1985 in Japan

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← 1984 1983 1982 1985 in Japan → 1986 1987 1988
Decades:	1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s
See also:	Other events of 1985 History of Japan  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year 1985 in Japan which correspond to Shōwa 60 (昭和60年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

• Emperor: Hirohito (Emperor Shōwa)
• Prime Minister: Yasuhiro Nakasone (L–Gunma, 2nd term)
• Chief Cabinet Secretary: Takao Fujinami (L–Mie) until December 28, Masaharu Gotōda (L–Tokushima)
• Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Jirō Terata until November 3, Kōichi Yaguchi from November 5
• President of the House of Representatives: Kenji Fukunaga (L–Saitama) until January 24, Michita Sakata (L–Kumamoto)
• President of the House of Councillors: Mutsuo Kimura (L–Okayama)
• Diet sessions: 102nd (regular session opened in December 1984, to June 25), 103rd (extraordinary, October 14 to December 21), 104th (regular, December 24 to 1986, May 22)

Events

• January 28 – twenty-five people were killed when a charter bus carrying students on a ski tour plunged into a river in Nagano.
• March 17 – September 16 – Expo '85 was held at the Tsukuba, Ibaraki prefecture.
• May 17 – sixty-two people were killed after a gas explosion in a Mitsubishi Yubari coal mine, located in Yubari, Hokkaido.
• June 23 – 1985 Narita International Airport bombing; two people were killed.
• August 7 – Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's first astronauts.
• August 12 – Japan Air Lines Flight 123 crashes into Mount Takamagahara. All fifteen crew members and five hundred-five passengers died.
• September 13 – Super Mario Bros. was released for the Family Computer.

Popular culture

Births

• January 5 – Yuka Koide, model and actress
• January 11 – Rie fu, singer-songwriter
• January 17 – Riyu Kosaka, J-pop singer
• January 20 – Marina Inoue, voice actress and singer
• January 22 – Akira Nagata, singer (Run&Gun), actor and voice actor
• January 28 – Aya Miyama, football player
• January 29
  • Joji Takeuchi, basketball player
  • Kosuke Takeuchi, basketball player
• February 6
  • Joji Kato, speedskater
  • Saki Kagami, actress
• February 17 – Hiroko Sato, actress, singer
• February 28 – Rin Aoki, model and AV actress
• March 6 – Maya Nakanishi, Paralympic athlete
• March 8 – Mio Takeuchi, actress
• March 24
  • Haruka Ayase, actress
  • Sayaka Hirano, table tennis player
• March 25 – Yūsuke Kobayashi, Japanese voice actor
• March 28 – Akiko Suzuki, figure skater
• April 9 – Tomohisa Yamashita, idol, singer
• April 21 – Takuro Fujii, swimmer
• April 24 – Kaori Nazuka, voice actress
• April 26 – Adachi Yurie, ice hockey player
• May 5 – Shoko Nakagawa, actress, voice actress and singer
• May 11 – Sifow, singer
• May 13 – Yusuke Minato, Nordic combined skier
• May 29
  • Nozomi Komuro, skeleton racer
  • Yukihiro Takiguchi, Japanese actor, singer and model (d. 2019)
• June 2 – Miyuki Sawashiro, voice actress
• June 7 – Marie Miyake, voice actress
• June 19 – Ai Miyazato, golfer
• June 22 – Rosa Kato, actress and model
• June 23 – Kavka Shishido, drummer and vocalist
• June 27 – Hiroyuki Taniguchi, football player
• July 3 – Keisuke Minami, actor, singer
• July 11
  • Aki Maeda, actress, singer
  • Takahisa Nishiyama, football player
• July 16
  • Yōko Hikasa, Japanese actress
  • Hiroyuki Onoue, Japanese actor
• July 22 – Akira Tozawa, professional wrestler
• August 17 – Yū Aoi, actress and model
• August 25 – Naho Emoto, baseball player
• September 1 – Kosuke Nakamachi, football player
• September 2 – Hiroyuki Oze, baseball player (d. 2010)
• September 3 – Yūki Kaji, voice actor
• September 10
  • Aya Kamiki, singer
  • Shota Matsuda, actor
• September 11 – Kazutaka Murase, football player
• September 13 – Emi Suzuki, Chinese-born Japanese female model
• September 20 – Mami Yamasaki, gravure idol
• September 23 – Maki Goto, singer, lyricist and former actress
• September 24 – Yōhei Kajiyama, football player
• September 25 – Asami Tanno, sprinter
• October 3 – Megumi Takamoto, voice actress and singer
• October 6 – Yasuharu Nanri, figure skater
• October 8 – Eiji Wentz, singer, entertainer, and actor
• October 13 – Yoshihisa Naruse, baseball player
• October 18 – Iori Nomizu, voice actress, actress and singer
• October 21 – Yasuhiro Inaba, freestyle wrestler
• October 22
  • Manpei Takagi, actor
  • Shinpei Takagi, actor
• November 18 – Hiromi Miyake, weightlifter
• November 25 – Masatsugu Kawachi, boxer
• November 30
  • Hikari Mitsushima, actress, singer
  • Aoi Miyazaki, actress
• December 14
  • Katsuya Kitamura, wrestler (d. 2022)
  • Nonami Takizawa, actress
• December 15 – Madoka Harada, luger
• December 16 – Keita Tachibana, singer
• December 22 – Yuta Ikeda, golfer
• December 26 – Yuu Shirota, actor
• December 27 – Daiki Ito, ski jumper

Deaths

• January 9 – Nichidatsu Fujii, Buddhist monk (b. 1885)
• January 27 – Masahisa Takenaka, 4th kumicho of the Yamaguchi-gumi (b. 1933)
• January 31 – Tatsuzō Ishikawa, novelist (b. 1905)
• March 30
  • Kenkichi Oshima, athlete (b. 1908)
  • Yaeko Nogami, author (b. 1885)
  • Shizuko Kasagi, singer (b. 1914)
• April 12 – Seiji Miyaguchi, actor (b. 1913)
• June 9 – Matsutarō Kawaguchi, novelist (b. 1899)
• June 24 – Kuninori Marumo, admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy (b. 1891)
• July 7 – Shōzō Sakurai, general (b. 1899)
• August 12 – Kyu Sakamoto, singer and actor (b. 1941)
• August 17 – Matsuo Kishi, film critic, filmmaker (b. 1906)
• September 11 – Masako Natsume, model and actress (b. 1957)
• September 27 – Ryūtarō Ōtomo, film actor (b. 1912)
• October 13 – Eiji Kanie, voice actor (b. 1941)
• October 21 – Masuiyama Daishirō I, sumo wrestler (b. 1919)
• October 26 – Kikuko Kawakami, author (b. 1904)
• November 1 – Ōuchiyama Heikichi, sumo wrestler (b. 1926)
• December 21 – Kamatari Fujiwara, actor (b. 1905)
• December 24 – Kouzou Sasaki, politician, chairman of the Japan Socialist Party (b. 1900)

See also

• 1985 in Japanese television
• List of Japanese films of 1985

References