2010 in Japan

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2010
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Events in the year 2010 in Japan.

Incumbents

Governors

Events

The launch of the venus probe Akatsuki, 20 May 2010

Prefectural elections

  • February 21 – In the 2010 Nagasaki gubernatorial election former vice governor Hōdō Nakamura is elected as successor of retiring incumbent Genjirō Kaneko.
  • March 14 – Governor Masanori Tanimoto of Ishikawa is reelected for a fifth term.
  • April 11 – 2010 Kyōto gubernatorial election: Incumbent Keiji Yamada wins a third term with support from both major parties.
  • July 11 – In the 2010 Shiga gubernatorial election, center-left supported governor Yukiko Kada is reelected against LDP supported former national representative Ken'ichirō Ueno and a Communist candidate.
  • August 8 – 2010 Nagano gubernatorial election: Supported by the center-left parties, Shuichi Abe, formerly vice governor under polarising governor Yasuo Tanaka, narrowly beats LDP supported outgoing vice governor Yoshimasa Koshihara by 5.000 votes to succeed retiring incumbent Jin Murai who had defeated Tanaka in 2006.
  • August 29 – 2010 Kagawa gubernatorial election: With broad support from the non-Communist parties Keizō Hamada is elected to succeed governor Takeki Manabe who retired after three terms.
  • October 31 – Governor Yūhei Satō of Fukushima is reelected against only one Communist challenger.
  • November 28 – 2010 Wakayama gubernatorial election: Incumbent Yoshinobu Nisaka is reelected with centre-right support; 2010 Ehime gubernatorial election: Tokihiro Nakamura is elected to succeed retiring governor Moriyuki Kato; 2010 Okinawan gubernatorial election: Governor Hirokazu Nakaima defeats anti-USMC-base candidate Yōichi Iha.
  • December 12 – 2010 Ibaraki prefectural election: With 39 percent of the vote, the LDP wins 33 of 65 seats and defends its majority.
  • December 26 – In the 2010 Miyazaki gubernatorial election, vice governor Shunji Kōno wins a clear victory; incumbent comedian and former governor Hideo Higashikokubaru had retired after only one term in office.

The Nobel Prize

Deaths

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

October

  • October 7 - Keiji Ohsawa, Japanese baseball player (born 1932)
  • October 8 - Ryō Ikebe, Japanese actor (born 1918)
  • October 29 - Takeshi Shudo, Japanese scriptwriter (born 1949)

December

See also


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