1975 in Japan
Events from the year 1975 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 50 in the Japanese calendar.Incumbents
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- The Return of the Sister Street Fighter, directed by Kazuhiko Yamaguchi
- Terror of Mechagodzilla, directed by Ishirō Honda
- Tokyo Emmanuelle
- Tora-san's Rise and Fall, directed by Yoji Yamada
- Tora-san, the Intellectual, directed by Yoji Yamada
- A Woman Called Sada Abe, directed by Noboru Tanaka
Births
- January 1 - Eiichiro Oda, illustrator and author
- January 6 - Yukana, voice actress and singer
- January 8 - Reiko Chiba, actress
- January 28 - Hiroshi Kamiya, voice actor
- January 30 - Yumi Yoshimura, singer
- February 6 - Tomoko Kawase, singer
- February 17 - Michiko Kichise, actress
- February 10 - Hiroki Kuroda, baseball pitcher
- April 3
- * Koji Uehara, baseball pitcher
- * Yoshinobu Takahashi, professional baseball player
- April 27 - Kazuyoshi Funaki, ski jumper
- May 19 - Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro, manga artist
- June 22 - Yuka Itaya, actress
- July 5 - Ai Sugiyama, tennis player
- July 22 - Kenshin Kawakami, baseball pitcher
- August 1 - Ryoko Yonekura, actress
- August 11 - Kishō Taniyama, voice actor
- August 24 - Hayato Sakurai, martial artist
- August 28 - Yūko Gotō, voice actress
- September 6 - Ryoko Tani, judoka
- November 11 - Daisuke Ohata, rugby union player
- November 16 - Yuki Uchida, actress
- December 12 - Kuwashima Houko, voice actress
- December 15 - Haruna Ikezawa, actress and voice actress
- December 16 - Masaki Sumitani, television performer
- December 30 - Yoma Komatsu, singer
Deaths
- February 11 - Hideo Shinojima, footballer
- May 30 - Tatsuo Shimabuku, martial artist and founder of Isshin-ryu karate
- June 3 - Eisaku Satō, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
- November 20 - Tokushichi Mishima, inventor and engineer