* 1954 – Susumu Hirasawa, Japanese musician ( P-Model )

* 1954 – Hideshi Matsuda, Japanese racing driver

In 1954, the 23 man crew of the Japanese fishing vessel Lucky Dragon was exposed to radioactive fallout from a hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll, in 1969, an ecologically catastrophic oil spill from an offshore well in California's Santa Barbara Channel, Barry Commoner's protest against nuclear testing, Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring, Paul R. Ehrlich's The Population Bomb all added anxiety about the environment.

During Japanese cinema's ' Golden Age ' of the 1950s, successful films included Rashomon ( 1950 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and The Hidden Fortress ( 1958 ) by Akira Kurosawa, as well as Yasujirō Ozu's Tokyo Story ( 1953 ) and Ishirō Honda's Godzilla ( 1954 ).

Gate of Hell, a 1953 film by Teinosuke Kinugasa, was the first movie that filmed using Eastmancolor film, Gate of Hell was both Daiei's first color film and the first Japanese color movie to be released outside of Japan, receiving an Oscar in 1954 for Best Costume Design by Sanzo Wada and an Honorary Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

* 1954 – Noriyuki Asakura, Japanese composer

* 1858 – Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farmer ( d. 1954 )

* 1954 – Jōkō Ninomiya, Japanese martial artist

* 1954 – Yuji Horii, Japanese video game designer

In 1954 Japanese peace movements converged to form a unified " Japanese Council Against Atomic and Hydrogen Bombs ".

* 1954 – Shinzō Abe, Japanese politician, 90th Prime Minister of Japan

* 1954 – Mikimoto Kōkichi, Japanese businessman ( b. 1858 )

* 1954 – Takao Doi, Japanese astronaut

is a 1954 Japanese adventure drama film co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa.

It is a western-style remake based on Akira Kurosawa's 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai.

* January 30 – Kamiyama Sojin, Japanese actor in American silent films, ( d. 1954 )

* March 10 – Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farm pioneer ( d. 1954 )

In 1954, the 23 man crew of the Japanese fishing vessel Lucky Dragon 5 was exposed to radioactive fallout from a hydrogen bomb test at Bikini Atoll.

In Japan, PCBs were first produced by Kanegafuchi Chemical Co. Ltd. ( Kaneka ) in 1954 and production continued until 1972 when the Japanese government banned the production, use, and import of PCBs.

Japanese ownership was the majority in the beginning, however, to reduce problem gambling in 1954, automatic fire pachinko machines were banned, causing most Japanese manufacturers to leave the market to Zainichi Koreans, a high ratio that remains to this day.

Toshiba is responsible for a number of Japanese firsts, including radar ( 1942 ), the TAC digital computer ( 1954 ), transistor television and microwave oven ( 1959 ), color video phone ( 1971 ), Japanese word processor ( 1978 ), MRI system ( 1982 ), laptop personal computer ( 1986 ), NAND EEPROM ( 1991 ), DVD ( 1995 ), the Libretto sub-notebook personal computer ( 1996 ) and HD DVD ( 2005 ).

Yamada Town was established on August 1, 1954 through the merger of town of Fuma with the villages of Yatsu and Yamakura.

The present edition of crystal data ( Af ), published in 1954 as Memoir 60 of the Geological Society of America, is now out of print.

* Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories ( short stories collected posthumously, also published as Miss Marple's Final Cases, but only six of the eight stories actually feature Miss Marple ) ( written between 1939 and 1954, published 1979 )

* 1954 – The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published.

* Aga Khan III, " Memoirs of Aga Khan: World Enough and Time ", London: Cassel & Company, 1954 ; published same year in the United States by Simon & Schuster.

* 1954 Quite Early One Morning ( Planned by Thomas, posthumously published ).

Greenberg is widely known for his development of a new classification system for the languages of Africa, which he published as a series of articles in the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology from 1949 to 1954 ( reprinted together as a book in 1955 ).

American writer Sylvia Wright coined the term in her essay " The Death of Lady Mondegreen ," published in Harper's Magazine in November 1954.

In a series of articles published between 1949 and 1954, he argued that Westermann's ' West Sudanic ' and Bantu formed a single genetic family, which he named Niger – Congo ; that Bantu constituted a subgroup of the Benue – Congo branch ; that Adamawa – Eastern, previously not considered to be related, was another member of this family ; and that Fula belonged to the West Atlantic languages.

This was the approach taken by the N. Bourbaki group in its Theory of Sets, published in 1954, long after Kuratowski discovered his reduction ( below ).

In 1954 China published maps showing substantial portions of Soviet Siberian territory as its own.

The exclusionary position of Kuhn and Benedict would be vindicated when André-Georges Haudricourt published on Vietnamese tonogenesis in 1954.

They took up the task of proving or disproving the existence of linguistic relativity experimentally and published their findings in 1954.

Gardner's Witchcraft Today was published in 1954.

The Thing # 12 ( Feb. 1954 ), Ditko's first published comic-book cover

In 1954, Zaehner published an article called The Menace of Mescaline, in which he asserted that " artificial interference with consciousness " could have nothing to do with the Christian " Beatific Vision ".

Written by Lewis between 1949 and 1954, illustrated by Pauline Baynes and originally published in London between October 1950 and March 1956, The Chronicles of Narnia has been adapted several times, complete or in part, for radio, television, the stage, and film.

The Magician's Nephew, the penultimate book to be published, but the last to be written, was completed in 1954.

Volumes 7 – 10, published in 1954, abandoned the religious message, and his popular audience slipped away, while scholars gleefully picked apart his mistakes.,

The most famous modern example of " hard " ( or anti -) primitivism in books and movies was William Golding's Lord of the Flies, published in 1954.

In 1954 he published a minor novel, Savage Holiday.

Wright's book on his journey, Black Power, was published in in 1954 ; its London publisher was Padmore's -- Dennis Dobson.

Some of the obiter dicta Whitehead spoke on these occasions were recorded by Lucien Price, a Boston journalist, who published them in 1954.

Story of O (, ) is an erotic novel published in 1954 about love, dominance and submission by French author Anne Desclos under the pen name Pauline Réage.

The novel, somewhat abridged, was originally serialised in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ( May, June, July 1954 ) as " Star Lummox " and then published in hardcover as part of Scribner's series of Heinlein juveniles.