2003 in Japan Events in the year 2003 in Japan .Incumbents January January: Toyota launches all-new Avensis to be built in Britain. January 14: Koizumi visits the Yasukuni Shrine . January 27: All Nippon Airways Flight 908 overshoots the runway at Narita International Airport . January 29: Asashōryū Akinori becomes the first Mongol to reach the rank of yokozuna in sumo wrestling .March March 19: Extension of the Eidan Hanzomon Line from Suitengumae to Oshiage becomes operational. March 31: Agriculture Minister Tadamori Oshima resigns due to a farm subsidy scandal; Koizumi replaces him with Yoshiyuki Kamei .April April 1 *The Postal Agency becomes Japan Post , a public corporation. *Saitama becomes a city designated by government ordinance . *Square Co., Ltd. and Enix Corporation merge to become Square Enix . April 11: An explosion at a fireworks factory in Kagoshima kills 10. April 15: Tokyo Disneyland celebrates its 20th anniversary. April 25: Grand opening of Roppongi Hills .May May 9: The unmanned spacecraft Hayabusa is launched from Uchinoura Space Center .July July 7: Noto Airport opens. July 26: Diet of Japan authorizes the deployment of Japanese troops to Iraq .August August 10: Okinawa Urban Monorail opens.September September 20: Koizumi announces a new cabinet: Taro Aso becomes Minister of Internal Affairs , Shoichi Nakagawa becomes Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry , Sadakazu Tanigaki becomes Minister of Finance and Yuriko Koike becomes Minister of Environment . September 23: Nissan begins production at a plant in Canton, Mississippi, United States . September 26 * The Liberal Party merges into the Democratic Party of Japan . * 2003 Tokachi earthquake, a Richter magnitude scale 8.3 earthquake, following Richter magnitude scale 7.4 aftershock hit off south eastern Hokkaido , according to Japan Fire and Disaster and Management Agency official confirmed report, two persons lives with 849 person were wounded.October October 1: Shinagawa Station opens platforms for the Tōkaidō Shinkansen . October 10 *House of Representatives is dissolved. *The last wild crested ibis in Japan dies.November November 9: In the 2003 general election , the Democratic Party of Japan realizes a slight gain against the ruling Liberal Democratic Party .Births November 1: Kanon Kasuga , actressDeaths January 12: Kinji Fukasaku , film director February 28: Yō Inoue , voice actress March 25: Masato Furuoya , actor April 7: Masato Yamanouchi , voice actor April 8: Maki Ishii , composer April 17: Koji Kondo , football player April 20: Daijiro Kato , motorcycle racer May 1: Kenji Yoshida , animation film director and film producer July 8: Etsuko Inada , figure skater September 5: Yūji Aoki , manga artist October 11: Sadateru Arikawa , aikido teacher October 23: Hiroshi Yoshimura , musician November 1: Toshitaka Shimizu , voice actor November 13: Mitoyo Kawate , oldest person in the world December 26: Yoshio Shirai , boxer Undated: Masahiro Yoshimura , swimmer
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