2008 in Japan

2008 is the 20th year of Heisei in Japan.

[edit] Incumbents

• Prime Minister: Yasuo Fukuda

[edit] Events

• January 31 - Nine people are hospitalized after eating gyōza made at the Tianyang Food Plant in China. ^[1]
• February 11 - Okinawa police arrest United States Marine Tyrone Hadnott and charge him with raping a middle-school girl.^[2]
• February 19 - Kei Nishikori wins an ATP title. At age 18, he is the youngest player to win the title after Lleyton Hewitt won it at age 16 in 1998.^[3]
• February 19 - A Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer Atago runs over a fish boat Seitoku Maru at 4.07 am off the coast of Chiba Prefecture.^[4]
• February 22 - The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force resumes fueling warships from the United States and its allies.^[5]
• February 22 - Kazuyoshi Miura is arrested in Saipan on suspicion of involvement with the murder of his wife in 1981.^[6]
• February 25 - The Supreme Court upheld life sentence of Daisuke Mori.^[7]
• June 8 - The Akihabara massacre takes place in Tokyo. A man kills seven in an attack on a crowd using a truck and a dagger.^[8]
• June 14 - the 2008 Iwate earthquake strikes northern Honshū, leaving two dead and hundreds injured.^[9]
• June 17 - Serial killer Tsutomu Miyazaki is executed by hanging.^[10]
• July 7 - July 9 - G8 is hosted by Japan.

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