Events in the year 2010 in Japan .
The launch of the venus probe Akatsuki , 20 May 2010
January 1 – The towns of Nijō and Shima merged with the city of Maebaru to form the city of Itoshima .
January 3 – Japan doubles a state-sponsored credit line to troubled airline Japan Airlines to ¥200bn (US$2.2bn).[ 2] [ 3]
January 6 – Japanese Finance Minister Hirohisa Fujii resigns at the age of 77 due to ill health.[ 4]
January 12 – A gunman kills three people at a bar in Habikino , Japan, before turning the gun on himself.
January 19 – Japanese air carrier Japan Airlines files for bankruptcy protection.[ 5]
February 1 – The town of Kozakai merged into the city of Toyokawa .
May 20 – JAXA successfully launched the venus probe Akatsuki (formerly "Planet-C").[ 6]
April 17 – Snowfall in central Tokyo matches a record set in April 1967.[ 7]
April 25 – Nearly 100,000 people rally in Okinawa , Japan, demanding the removal of an American base from the island.
June – September – According to Japanese government and Japan Meteorological Agency official confirmed report massive heat wave and extreme high temperature hit around Japan, total 1,731 person were human fatalities relative heat stroke .[citation needed ]
June 2 – Prime minister Yukio Hatoyama announced that he would be resigning as Prime Minister.
June 4 – Naoto Kan is elected as the leader of the Democratic Party and therefore as Prime Minister of Japan , defeating Shinji Tarutoko .
June 13 – The first Japanese asteroid probe, Hayabusa returned to Earth, after having landed on 25143 Itokawa in an effort to collect samples.[ 8]
July 11 – House of Councillors election
August 9 – Japan marks the 65th anniversary of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki .
September 11 – Jordan signs a nuclear co-operation treaty with Japan to build a nuclear power plant within 10 years.[citation needed ]
September 14 – Naoto Kan is reelected as the leader of the Democratic Party of Japan and therefore as Prime Minister of Japan , defeating powerbroker Ichiro Ozawa .[ 9] [ 10]
October 20 - Devastating floods and landslide in Amami Island , 3 people die.[ 11]
December 7 – The spacecraft Akatsuki reaches Venus but fails to enter orbit around the planet.
Prefectural elections [ edit ]
Takeo Kimura
Ryō Ikebe
April 3 – Yasunori Watanabe , Japanese rugby player (born 1974)[ 33]
April 4 – Shio Satō , Japanese manga artist (born 1952)[ 34]
April 6 – Katsumi Nishikawa , Japanese film director (born 1918)[ 35]
April 7 – Takuya Kimura , Japanese baseball player and coach (born 1972)[ 36]
April 9 – Hisashi Inoue , Japanese pacifist playwright (born 1934)[ 37]
April 10 – Hiro Muramoto , Japanese news cameraman and journalist (born 1966)[ 38]
April 20 – Mr. Hito , Japanese professional wrestler (born 1942)[ 39]
April 27 – Tanie Kitabayashi , Japanese actress (born 1911)
April 30 – Tadahiro Ando , Japanese politician , former Governor of Miyazaki Prefecture (born 1895)[ 40]
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