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March 16: The Shimane Prefecture assembly declares
"Takeshima Day" to commemorate the centennial anniversary of
Japan's claim to Liancourt Rocks (known as
Takeshima in Japan, and Dokdo in Korea), starting
a wave of protests in South Korea.
August 8: Postal service privatization, the keystone of Prime
Minister Koizumi's platform, is voted down in the House of
Councillors. Later in the day, Koizumi announces the dissolution of
the House of Representatives and snap elections to be held the
following month.
September 21: Koizumi is re-elected as prime minister at an
extraordinary session of the Diet.
September 25: Expo 2005 ends.
October 14: The Postal Privatization Bill enters the Diet.
October 31: Koizumi reshuffles his cabinet, naming Shinzo
Abe as Chief Cabinet Secretary, Heizo Takenaka as
Minister of Internal Affairs and Taro Aso as Minister of Foreign Affairs.
November 15: Princess Sayako marries commoner Yoshiki
Kuroda, thus giving up her imperial title.
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