2024 in Japan
Events in the year 2024 in Japan. == Incumbents == Emperor: Naruhito Prime Minister Fumio Kishida (Liberal Democratic) (until 1 October) Shigeru Ishiba (Liberal Democratic) (starting 1 October) Chief Cabinet Secretary: Yoshimasa Hayashi (Liberal Democratic) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Saburo Tokura (until 16 August) Yukihiko Imasaki (starting 16 August) Speaker of the House of Representatives: Fukushiro Nukaga (Liberal Democratic) President of the House of Councillors Hidehisa Otsuji (Liberal Democratic) (until 11 November) Masakazu Sekiguchi (Liberal Democratic) (starting 11 November) === Governors === Aichi Prefecture: Hideaki Omura Akita Prefecture: Norihisa Satake Aomori Prefecture: Sōichirō Miyashita Chiba Prefecture: Toshihito Kumagai Ehime Prefecture: Tokihiro Nakamura Fukui Prefecture: Tatsuji Sugimoto Fukuoka Prefecture: Seitaro Hattori Fukushima Prefecture: Masao Uchibori Gifu Prefecture: Hajime Furuta Gunma Prefecture: Ichita Yamamoto Hiroshima Prefecture: Hidehiko Yuzaki Hokkaido: Naomichi Suzuki Hyōgo Prefecture: Motohiko Saitō Ibaraki Prefecture: Kazuhiko Ōigawa Ishikawa: Masanori Tanimoto Iwate Prefecture: Takuya Tasso Kagawa Prefecture: Keizō Hamada Kagoshima Prefecture: Kōichi Shiota Kanagawa Prefecture: Yuji Kuroiwa Kumamoto Prefecture: Ikuo Kabashima Kochi Prefecture: Seiji Hamada Kyoto Prefecture: Takatoshi Nishiwaki Mie Prefecture: Eikei Suzuki Miyagi Prefecture: Yoshihiro Murai Miyazaki Prefecture: Shunji Kōno Nagano Prefecture: Shuichi Abe Nagasaki Prefecture: Hōdō Nakamura Nara Prefecture: Makoto Yamashita Niigata Prefecture: Hideyo Hanazumi Oita Prefecture: Kiichiro Sato Okayama Prefecture: Ryuta Ibaragi Okinawa Prefecture: Denny Tamaki Osaka Prefecture: Hirofumi Yoshimura Saga Prefecture: Yoshinori Yamaguchi Saitama Prefecture: Motohiro Ōno Shiga Prefecture: Taizō Mikazuki Shimame Prefecture: Tatsuya Maruyama Shizuoka Prefecture: Yasutomo Suzuki Tochigi Prefecture: Tomikazu Fukuda Tokushima Prefecture: Masazumi Gotoda Tokyo Prefecture: Yuriko Koike Tottori Prefecture: Shinji Hirai Toyama Prefecture: Hachiro Nitta Wakayama Prefecture: Shūhei Kishimoto Yamagata Prefecture: Mieko Yoshimura Yamaguchi Prefecture: Tsugumasa Muraoka Yamanashi Prefecture: Kotaro Nagasaki == Arts and entertainment == 2024 in anime 2024 in Japanese music 2024 in Japanese television List of 2024 box office number-one films in Japan List of Japanese films of 2024 == Events == === January === January 1 – Six wards in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, including Naka-ku, Minami-ku, Higashi-ku, Nishi-ku, and Kita-ku, are disestablished and replaced by two new wards, namely Hamana-ku and Chūō-ku.