Events in the year 1998 in Japan. It corresponds to the year Heisei 10 (å¹³æÂÂ10å¹´) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
Governors
Events
Births
- January 5 - Marie Iitoyo, model and actress
- January 23 - Yuto Adachi, singer and member of South Korean boy band Pentagon
- February 8 - Rui Hachimura, basketball player
- March 19 - Sakura Miyawaki, singer and member of South Korean girl group Le Sserafim
- March 26 - Satoko Miyahara, figure skater
- April 6 - Rina Katsuta, singer
- April 10 - Airi Kinoshita, murder victim (d. 2005)
- April 28 - Manamo Miyata, singer and member of Hinatazaka46
- May 13 - Karen Iwata, singer and voice actress
- May 28 - Riho Sayashi, J-pop singer
- May 31 - Ryang Hyon-ju, North Korean, footballer
- June 14 - Taishi Nakagawa, actor and model
- June 19 - Suzu Hirose, model and actress
- July 9 - Tiger Onitsuka, jazz drummer
- July 16 - Rina Matsuno, singer (d. 2017)
- July 26 - Maya Sakura, singer
- July 27 - Risa Watanabe, idol and model
- August 5 - Kanon Suzuki, singer
- August 17 - Yoshinobu Yamamoto, professional baseball player
- August 28 - Haruka Fukuhara, actress, model and singer
- August 29 - Yui Kawamoto, professional golfer
- September 29 - Aoi Fujino, gravure idol (d. 2026)
- October 30 - Meimi Tamura, singer and actress
- November 12 - Yuna Taira, actress
- November 29 - Ayumu Hirano, snowboarder
- December 24 - Keito Tsuna, actor
- December 30 - Akari Uemura, pop singer
Deaths
- January 9 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
- January 21 – Yoshifumi KondÃ
Â, animator (b. 1950)
- January 26 – Shinichi Suzuki, violinist (b. 1898)
- January 27 – Tamio Kageyama, novelist (b. 1947)
- January 28 – Shotaro Ishinomori, Manga artist, "Father of Henshin heroes." (b. 1938)
- February 5 – Takahashi Chikuzan, Tsugaru-jamisen performer and composer (b. 1910)
- March 10 – KenkÃ
 Satoshi, Sumo wrestler (b. 1967)
- March 13 – Kosho Uchiyama, SÃ
ÂtÃ
 priest (b. 1912)
- April 20 – Yoshio Inaba, actor (b. 1920)
- May 2 – Matsumoto Hideto (hide), Japanese musician (b. 1964)
- May 10 – Nekojiru, manga artist (b. 1967)
- May 19 – SÃ
Âsuke Uno, Prime Minister (b. 1922)
- August 3 – Reizo Koike, breaststroke swimmer (b. 1915)
- August 28 – Hirokazu Kobayashi, aikidoka (b. 1929)
- September 6 – Akira Kurosawa, screenwriter, producer, and director (b. 1910)
- September 27 – Narita Bryan, racehorse (b. 1991)
- October 12 – Ineko Sata, communist and feminist author of proletarian literature (b. 1904)
- November 1 – Silence Suzuka, racehorse (b. 1994)
- November 5 – Momoko KÃ
Âchi, actress (b. 1932)
- December 1 – ShÃ
Âji Nakayama, actor (b. 1928)
- December 2 – Mikio Oda, athlete (b. 1905)
- December 30 – Keisuke Kinoshita, film director (b. 1912)
See also
References