Events in the year 2024 in Japan.
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Incumbents edit
- Emperor: Naruhito[1]
- Prime Minister: Fumio Kishida
- Chief Cabinet Secretary: Hirokazu Matsuno
- Chief Justice of Japan: Saburo Tokura
- Speaker of the House of Representatives: Fukushiro Nukaga
- President of the House of Councillors: Hidehisa Otsuji
Governors edit
- Aichi Prefecture: Hideaki Omura
- Akita Prefecture: Norihisa Satake
- Aomori Prefecture: Sōichirō Miyashita
- Chiba Prefecture: Toshihito Kumagai
- Ehime Prefecture: Tokihiro Nakamura
- Fukui Prefecture: Tatsuji Sugimoto
- Fukuoka Prefecture: Seitaro Hattori
- Fukushima Prefecture: Masao Uchibori
- Gifu Prefecture: Hajime Furuta
- Gunma Prefecture: Ichita Yamamoto
- Hiroshima Prefecture: Hidehiko Yuzaki
- Hokkaido: Naomichi Suzuki
- Hyogo Prefecture: Motohiko Saitō
- Ibaraki Prefecture: Kazuhiko Ōigawa
- Ishikawa: Masanori Tanimoto
- Iwate Prefecture: Takuya Tasso
- Kagawa Prefecture: Keizō Hamada
- Kagoshima Prefecture: Kōichi Shiota
- Kanagawa Prefecture: Yuji Kuroiwa
- Kumamoto Prefecture: Ikuo Kabashima
- Kochi Prefecture: Seiji Hamada
- Kyoto Prefecture: Takatoshi Nishiwaki
- Mie Prefecture: Eikei Suzuki
- Miyagi Prefecture: Yoshihiro Murai
- Miyazaki Prefecture: Shunji Kōno
- Nagano Prefecture: Shuichi Abe
- Nagasaki Prefecture: Hōdō Nakamura
- Nara Prefecture: Makoto Yamashita
- Niigata Prefecture: Hideyo Hanazumi
- Oita Prefecture: Kiichiro Sato
- Okayama Prefecture: Ryuta Ibaragi
- Okinawa Prefecture: Denny Tamaki
- Osaka Prefecture: Hirofumi Yoshimura
- Saga Prefecture: Yoshinori Yamaguchi
- Saitama Prefecture: Motohiro Ōno
- Shiga Prefecture: Taizō Mikazuki
- Shimame Prefecture: Tatsuya Maruyama
- Shizuoka Prefecture: Heita Kawakatsu
- Tochigi Prefecture: Tomikazu Fukuda
- Tokushima Prefecture: Masazumi Gotoda
- Tokyo Prefecture: Yuriko Koike
- Tottori Prefecture: Shinji Hirai
- Toyama Prefecture: Hachiro Nitta
- Wakayama Prefecture: Shūhei Kishimoto
- Yamagata Prefecture: Mieko Yoshimura
- Yamaguchi Prefecture: Tsugumasa Muraoka
- Yamanashi Prefecture: Kotaro Nagasaki
Arts and entertainment edit
Events edit
January edit
- January 1 –
- Six wards in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, including Naka-ku, Minami-ku, Higashi-ku, Nishi-ku, and Kita-ku, will be disestablished and two new wards, including Hamana-ku and Chūō-ku, will be established instead.[2]
- A 7.5 magnitude earthquake strikes Ishikawa Prefecture.[3]
- January 2 – 2024 Haneda Airport runway collision: A Japan Airlines Airbus A350-900 collides with a Japan Coast Guard DHC-8 aircraft and bursts into flame at Tokyo's Haneda Airport. The Coast guard plane was going to deliver aid to those affected by the 2024 Japan earthquake the day before. All 379 occupants aboard the Japan Airlines flight were evacuated, while five of the six occupants aboard the Coast Guard aircraft were killed.[4]
- January 3 – Three men are stabbed on a train at Akihabara Station, Tokyo. A woman is arrested by police.[5]
- January 5 – The death toll from the magnitude 7.6 earthquake in the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, on January 1, increases to 94 people. At least 222 others are still missing.[6]
- January 12 – The death toll from the magnitude 7.6 earthquake in the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, on January 1, increases to 215 people. Thirty-eight others are still missing.[7]
Sports edit
- March 30 – 2023–24 Formula E World Championship is held at 2024 Tokyo E-Prix
- April 7 – 2024 Formula One World Championship is held at 2024 Japanese Grand Prix
- September 15 – 2024 FIA World Endurance Championship is held at 2024 8 Hours of Fuji
- October 6 – 2024 MotoGP World Championship is held at 2024 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix
- 2024 F4 Japanese Championship
- 2024 Super Formula Championship
- 2024 Super Formula Lights
- 2024 Super GT Series
- 2024 in Japanese football
- 2024 J1 League
- 2024 J2 League
- 2024 J3 League
- 2024 Japan Football League
- 2024 Japanese Regional Leagues
- 2024 Japanese Super Cup
- 2024 Emperor's Cup
- 2024 J.League Cup
Deaths edit
January edit
- January 3 – Kunihiko Muroi, politician (b. 1947)[8]
- January 4 – Kishin Shinoyama, photographer (b. 1940)
See also edit
Country overviews edit
Related timelines for current period edit
References edit
- ^ "Naruhito | Reign, History, & Family | Britannica". www.britannica.com. Retrieved July 8, 2022.
- ^ 区再編ガイドブック（広報はままつ臨時号）PDF版 (in Japanese) Hamamatsu City, November 5, 2023
- ^ "M 7.5 - 42 km NE of Anamizu, Japan". United States Geological Survey. January 1, 2024. Archived from the original on January 1, 2024. Retrieved January 1, 2024.
- ^ "Japan Airlines plane fire: Five dead on coastguard plane after crash with jet on Haneda Airport runway". BBC News. January 2, 2024. Retrieved January 2, 2024.
- ^ Shimbun, The Yomiuri (January 4, 2024). "4 Men Stabbed on JR Yamanote Line; Woman in 20s Arrested at Tokyo's Akihabara Station". japannews.yomiuri.co.jp. Retrieved January 3, 2024.
- ^ "Survivors are found in homes smashed by Japan quake that killed 94 people. Dozens are still missing". AP News. January 5, 2024. Retrieved January 5, 2024.
- ^ 日本放送協会 (January 12, 2024). "【被害状況 12日】石川県で215人死亡 安否不明者28人(午後2時) | NHK". NHKニュース. Retrieved January 12, 2024.
- ^ "維新の会の参院議員、室井邦彦氏が死去…76歳". 読売新聞オンライン (in Japanese). January 4, 2024. Retrieved January 4, 2024.
