
Japan Airlines to ¥200bn (US$2.2bn).
[2]
[3]
January 6 – Japanese Finance Minister
Hirohisa Fujii resigns at the age of 77 due to ill health.
[4]
January 12 – A
gunman kills three people at a bar in
Habikino , Japan, before turning the gun on himself.
January 19 – Japanese
air carrier
Japan Airlines files for
bankruptcy protection.
[5]
February 1 – The town of
Kozakai merged into the city of
Toyokawa .
May 20 –
JAXA successfully launched the venus probe
Akatsuki (formerly "Planet-C").
[6]
April 17 – Snowfall in central
Tokyo matches a record set in April 1967.
[7]
April 25 – Nearly 100,000 people rally in
Okinawa , Japan, demanding the removal of an American base from the island.
June – September – According to
Japanese government and
Japan Meteorological Agency official confirmed report massive
heat wave and
extreme high temperature hit around Japan, total 1,731 person were human fatalities relative
heat stroke .[
citation needed ]
June 2 – Prime minister
Yukio Hatoyama announced that he would be resigning as Prime Minister.
June 4 –
Naoto Kan is
elected as the leader of the Democratic Party and therefore as
Prime Minister of Japan , defeating
Shinji Tarutoko .
June 13 – The first Japanese asteroid probe,
Hayabusa returned to Earth, after having landed on
25143 Itokawa in an effort to collect samples.
[8]
July 11 –
House of Councillors election
August 9 – Japan marks the 65th anniversary of
the 1945 atomic bombing of
Nagasaki .
September 11 –
Jordan signs a nuclear co-operation treaty with Japan to build a
nuclear power plant within 10 years.[
citation needed ]
September 14 –
Naoto Kan is reelected as the leader of the
Democratic Party of Japan and therefore as
Prime Minister of Japan , defeating powerbroker
Ichiro Ozawa .
[9]
[10]
October 20 - Devastating floods and landslide in
Amami Island , 3 people die.
[11]
December 7 – The spacecraft
Akatsuki reaches
Venus but fails to enter orbit around the planet.
Prefectural elections
The Nobel Prize
Deaths
Takeo Kimura
Ryō Ikebe
January
February
March
April
April 3 –
Yasunori Watanabe , Japanese
rugby player (born 1974)
[33]
April 4 –
Shio Satō , Japanese
manga artist (born 1952)
[34]
April 6 –
Katsumi Nishikawa , Japanese
film director (born 1918)
[35]
April 7 –
Takuya Kimura , Japanese baseball player and coach (born 1972)
[36]
April 9 –
Hisashi Inoue , Japanese pacifist playwright (born 1934)
[37]
April 10 –
Hiro Muramoto , Japanese news cameraman and journalist (born 1966)
[38]
April 20 –
Mr. Hito , Japanese
professional wrestler (born 1942)
[39]
April 27 –
Tanie Kitabayashi , Japanese actress (born 1911)
April 30 –
Tadahiro Ando , Japanese
politician , former
Governor of
Miyazaki Prefecture (born 1895)
[40]
May
June
July
August
September
October
December
See also
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