1994 in Japan

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Events in the year 1994 in Japan. It corresponds to Heisei 6 (平成6年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents[]

  • Emperor: Akihito[1]
  • Prime Minister: Morihiro Hosokawa (JNP–Kumamoto) to April 28 Tsutomu Hata (JRP–Nagano) to June 30 Tomiichi Murayama (S–Ōita)
  • Chief Cabinet Secretary: Masayoshi Takemura (NPH–Shiga) to April 28 (JRP–Shizuoka) to June 30 Kōzō Igarashi (S–Hokkaidō)
  • Chief Justice of the Supreme Court:
  • President of the House of Representatives: Takako Doi (S–Hyōgo)
  • President of the House of Councillors: (L–Tokyo)
  • Diet sessions: 129th (regular, January 31 to June 29) 130th (extraordinary, July 18 to July 22) 131st (extraordinary, September 30 to December 9)[2]

Governors[]

Events[]

  • April 25 – The Shinjuku Park Tower, designed by Kenzo Tange and featured in the film Lost in Translation, is completed.
  • April 26 – China Airlines Flight 140, an Airbus A300, crashes while landing at Nagoya Airfield, killing 264 people
  • June to October – A heatwave hit and water shortage around Japan, according to Japan Weathfare and Ministry official announced, total 579 person death by heat-stroke in Japan.[3]
  • June 28 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult execute the first sarin gas attack at Matsumoto, Japan, killing 8 and injuring 200.
  • August – The office of the Prime Minister establishes a website.
    • August 2 – While riding a moped, Takeshi Kitano is involved in a collision with a car in Shinjuku and is seriously injured.
  • August 5 – A bank 541 million-yen robbery incident in Kobe, according to National Police Agency of Japan confirmed report, there are no arrest on suspicion in incident.[4]
  • September 4 – Kansai International Airport in Osaka, Japan opens. All international services are transferred from Itami to Kansai.
  • October 2 - October 16 – The Asian Games are held in Hiroshima.[5]
  • October 13 – Kenzaburō Ōe receives the Nobel Prize in Literature.
  • December 26 – According to Japan Coast Guard official confirmed report, a fishing boat, Gorotake-maru No.25 capsized by rough sea off Omaezaki, Shizuoka Prefecture, 18 crews were their lost to lives.[citation needed]

Births[]

Fumi Nikaidō
  • January 13 – Yuma Nakayama, actor and singer
  • January 29 – Ayane Sakura, voice actress
  • February 5 – Saki Nakajima, singer
  • February 24 – Kōta Nakagawa, professional baseball pitcher
  • February 27 – Rie Takahashi, voice actress
  • March 6 – Miwako Kakei, actress
  • March 10 – Mariya Nagao, actress
  • March 13 – Kento Nakajima, singer and actor
  • March 26 – Mayu Watanabe, singer
  • March 30 – Haruka Shimazaki, actress and singer
  • April 4 – Risako Sugaya, singer
  • April 12 – Airi Suzuki, pop singer, actress and model
  • May 24: Daiya Seto, swimmer
  • August 8: Kazuki Tanaka, professional baseball player
  • August 18: Seiya Suzuki, professional baseball player
  • April 25 – Hirona Yamazaki, actress
  • June 15 – Rina Hidaka, voice actress
  • June 21 – Chisato Okai, singer
  • July 5 – Shohei Ohtani, baseball player
  • August 1 – Ayaka Wada,
  • August 4 – Mayuko Fukuda, Japanese actress
  • August 16 – Riho Takada, actress and model
  • August 17 – Tasuku Hatanaka, actor and voice actor
  • September 1 – Haruka Miyashita, volleyball player
  • September 7 – Kento Yamazaki, actor and model
  • September 21 – Fumi Nikaidō, actress and fashion model
  • October 13 – Yuta Watanabe, basketball player
  • October 30 – Miyū Tsuzurahara, voice actress and child actress
  • November 7 – Haruna Iikubo, singer
  • November 9 – Kōji Chikamoto, professional baseball player
  • November 10 – Takuma Asano, footballer
  • November 17 – Naoki Maeda, footballer
  • December 7 – Yuzuru Hanyu, figure skater
  • December 29 – Princess Kako of Akishino, Princess and daughter of Prince Akishino and Princess Akishino

Deaths[]

  • May 4 – Koto Matsudaira, diplomat (b. 1903)
  • May 21 – Masayoshi Ito, politician (b. 1913)
  • November 13 – Motoo Kimura, geneticist (b. 1924)
  • December 4 – Ichiro Ogimura, table tennis player (b. 1932)
  • December 9 – Kinichiro Sakaguchi, agricultural chemist and microbiologist (b. 1897)

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Akihito | Biography, Reign, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  2. ^ House of Representatives: List of Diet sessions Archived 2012-08-19 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)
  3. ^ ja:1994年の猛暑(日本) (Japanese language) Retrieved date on March 24, 2017.
  4. ^ ja:福徳銀行５億円強奪事件 (Japanese language) Retrieved date on March 24, 2017.
  5. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-06-17. Retrieved 2011-04-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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