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| Film Inagaki Inagaki, Hiroshi |  |
| Hiroshi Inagaki wins an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for Part I of his Samurai Trilogy |
| Film Kurosawa Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Kurosawa's I Live in Fear |
| Liberal Dem Party Hatoyama, Ichiro | |
| 15th Nov Tokyo The Liberal Party & the Japan Democratic Party form the Liberal Democratic Party |
| President Hatoyama, Ichiro | |
| 19th Mar Tokyo Appointed President of Japan, 2nd term |
| Prime Minister Hatoyama, Ichiro | |
| 22nd Nov Tokyo Appointed Prime Minister of Japan, 3rd term |
| Publication of Suzuki Suzuki, Daisetsu Teitaro | |
| Publication of, "Studies in Zen" |
| Silver Lion Kurosawa Kurosawa, Akira | |
| Awarded the Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival for Seven Samurai |
