1990 in Japan

none December 2016 1990 Events in the year 1990 in Japan. It corresponds to Heisei 2 (平成2年) in the Japanese calendar. 1990 was the last year of the Japanese asset price bubble. Incumbents Emperor: AkihitoAkihito Biography, Reign, & Facts https://www.britannica.com/biography/Akihito Encyclopedia Britannica 27 March 2019 en Prime Minister: Toshiki Kaifu (L–Aichi) Chief Cabinet Secretary: Mayumi Moriyama (Councillor, L–Tochigi) until February 28, Misoji Sakamoto (L–Ishikawa) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Kōichi Yaguchi until February 19, Ryōhachi Kusaba from February 20 President of the House of Representatives: Hajime Tamura (L–Mie) until January 24, Yoshio Sakurauchi (L–Shimane) from February 27 President of the House of Councillors: Yoshihiko Tsuchiya (L–Saitama) Diet sessions: 117th (regular session opened in December 1989, to January 24), 118th (special, February 27 to June 26), 119th (extraordinary, October 12 to November 10), 120th (regular, December 10 to 1991, May 8) 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: Ichiro Shimizu Hiroshima Prefecture: Toranosuke Takeshita Hokkaido: Takahiro Yokomichi Hyogo Prefecture: Toshitami Kaihara Ibaraki Prefecture: Fujio Takeuchi Ishikawa Prefecture: Yōichi Nakanishi Iwate Prefecture: Tadashi Nakamura (governor) ja 中村直 Tadashi Nakamura Kagawa Prefecture: Jōichi Hirai Kagoshima Prefecture: Yoshiteru Tsuchiya Kanagawa Prefecture: Kazuji Nagasu Kochi Prefecture: Chikara Nakauchi Kumamoto Prefecture: Morihiro Hosokawa Kyoto Prefecture: Teiichi Aramaki Mie Prefecture: Ryōzō Tagawa Miyagi Prefecture: Shuntarō Honma Miyazaki Prefecture: Suketaka Matsukata Nagano Prefecture: Gorō Yoshimura Nagasaki Prefecture: Isamu Takada Nara Prefecture: Shigekiyo Ueda Niigata Prefecture: Kiyoshi Kaneko Oita Prefecture: Morihiko Hiramatsu Okayama Prefecture: Shiro Nagano Okinawa Prefecture: Junji Nishime (until 9 December); Masahide Ōta (starting 10 December) Osaka Prefecture: Sakae Kishi Saga Prefecture: Kumao Katsuki Saitama Prefecture: Yawara Hata Shiga Prefecture: Minoru Inaba Shiname Prefecture: Nobuyoshi Sumita Shizuoka Prefecture: Shigeyoshi Saitō Tochigi Prefecture: Fumio Watanabe Tokushima Prefecture: Shinzo Miki Tokyo: Shun'ichi Suzuki Tottori Prefecture: Yuji Nishio Toyama Prefecture: Yutaka Nakaoki Wakayama Prefecture: Shirō Kariya Yamagata Prefecture: Seiichirō Itagaki Yamaguchi Prefecture: Toru Hirai Yamanashi Prefecture: Kōmei Mochizuki Events February 18: Elections for the House of Representatives. February 28: Second Kaifu cabinet formed. March 10: Keiyo Line opens between Tokyo and Chiba. March 18: A supermarket store fire in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, according to official confirmed report; 15 fatalities, with 6 people injured. April 1: International Flower Exposition opens in Osaka. June 29: Fumihito, Prince Akishino, second son of Emperor Akihito, weds Kiko Kawashima. July 2: A heavy torrential rain and landslide hit in Aso-Kujyu area, part of Oita Prefecture and Kumamoto Prefecture, according to Fire and Disaster Management agency official confirmed report, 32 person fatalities with 109 person injures.May 2017 August 13: Orix Braves baseball team announces that it will move to Kobe and become the Orix BlueWave. September 19 – 20: According to Fire and Disaster Management Agency official confirmed report, Typhoon Flo, hit powerful strong wind, flash flood, tornado hit in around Honshu, total 44 person were death, 197 person were hurt.February 2020 September 27: A MBB/Kawasaki BK 117 helicopter crash into mountain in Hyuga, Miyazaki Prefecture, according to