1993 in Japan

none 1993 Japan Template:Year in Japan: Flag of Japan (1870–1999).svg 80px Other events of 1993 History of Japan Timeline Years Events in the year 1993 in Japan. It corresponds to Heisei 5 (平成5年)) in the Japanese calendar. Incumbents Emperor: AkihitoAkihito Biography, Reign, & Facts https://www.britannica.com/biography/Akihito Encyclopedia Britannica 27 March 2019 en Prime Minister: Kiichi Miyazawa (L–Hiroshima) until August 9, Hosokawa Morihiro (JNP–Kumamoto) Chief Cabinet Secretary: Yōhei Kōno (L–Kanagawa) until August 9, Masayoshi Takemura (NPH–Shiga) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Ryōhachi Kusaba President of the House of Representatives: Yoshio Sakurauchi (L–Shimane) until June 18, Takako Doi (S–Hyōgo) from August 6 President of the House of Councillors: Bunbē Hara (L–Tokyo) Diet sessions: 126th (regular, January 22 to June 18), 127th (special, August 5 to August 28), 128th (extraordinary, September 17 to 1994, January 29) Governors Aichi Prefecture: Reiji Suzuki Akita Prefecture: Kikuji Sasaki Aomori Prefecture: Masaya Kitamura Chiba Prefecture: Takeshi Numata Ehime Prefecture: Sadayuki Iga Fukui Prefecture: Yukio Kurita Fukuoka Prefecture: Hachiji Okuda Fukushima Prefecture: Eisaku Satō Gifu Prefecture: Taku Kajiwara Gunma Prefecture: Hiroyuki Kodera Hiroshima Prefecture: Toranosuke Takeshita (until 28 November); Yūzan Fujita (starting 29 November) Hokkaido: Takahiro Yokomichi Hyogo Prefecture: Toshitami Kaihara Ibaraki Prefecture: Fujio Takeuchi (until 11 August); Masaru Hashimoto (starting 26 September) Ishikawa Prefecture: Yōichi Nakanishi Iwate Prefecture: Iwao Kudō Kagawa Prefecture: Jōichi Hirai Kagoshima Prefecture: Yoshiteru Tsuchiya Kanagawa Prefecture: Kazuji Nagasu Kochi Prefecture: Daijiro Hashimoto Kumamoto Prefecture: Joji Fukushima Kyoto Prefecture: Teiichi Aramaki Mie Prefecture: Ryōzō Tagawa Miyagi Prefecture: Shuntarō Honma (until 4 October); Shirō Asano (starting 24 November) Miyazaki Prefecture: Suketaka Matsukata Nagano Prefecture: Gorō Yoshimura Nagasaki Prefecture: Isamu Takada Nara Prefecture: Yoshiya Kakimoto Niigata Prefecture: Ikuo Hirayama Oita Prefecture: Morihiko Hiramatsu Okayama Prefecture: Shiro Nagano Okinawa Prefecture: Masahide Ōta Osaka Prefecture: Kazuo Nakagawa Saga Prefecture: Isamu Imoto Saitama Prefecture: Yoshihiko Tsuchiya Shiga Prefecture: Minoru Inaba Shiname Prefecture: Nobuyoshi Sumita Shizuoka Prefecture: Shigeyoshi Saitō (until 23 June); Yoshinobu Ishikawa (starting 1 August) Tochigi Prefecture: Fumio Watanabe Tokushima Prefecture: Shinzo Miki (until 4 October); Toshio Endo (starting 4 October) Tokyo: Shun'ichi Suzuki Tottori Prefecture: Yuji Nishio Toyama Prefecture: Yutaka Nakaoki Wakayama Prefecture: Shirō Kariya Yamagata Prefecture: Seiichirō Itagaki (until 2 February); Kazuo Takahashi (starting 14 February) Yamaguchi Prefecture: Toru Hirai Yamanashi Prefecture: Ken Amano Events January 15: A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off the shore of Kushiro, Hokkaido; two people die and 966 are injured.:ja:釧路沖地震 (Japanese language) Retrieved on 28 November.October 2023 January 27: Sumo wrestler Akebono Tarō becomes the first non-Japanese participant to reach the rank of yokozuna. April 15: The 10th anniversary of the opening of Tokyo Disneyland. May 15: The J-League is established. June 9: Crown Prince Naruhito marries Masako Owada. June 22: New Party Sakigake breaks away from the Liberal Democratic Party. July 7 – July 9: The G7 summit is held in Tokyo. July 16: The Yokohama Landmark Tower, Japan's