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Japan in 1968

Historical records for Japan in 1968, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.

10Records
6Events
3Named people
3Places
3Categories

Historical records

May

May 1968Beatles, TheYoko Ono

Arts / Popular Music

John Lennon and Yoko Ono exhibit their first official joint venture at the Arts Lab in London. Soon after, they plant acorns outside Coventry Cathedral as a conceptual "living arts sculpture"

June

26 June 1968Rule of BoninEisaku Sato

Bonin · Government / Liberal-Democratic Party Government

Iwo Jima and the Bonin Islands are returned to Japan by the USA

26 June 1968Rule of Iwo JimaEisaku Sato

Iwo Jima · Government / Liberal-Democratic Party Government

Iwo Jima and the Bonin Islands are returned to Japan by the USA

July

July 1968Beatles, TheYoko Ono

Arts / Popular Music

John Lennon moves out of his house in Weybridge, he and Yoko Ono move into Ringo Starrs apartment in Montague Square

Other Events

1968Beatles, TheYoko Ono

Arts / Popular Music

John Lennon moves out of his house in Weybridge, he and Yoko Ono move into Ringo Starrs apartment in Montague Square. John Lennon and Yoko Ono exhibit their first official joint venture at the Arts Lab in London.

1968Beatles, TheYoko Ono

Arts / Popular Music

Lennon releases "Unfinished Music No 2 - Life With The Lions", one side consists of John Lennon and Yoko Ono calling out to each other during her stay in a London hospital while pregnant

1968Beatles, TheYoko Ono

Arts / Popular Music

Soon after, they plant acorns outside Coventry Cathedral as a conceptual "living arts sculpture". Lennons solo career begins with Unfinished Music No 1 - Two Virgins, the sleeve depicts him and Ono standing naked.

1968Nobel PrizeYasunari Kawabata

Arts / Literature

Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature

1968Plastic Ono BandYoko Ono

Arts / Popular Music

John Lennon begins his personal and artistic relationship with Yoko Ono by collaborating on the experimental album Unfinished Music No.1: Two Virgins

1968Rule of VolcanoEisaku Sato

Volcano · Government / Liberal-Democratic Party Government

Japan regains the Volcano Islands

Names involved

Eisaku SatoYasunari KawabataYoko Ono

Places involved

BoninIwo JimaVolcano

Provenance

This page is generated from stored World History Database records matching the exact country and year shown above. Exact duplicate display records are collapsed. Records without a month are listed after the monthly sections. Source provenance varies by record; formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.