Permanent year factsheet

Japan in 2021

Historical records for Japan in 2021, rendered directly from the World History Database and ordered by month, day and event.

5Records
5Events
5Named people
3Places
3Categories

Historical records

June

28 June 2021Electron-Capture Supernova EvidenceDaichi Hiramatsu

Science / Astronomy

Hiramatsu leads research using Hubble and other observations to identify strong evidence for an electron-capture supernova.

July

16 July 2021Celtic TransferKyogo Furuhashi

Glasgow · Sport / Football

Joins Celtic from Vissel Kobe and quickly becomes a leading goalscorer.

22 July 2021Venus Thermal TidesTakeshi Imamura

Venus · Science / Astronomy

Akatsuki infrared cloud tracking separates day and night circulation patterns and clarifies the role of thermal tides in Venus's atmosphere.

December

10 December 2021Nobel Prize in PhysicsSyukuro Manabe

Stockholm · Science / Physics

Is honoured for climate modelling that quantified variability and helped predict global warming.

Other Events

2021Mercury MagnetosphereGo Murakami

Science / Astronomy

The Mio spacecraft contributes measurements of Mercury's space environment during BepiColombo's first Mercury flyby.

Names involved

Daichi HiramatsuGo MurakamiKyogo FuruhashiSyukuro ManabeTakeshi Imamura

Places involved

GlasgowStockholmVenus

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varies by record; formal academic citation should be checked against the relevant primary source, archive or specialist historical reference.