tallest building until the opening of the Abeno Harukas skyscraper, is completed. July 18: General elections for the House of Representatives of Japan are held. The Liberal Democratic Party fails to secure a majority. August 1 to 6: Torrential rain and a resultant debris flow occur in the Kagoshima area of Kyushu Island. According to the report by the Fire and Disaster Management Agency, 72 people died and 142 were injured.:ja:平成5年8月豪雨 (Japanese language) Retrieved on 28 November.October 2023 August 3: The Kono Statement is issued by the Japanese government. August 6: Hosokawa Morihiro is elected as the Prime Minister of Japan. A non-Liberal Democratic Party coalition government composed of seven parties is formed. October 5: An accident on the Nankō Port Town Line, an automated people mover in Osaka, injures 215 people at Suminoekōen Station.May 2022 Births right|thumb|150px|Sora Amamiya January 6 – Taku Yashiro, voice actor January 12 Aika Mitsui, singer Yu Inaba, actorhttp://www.townnews.co.jp/0303/2010/02/11/18238.html "「マルチ」をめざすスターの原石" Town News (February 11, 2010) 2015-06-12 2013-12-04 https://web.archive.org/web/20131204163825/http://www.townnews.co.jp/0303/2010/02/11/18238.html dead January 29 – Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, singer and model January 30 – Kodai Senga, professional baseball player February 11 – Takumi Ohshiro, professional baseball player February 13 – Kasumi Arimura, actress February 16 – Sōsuke Genda, professional baseball player February 20 – Nanami Hashimoto, idol singer, model, actress February 23 – Kasumi Ishikawa, table tennis player March 24 – Ryo Ryusei, actor April 1 – Keito Okamoto, singer April 11 – Yūji Takahashi, footballer April 26 – Kaoru Mitsumune, actress and model May 3 – Shuto Takajo, professional baseball player May 9 – Ryosuke Yamada, actor and singer May 10 – Mirai Shida, actress May 17 – Ayaka Sayama, gravure idol May 19 – Ryunosuke Kamiki, actor June 15 – Kanna Arihara, singer June 21 – Reni Takagi, idol July 2 – Yosuke Kishi, singer and actor July 13 – Rena Nōnen, actress and fashion model July 14 – Sayaka Yamamoto, singer and actress July 15 – Masataka Yoshida, professional baseball player July 30 – Miho Miyazaki, singer and actress August 3 – Yurina Kumai, singer August 4 – Alan Shirahama, singer, dancer and actor August 5 – Suzuka Ohgo, child actress August 6 – Kaori Ishihara, voice actress August 9 – Kensuke Kondo, professional baseball player August 10 – Yuto Nakajima, singer August 24 – Aoi Koga, voice actress August 28 – Sora Amamiya, voice actress and singer. August 31 – Haruka Imai, figure skater September 1 – Shōta Imanaga, professional baseball player September 19 – Miyuki Watanabe, singer and model November 10 – Azusa Tadokoro, voice actress and singerhttp://www.horipro-international.com/artist/musician/tadokoro 田所 あずさ Azusa Tadokoro HoriPro International Artists ja 1 May 2022 15 June 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210615073643/http://www.horipro-international.com/artist/musician/tadokoro dead November 15 – Saaya Irie, actress and model November 20 – Sumire Satō, actress and idolja:佐藤 すみれ – すみれだより sumire sato – from sumire https://lounge.dmm.com/detail/963/ DMM.com ja 1 May 2022 November 26 – Erena Ono, singerAKB48 ja:小野恵令奈 Erena Ono ja http://www.akb48.co.jp/members/ono_erena/ https://web.archive.org/web/20071029234417/http://www.akb48.co.jp/members/ono_erena/ 29 October 2007 1 May 2022 November 30 – Yuri Chinen, singer and actorhttps://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/353145/profile/ ja:知念侑李のプロフィール Profile of Yuri Chinen 24 March 2009 Oricon News oricon ME inc. ja 10 April 2022 December 7 – Kiyou Shimizu, karate martial artisthttps://www.olympedia.org/athletes/144403 Kiyou Shimizu Olympedia OlyMADMen 18 October 2021 December 15 – Yuko Araki, actress and modelhttps://www.stardust.co.jp/section3/profile/arakiyuko.html ja:新木優子 YUKO NIIGI Stardust Promotion, Inc. Stardust Music, Inc. ja 19 October 2021 December 18 – Riria Kojima, actresshttp://www.kirinpro.co.jp/cgi/list/girls.cgi?id=1084&mode=show Official Profile at Kirin Pro January 3, 2023 May 17, 2008 https://web.archive.org/web/20080517213603/http://www.kirinpro.co.jp/cgi/list/girls.cgi?id=1084&mode=show dead December 23 – Ruriko Kojima, gravure idol and sportscasterhttps://www.horipro.co.jp/kojimaruriko/ ja:小島瑠璃子 (コジマルリコ) Ruriko Kojima (Kojima Riko) HoriPro Inc. ja 19 October 2021 19 October 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20211019045005/https://www.horipro.co.jp/kojimaruriko/ dead December 24 – Mariya Nishiuchi, actress, model and singer-songwriterhttps://www.zimbio.com/Mariya+Nishiuchi Mariya Nishiuchi Zimbio Livingly Media, Inc. 19 October 2021 December 25 – Emi Takei, actress, model and singerhttps://www.zimbio.com/Emi+Takei Emi Takei Zimbio Livingly Media, Inc. 16 October 2021 December 28 – Yua Shinkawa, actress and modelhttps://mdpr.jp/news/detail/1484520 「Seventeen」卒業の新川優愛、モデル・女優としての活動を振り返る＜プロフィール・略歴＞ Yuai Shinkawa, graduating from "Seventeen", looks back on her work as a model and actress <profile and biography> 1 May 2015 Model Press Netnative Inc. ja 19 October 2021 Deaths January 22: Kōbō Abe, author (b. 1924) February 9: Saburo Okita, former foreign minister (b. 1914) February 28: Ishirō Honda, film director (b. 1911) April 2: Masaichi Niimi, admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War (b. 1887) July 3: Tadao Yoshida, founder of the YKK Group, the world's largest zipper manufacturer (b. 1908) July 10: Masuji Ibuse, writer (b. 1898) August 6: Genkei Masamune, botanist (b. 1899) August 21: Ichirō Fujiyama, composer and singer (b. 1911) October 29: Masahiro Makino, film director (b. 1908) November 14: Sanzō Nosaka, one of the founders of the Japanese Communist Party (b. 1892)https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sanzo-nosaka-1504671.html Kirkup James James Kirkup Obituary: Sanzo Nosaka The Independent People 16 November 1993 29 April 2022http://www.terra.es/personal2/monolith/obit_idx.htm Political Obituary, 1990–2007 ZPC, Roberto Ortiz de Zárate es https://web.archive.org/web/20070706222559/http://www.terra.es/personal2/monolith/obit_idx.htm 6 July 2007 29 April 2022 December 16: Kakuei Tanaka, former Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1918)Sterngold James https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/17/obituaries/kakuei-tanaka-75-ex-premier-and-political-force-in-japan-dies.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm Kakuei Tanaka, 75, Ex-Premier and Political Force in Japan, Dies 17 December 1993 The New York Times 15 October 2021 December 20: Iichirō Hatoyama, politician and diplomat (b. 1918)https://www.nytimes.com/1993/12/20/obituaries/iichiro-hatoyama-ex-foreign-minister-75.html Iichiro Hatoyama; Ex-Foreign Minister, 75 The New York Times Reuters 20 December 1993 18 October 2021 Statistics Yen value: US$1 = ¥109.91 (December 1) See also 1993 in Japanese television List of Japanese films of 1993 References 1993 in Category:Years of the 20th century in Japan Japan Category:1993 in Asia Category:1990s in Japan