1962 in Japan
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Events in the year 1962 in Japan.
Incumbents
- Emperor: Hirohito
- Prime minister: Hayato Ikeda (Liberal Democratic)
- Chief Cabinet Secretary: Masayoshi Ōhira until July 18, Yasumi Kurogane
- Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Kisaburo Yokota
- President of the House of Representatives: Ichirō Kiyose
- President of the House of Councillors: Tsuruhei Matsuno until August 6, Yūzō Shigemune
Events
- May 3 - Mikawashima train crash - A freight train and two passenger trains collide near Mikawashima Station in Arakawa, Tokyo, resulting in 160 deaths.
- May 17 - Dainippon Sumitomo Pharma halts the sale of the drug Thalidomide.
- November 9 - An All Nippon Airways Vickers Viscount plane crashes in Aichi Prefecture while en route to Nagoya Airport, killing all 4 occupants of the aircraft.
- November 18 - Two tankers, the smaller Munakata Maru 1 owned by Idemitsu Kosan and the larger Thrard Brovig, collide in the Keihin canal in Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture, causing the deaths of 40 crew members from both ships.
Births
- January 20
- IKKO, make-up artist
- Sakiko Tamagawa, voice actress
- February 1 - Takashi Murakami, pop artist
- March 10 - Seiko Matsuda, pop singer/songwriter
- April 12 - Nobuhiko Takada, mixed martial arts fighter and professional wrestler
- May 5 - Kaoru Wada, composer
- May 31 - Noriko Hidaka, voice actress
- June 11 - Toshihiko Seki, voice actor
- June 18 - Mitsuharu Misawa, professional wrestler
- July 19 - Aya Kitō, writer (d. 1988)
- August 8 - Yūji Machi, voice actor
- August 21 - Tsutomu Miyazaki, serial killer (d. 2008)
- September 4 - Shinya Yamanaka, physician and researcher
- September 13 - Hisao Egawa, voice actor
- October 21 - Miki Itō, voice actress
- October 27 - Jun'ichi Kanemaru, voice actor
- November 14 - Atsuko Tanaka, voice actress
- November 27 - Marumi Shiraishi, actress
- December 1 - Shozo Hayashiya IX, rakugoka, tarento and voice actor
- December 23 - Keiji Mutoh, professional wrestler
Deaths
- October 21 - Kinnosuke Ogura, mathematician, historian of mathematics (b. 1885)