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| 1968 |
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| Repeated demonstrations and clashes by students and other radical elements agitated against the renewal of the 1960 security treaty with the U.S. and against the visit to Japan by U.S. nuclear-powered or nuclear-equipped vessels. | 1 |
The novelist Kawabata Yasunari (1899–1972) was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature, the first East Asian author so acclaimed. He committed suicide in 1972. Other famed postwar novelists included Tanizaki Jun'ichir (1886–1965) whose career really dated to the prewar era, Mishima Yukio, Dazai Osamu, and Ariyoshi Sawako. The postwar years produced a spate of brilliant writers. | 2 |
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| 1969, Oct. 21 |
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| Anti-War Day was celebrated, marked by huge student disturbances and drastic police actions. | 3 |
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| Nov. 19–21 |
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| Prime Minister Sat visited the U.S. The “reversion” of Okinawa to Japan was promised for 1972; the U.S. base on the island would then have the same status as other U.S. bases in Japan. Nuclear weapons were to be removed before reversion, and the security treaty was to continue in effect indefinitely, subject to termination on one year's notice. | 4 |
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