1993 in Japan

Events in the year 1993 in Japan. It corresponds to Heisei 5 (平成5年)) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

• Emperor: Akihito
• 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); YÅ«zan 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Births

• January 6 – Taku Yashiro, voice actor
• January 12
• Aika Mitsui, singer
• Yu Inaba, actor
• 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 - YÅ«ji 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 singer
• November 15 - Saaya Irie, actress and model
• November 20 – Sumire Satō, actress and idol
• November 26 – Erena Ono, singer
• November 30 – Yuri Chinen, singer and actor
• December 7 - Kiyou Shimizu, karate martial artist
• December 15 - Yuko Araki, actress and model
• December 18 - Riria Kojima, actress
• December 23 - Ruriko Kojima, gravure idol and sportscaster
• December 24 - Mariya Nishiuchi, actress, model and singer-songwriter
• December 25 - Emi Takei, actress, model and singer
• December 28 - Yua Shinkawa, actress and model

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)
• December 16: Kakuei Tanaka, former Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1918)
• December 20: Iichirō Hatoyama, politician and diplomat (b. 1918)

Statistics

• Yen value: US$1 = Â¥109.91 (December 1)

See also

• 1993 in Japanese television
• List of Japanese films of 1993

References