Events in 1963 in Japanese television.

Events

*January 1: Mighty Atom, the first half-hour anime series on Japanese television, premieres on

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, and remains on the air for four consecutive years. *January 16: Yujiro Ishihara (actor/singer), who was a signboard actor of

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, founded an entertainment office, Ishihara Promotion (dissolved in 2021). *January 21: Nippon Television premieres Kewpie 3-Minute Cooking (still on air as of 2021). *February 10: With the creation of Kitakyushu City, the former NHK Kokura Station is renamed NHK Kitakyushu Station. *April 1: Fukushima Television started broadcasting as the second-to-last VHF television station in the country. *September 4: Fuji TV begins airing Japan's first late-night anime,

Sennin Buraku is a manga series by Kō Kojima which ran in the adult magazine ''Weekly Asahi Geinō'', published by Tokuma Shoten in Japan. It is the longest running comic with only one artist, being published weekly since October 1956, and the longest-r ...

. *October 10: NHK General converts to color in Tokushima. *November 23: In the wake of news of the assassination of American president John F. Kennedy, a satellite test between Japan and the USA was conducted using artificial satellites. *December 16: NHK General converts to color in Kofu, Nagano, Niigata, Shizuoka, Nagoya and Oita.

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