2011 in Japan

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2011
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Japan

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This article lists events in 2011 in Japan.

Incumbents[edit]

Governors[edit]

Events[edit]

January[edit]

February[edit]

March[edit]

May[edit]

  • May 4 – Osaka Station City, the largest enclosed shopping mall in Japan, including a cinema complex, a department store, and commercial facilities, opens in Osaka.[citation needed]
  • May 10 – GoExPanda becomes Mascot of TV Asahi in Tokyo.
  • May 12 – Worst heist in Japan: 604-million-yen robbery, in which a 36-year-old security company's workers are injured in Tachikawa, Tokyo. Six men are arrested on suspicion the heist on July 31.

July[edit]

August[edit]

September[edit]

October[edit]

  • October 26 – Tsuyoshi Kikukawa resigns as the President and Chairman of Olympus Corporation, as financial and law enforcement bodies in Japan, the United States and the United Kingdom investigate the optical equipment company's acquisitions in recent years.[15]

December[edit]

Other events[edit]

Deaths[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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