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- Marxist economist Minobe Ryokichi elected Tokyo Governor.
- Japan becomes largest producer of television sets.
- ‘Pollution Countermeasures Basic Law’ enacted.
- 1.5 million people gather nationwide on ’10.21 Antiwar Day’.
- USA returns documentary films of A-bombs to Japan.
- Akasegawa Genpei found guilty in case brought against him for his
work Model 1,000-Yen Note Incident.
- Azuma Takamitsu’s ‘Tower House’ completed.
- Imperial Hotel demolished.
- Angura Theatre Troupe Tenjo Sajiki founded. First ‘Red Tent’
production by the Situation Theatre.
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- Over 100 universities nationwide experience campus conflicts that
evolve into a broader based ‘Student Movement’ with anti-establishment
agendas. 734 students and activists arrested in Shinjuku on ’10.21
Antiwar Day’.
- USA returns Ogasawara Islands (Tokyo Prefecture) to Japan.
- Japan’s GNP ranks second the USA in the Western bloc.
- Sekine Nobuo’s work Phase:Earth launches Mono-ha Movement.
- Exhibition 100 Years of Photography surveys history of Japanese
photography organised by Japan Photographers Association at the Seibu
department store.
- First issue of Provoke issued.
- Tokyo’s first skyscraper, Kasumigaseki Building, completed.
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- Traffic accidents cause around 1,000 deaths a month.
- Army veteran attacks Emperor Showa (Hirohito)
- 8,500 riot police mobilised to recapture the student-occupied Yasuda
lecture hall at University of Tokyo.
- Police outlaw ‘Folk Guerilla’ concerts outside Shinjuku
station.
- Diet passes ‘University Administration Measures Law’ to
crack down on the student movement.
- 1,505 students and activists arrested on ’10.21 Antiwar Day’.
- Japan’s first ATM machines installed in Shinjuku.
- National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, moves to new building designed
by Taniguchi Yoshiro.
- Bikyoto (Artists Joint Struggle Council) founded.
- Nissenbi’s annual poster competition and Film Art Festival
Tokyo ’69 (Sogetsu Art Centre) disrupted by radical students
and practitioners.
- Secon and third issues of Provoke published.
- Isozaki Arata’s ‘The Dismantling of Architecture’ published
in Bijutsu Techo magazine (- 1973).
- First phase of Maki Fumihiko’s Hillside Terrace completed.
- Tenjo Sajiki opens ‘Tenjo Sajiki-Kan’ Theatre in Shibuya.
- Theater Center 68/69 founded.
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- Expo ’70 held in Osaka. 64 million visitors recorded.
- Japan Red Army hijacks Japan Airlines’ Yodo Plane.
- USA returns 155 war paintings to Japan.
- 770,000 peacefully demonstrate nationwide against the automatic extension
of Anpo.
- First photo-chemical smog hits Tokyo. 5,208 victims reported.
- Women’s Lib activists march on ’10.21 Antiwar Day’.
- Novelist Mishima Yukio kills himself after a failed coup.
- Tokyo Biennale ’70: Between Man and Matter, Tokyo Metropolitan
Art Museum.
- Nissenbi (Japan Advertising Artists Club) disbanded.
- August 1970, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, gathers
13 mono-oriented artists.
- Provoke’s ‘First Abandon the World of Certainty’
published.
- First ‘Black Tent’ production by Theater Center 68/70.
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- First residents move into Tama New Town.
- ‘Dollar Shock’. Fixed dollar-yen exchange rate ends.
- Emperor Showa visits Europe.
- Bikyoto Revolution Committee I founded, organising a series of members’
exhibitions outside the museum/gallery space.
- Keio Plaza Hotel completed in Shinjuku, Tokyo’s sub-centre.
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- United Red Army has confrontation with police forces in ‘Mount
Asama Villa Incident’.
- USA returns Okinawa to Japan.
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- Mercury and PCB pollution of fish becomes serious.
- Middle East conflict leads to ‘Oil Shock’ in Japan. Electricity
rationed and ‘Crazy Prices’ triggered.
- Yoko Ono publishes ‘Japanese Men Sinking’ in a women’s
magazine.
- Kusama Yayoi returns to Tokyo from New York.
- Bikyoto Revolution Committee II founded.
- Sekine Nobuo founds Environmental Art studio.
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