2014 in Japan
Events in the year 2014 in Japan. == Incumbents == Emperor: Akihito Prime Minister: Shinzō Abe (L–Yamaguchi) Chief Cabinet Secretary: Yoshihide Suga (L–Kanagawa) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Hironobu Takesaki until March 31, Itsurō Terada from April 1 President of the House of Representatives: Bunmei Ibuki (L–Kyōto) until November 21, Nobutaka Machimura (L–Hokkaidō) from December 24 President of the House of Councillors: Masaaki Yamazaki (L–Fukui) Diet sessions: 186th (regular, January 26 to June 22), 187th (extraordinary, September 29 to November 21), 188th (special, December 24 to 26) === Governors === Aichi Prefecture: Hideaki Omura Akita Prefecture: Norihisa Satake Aomori Prefecture: Shingo Mimura Chiba Prefecture: Kensaku Morita Ehime Prefecture: Tokihiro Nakamura Fukui Prefecture: Issei Nishikawa Fukuoka Prefecture: Hiroshi Ogawa Fukushima Prefecture: Yūhei Satō (until 11 November); Masao Uchibori (starting 11 November) Gifu Prefecture: Hajime Furuta Gunma Prefecture: Masaaki Osawa Hiroshima Prefecture: Hidehiko Yuzaki Hokkaido: Harumi Takahashi Hyogo Prefecture: Toshizō Ido Ibaraki: Masaru Hashimoto Ishikawa: Masanori Tanimoto Iwate Prefecture: Takuya Tasso Kagawa Prefecture: Keizō Hamada Kagoshima Prefecture: Satoshi Mitazono Kanagawa Prefecture: Yuji Kuroiwa Kochi Prefecture: Masanao Ozaki Kumamoto Prefecture: Ikuo Kabashima Kyoto Prefecture: Keiji Yamada Mie Prefecture: Eikei Suzuki Miyagi Prefecture: Yoshihiro Murai Miyazaki Prefecture: Shunji Kōno Nagano Prefecture: Shuichi Abe Nagasaki Prefecture: Hōdō Nakamura Nara Prefecture: Shōgo Arai Niigata Prefecture: Hirohiko Izumida Oita Prefecture: Katsusada Hirose Okayama Prefecture: Ryuta Ibaragi Okinawa Prefecture: Hirokazu Nakaima (until 9 December); Takeshi Onaga (starting 10 December) Osaka Prefecture: Ichirō Matsui Saga Prefecture: Yasushi Furukawa (until 25 November); Hiroki Sakai (starting 25 November) Saitama Prefecture: Kiyoshi Ueda Shiga Prefecture: Yukiko Kada (until 20 July); Taizō Mikazuki (starting 20 July) Shiname Prefecture: Zenbe Mizoguchi Shizuoka Prefecture: Heita Kawakatsu Tochigi Prefecture: Tomikazu Fukuda Tokushima Prefecture: Kamon Iizumi Tokyo: Tatsumi Ando (until 25 February); Yōichi Masuzoe (starting 25 February) Tottori Prefecture: Shinji Hirai Toyama Prefecture: Takakazu Ishii Wakayama Prefecture: Yoshinobu Nisaka Yamagata Prefecture: Mieko Yoshimura Yamaguchi Prefecture: Tsugumasa Muraoka Yamanashi Prefecture: Shōmei Yokouchi == Events == === Electoral calendar === National elections (if necessary) April and October: By-elections to both houses of the National Diet 2014 Japanese general election Prefectural elections (gubernatorial and general assembly elections only, not including assembly by-elections) February 2: Nagasaki gubernatorial February 9: Tokyo gubernatorial February 23: Yamaguchi gubernatorial March 16: Ishikawa gubernatorial April 6: Kyoto gubernatorial in or before July (expires July 19): Shiga gubernatorial in or before August (expires August 31): Nagano gubernatorial in or before September (expires September 4): Kagawa gubernatorial in or before November (expires November 11): Fukushima gubernatorial in or before November (expires November 30): Ehime gubernatorial in or before December (expires December 9): Okinawa gubernatorial in or before December (expires December 16): Wakayama gubernatorial in or before January 2015 (expires January 7, 2015; previous election in December 2010): Ibaraki assembly in or before January 2015 (expires January 20, 2015; previous election in December 2010): Miyazaki gubernatorial Municipal elections in designated major cities and special wards (not including assembly by-elections) June 8: Nakano City mayoral in or before July (expires July 10): Suginami City mayoral in or before October (expires October 7): Shinagawa City mayoral in or before November (expires November 23): Shinjuku City mayoral in or before November (expires November 17): Niigata City mayoral in or before November (expires December 2): Kumamoto City mayoral in or before December (expires December 6): Fukuoka City mayoral Additional early elections may be caused by resignations, deaths, recalls, no-confidence votes, etc.