2011 in Japan

2011
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This article lists events in 2011 in Japan.

Incumbents

Events

January

February

  • February 6 – The Japan Sumo Association cancels the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament in light of a match fixing scandal, the first time the event has been canceled since 1946.[4][5]
  • February 26 – Nintendo's first 3D portable game console "Nintendo 3DS" is released in Japan.[6]

March

May

  • May 4 – Osaka Station City, the largest enclosed shopping mall in Japan, including a cinema complex, a department store, and commercial facilities, opens in Osaka.
  • May 10 – GoExPanda becomes Mascot of TV Asahi in Tokyo.
  • May 12 – Worst heist in Japan: 604-million-yen robbery, in which a 36-year-old security company's workers are injured in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Six men are arrested on suspicion the heist on July 31.

July

August

September

October

  • October 26 – Tsuyoshi Kikukawa resigns as the President and Chairman of Olympus Corporation, as financial and law enforcement bodies in Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom investigate the optical equipment company's acquisitions in recent years.[15]

December

Other events

  • Prefectural and selected municipal elections in major cities:
    • January 30 – 2011 Yamanashi gubernatorial election
    • February 6 – Triple election in Nagoya, Aichi: 2011 Aichi gubernatorial election, 2011 Nagoya mayoral election and Nagoya city council recall referendum.
    • March 13 – 2011 Nagoya city council election
    • April 10 and 24 – 2011 Japanese unified regional elections (12 governors, 41 parliaments, mayors and councils in several hundred municipalities)
    • June 5 – 2011 Aomori gubernatorial election
    • July 3 – 2011 Gunma gubernatorial election
    • July 31 – 2011 Saitama gubernatorial election
    • August 28 – 2011 Sendai city council election (originally scheduled for the unified elections but postponed following the Tōhoku earthquake)
    • September 11 -2011 Iwate gubernatorial election and 2011 Iwate prefectural election (originally scheduled for the unified elections but postponed following the Tōhoku earthquake).
    • November 13 – 2011 Miyagi prefectural election (originally scheduled for the unified elections but postponed following the Tōhoku earthquake): the LDP loses some seats, but remains strongest party with 28 of the 59 assembly seats.
    • November 20 – 2011 Fukushima prefectural election (originally scheduled for the unified elections but postponed following the Tōhoku earthquake): With many voters displaced by earthquake, tsunami and nuclear accidents, turnout reaches a historical low at 47.5 percent; the LDP gains one seat and now holds 27 of the 58 assembly seats.
    • November 27 – 2011 Kōchi gubernatorial election (uncontested): With explicit or implicit support of all established parties including the Communists, governor Masanao Ozaki is reelected without vote for a second term – the first uncontested gubernatorial election since Yoshihiro Katayama's reelection in Tottori in 2003.
    • November 27 – Double election in Osaka: Major issue of both the 2011 Osaka gubernatorial election and the 2011 Osaka city mayoral election were resigned governor and mayoral candidate Tōru Hashimoto's Osaka Metropolis plan to dissolve the cities of Osaka and Sakai and reorganize them like Tokyo's wards as special wards of Osaka prefecture. Incumbent Osaka city mayor Kunio Hiramatsu was opposed to the plan and was supported by both major parties; even the JCP nominated no candidate for Osaka mayor for the first time since 1963 to support his reelection. Despite support from all established parties and all other candidates dropping out of the race, Hiramatsu lost the mayoral election to Hashimoto by a wide margin; and Hashimoto's candidate for governor, Ichirō Matsui comfortably won the gubernatorial race against Kaoru Kurata (both major parties), one Communist and several minor independent candidates (including perennial candidate Mac Akasaka).[16][17][18][19]

Deaths

See also

References

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  5. (BBC)
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  7. (Wall Street Journal)
  8. (Xinhua)
  9. (Canadian Press via Google News)
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  15. Dvorak, Phred; Osawa, Juro (October 27, 2011). "Olympus Defends Deals; Chairman Resigns". The Wall Street Journal.
  16. The Japan Times, October 22, 2011: Hashimoto, Osaka face watershed poll. Unprecedented double vote for governor, mayor tough to predict
  17. The Japan Times, November 10, 2011: 'Second Osaka Castle battle' campaign starts
  18. The Japan Times, November 15, 2011: Shape of Osaka takes center stage in election
  19. The Japan Times, November 28, 2011: Maverick pair claim mandate to unify city, prefecture. Hashimoto, Matsui win twin Osaka polls
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  24. 時事ドットコム
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