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Events in the year 2025 in Japan.
Incumbents
[edit]Arts and entertainment
[edit]- 2025 in anime
- 2025 in Japanese music
- 2025 in Japanese television
- List of 2025 box office number-one films in Japan
- List of Japanese films of 2025
Events
[edit]January
[edit]- January 3 – U.S. President Joe Biden blocks the proposed acquisition of U.S. Steel by Nippon Steel.[1]
- January 10 – Eight students are injured in a hammer attack inside the Tama campus of Hosei University in Machida, Tokyo. A 22-year old South Korean national is arrested.[2]
- January 22 – One person is killed while two others are injured in a knife attack outside Nagano Station.[3]
- January 27 – Koichi Minato and Shuji Kanoh resign as the respective president and chair of Fuji Television amid criticism over the network's handling of a sexual abuse scandal involving television personality Masahiro Nakai.[4]
Scheduled and upcoming events
[edit]- April 13 – October 13 – Expo 2025 will be held in Osaka.[5]
- July 27 – 2025 Japanese House of Councillors election
Sports
[edit]- September 13–21 – The 2025 World Athletics Championships will be held in Tokyo.
- April 6 – 2025 Formula One World Championship is held at 2025 Japanese Grand Prix
- May 17–18 – 2024–25 Formula E World Championship is held at 2025 Tokyo ePrix
- September 28 – 2025 MotoGP World Championship is held at 2025 Japanese motorcycle Grand Prix
- 2025 F4 Japanese Championship
- 2025 Super Formula Championship
- 2025 Super Formula Lights
- 2025 Super GT Series
- 2025 in Japanese football
- 2025 J1 League
- 2025 J2 League
- 2025 J3 League
- 2025 Japan Football League
- 2025 Japanese Regional Leagues
- 2025 Japanese Super Cup
- 2025 Emperor's Cup
- 2025 J.League Cup
Deaths
[edit]January
[edit]- January 1:
- January 3:
- January 4:
- January 9 - MAYA MAXX, painter (b. 1961)[12]
- January 16 - Shoji Ueda, cinematographer (b. 1938)[13]
- January 21 - Keiichi Suzuki, speed skater (b. 1942)[14]
- January 25 - Ikujiro Nonaka, theorist and academician (b. 1935)[15]
- January 28 - Takuro Morinaga, economist (b. 1957)
See also
[edit]Country overviews
[edit]Related timelines for current period
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Tita, Bob; Lucey, Catherine (January 3, 2025). "Biden Blocks Sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved January 11, 2025.
- ^ "8 students injured in hammer attack at univ. campus in Tokyo suburbs". Kyodo News. January 10, 2025. Retrieved January 10, 2025.
- ^ "1 person is killed and 2 injured in stabbing outside Nagano station in central Japan". AP News. January 23, 2025. Retrieved January 23, 2025.
- ^ "Executives at Japan`s Fuji TV and parent firm resign over a sex scandal linked to a former star". AP News. January 27, 2025. Retrieved January 27, 2025.
- ^ "Osaka Is World Expo 2025 Host". Japan Forward. November 23, 2018. Archived from the original on March 17, 2019. Retrieved November 23, 2018.
- ^ "帝拳ジムを支えたマネジャー長野ハルさんが死去 老衰のため９９歳で". スポーツ報知. January 5, 2025. Retrieved January 5, 2025.
- ^ "【訃報】ひめゆり同窓会前会長 玉城節子さん死去 全学徒の会活動にも尽力". OKITIVE (in Japanese). January 7, 2025. Retrieved January 7, 2025.
- ^ "建築家の原広司さん死去、８８歳…ＪＲ京都駅ビルや梅田スカイビルを手がける". 読売新聞オンライン (in Japanese). January 4, 2025. Retrieved January 4, 2025.
- ^ 政治家情報 〜沢 雄二〜. JANJAN ザ･選挙 (in Japanese). Retrieved November 12, 2007.
- ^ 松本, 光央 (January 4, 2025). "ラッコのリロ、死ぬ 17歳 国内で飼育中のラッコは2頭に 福岡" (in Japanese). Mainichi Shimbun.
- ^ "水泳飛び込みで五輪3度出場、馬淵かの子さん死去 寺内健さん、玉井陸斗ら指導". 神戸新聞NEXT (in Japanese). January 10, 2025. Retrieved January 10, 2025.
- ^ "岩見沢在住・画家マヤさん死去 芸術通じ美流渡振興 催し企画や企業看板制作". 北海道新聞. January 10, 2025. Retrieved January 10, 2025.
- ^ 上田正治さん死去 映画撮影監督 (in Japanese)
- ^ スケートの鈴木恵一さん死去 500m元世界記録保持者. nordot.app (in Japanese). January 21, 2025. Retrieved January 21, 2025.
- ^ "野中郁次郎氏が死去 知識経営の権威、「失敗の本質」". 日本経済新聞 (in Japanese). January 26, 2025. Retrieved January 26, 2025.
External links
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