Japan Transport Safety Board official confirmed report, 10 persons were lost to lives.March 2017 October 21: Ayrton Senna wins his second drivers' title at Suzuka following a controversial collision with Alain Prost at the start of the race. McLaren-Honda win the Constructors' title.Japan 1990 • STATS F1 https://www.statsf1.com/en/1990/japon.aspx 2026-05-12 www.statsf1.com November 12: Akihito is enthroned as Emperor of Japan. November 21: Nintendo releases its successor to the Family Computer and third home video game console, the Super Famicom. The console launched with F-Zero and Super Mario World. December 2: Toyohiro Akiyama becomes the first Japanese person in space, being launched as a crew member onboard Soyuz TM-11.Spaceflight mission report: Soyuz TM-11 https://www.spacefacts.de/mission/english/soyuz-tm11.htm 2026-05-12 www.spacefacts.deAkiyama http://www.astronautix.com/astros/akiyama.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20081229011920/http://www.astronautix.com/astros/akiyama.htm 2008-12-29 2026-05-12 www.astronautix.com December 29: Kaifu cabinet reshuffled. Births January 24 Mao Abe, singer-songwriter Ryosuke Irie, swimmer January 28: Ichiko Aoba, singer-songwriter January 31: Kota Yabu singer and actor February 4: Haruka Tomatsu, voice actress February 15 Masashi Ebinuma, judoka Rina Sumioka, singer-songwriter. March 11: Ryosuke Kikuchi, professional baseball player March 17: Tamamori Yuta, actor and singer March 24: Izumi Kato, swimmer March 26: Yuya Takaki, actor and singer April 5: Haruma Miura, actor and singer (d. 2020) April 12: Hiroki Sakai, footballer April 16: Risa Honma, idol May 22: An Byong-jun, North Korean, footballer June 1: Rie Murakawa, voice actress and singer June 15: Miwa, singer June 22: Kei Inoo, singer and actor June 29: Sayuri Sugawara, singer July 3: Nana Iwasaka, volleyball player July 11: Risa Shinnabe, volleyball player July 21: Sayuri Iwata, model August 3: Chiemi Blouson, comedian August 6: Natsuko Aso, actress and singer August 13: Sae Miyazawa, idol September 19: Saki Fukuda, actress September 23: Yōhei Kagitani, professional baseball pitcher September 25: Mao Asada, figure skater September 27: Atsumi Tanezaki, voice actress October 4: Saki, guitarist and songwriter October 9: Takahiro Shiraishi, seria killer (d. 2025) November 12: Hideto Asamura, professional baseball player November 15 Kanata Hongō, actor and model Erika Yazawa, gravure idol November 28: Hayato Katsuki, race walker December 2: Hikaru Yaotome, singer and songwriter December 10: Shoya Tomizawa, motorcycle rider (d. 2010) December 20: Minami Takahashi, voice actress December 22: Chika Anzai, voice actress December 23: Yu Horiuchi, wrestler Deaths January 20: Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, prime minister of Japan (b. 1887) April 13: Norio Kijima, announcer and politician (b. 1925) June 13: Michiyo Kogure, film actress (b. 1918) June 15: Nobuo Arai, swimmer (b. 1909) July 23: Kenjiro Takayanagi, television engineer, creator of the world's first all-electronic television receiver (b. 1899) September 1: Edwin O. Reischauer, former U.S. ambassador (b. 1910) September 25: Togyu Okumura, modern painter (b. 1889) November 5: Shunkichi Kikuchi, photographer (b. 1916) December 4: Naoto Tajima, athlete (b. 1912) December 28: Seiji Hisamatsu, film director (b. 1912) Statistics Yen value: US$1 = ¥129 (low) to ¥159 (high) See also 1990 in Japanese television List of Japanese films of 1990 1990 in Japanese music References 1990 in Category:Years of the 20th century in Japan Japan Category:1990 in Asia Category:1990s in Japan ja:長崎屋火災