1993 in Japan explained

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

Incumbents

• Emperor: Akihito^[1]
• 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

• • • • • 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

• • Hyogo Prefecture: Toshitami Kaihara Ibaraki Prefecture

Fujio Takeuchi (until 11 August); Masaru Hashimoto (starting 26 September)

• Ishikawa Prefecture

• • • • Iwate Prefecture: Iwao Kudō Kagawa Prefecture: Jōichi Hirai Kagoshima Prefecture: Yoshiteru Tsuchiya Kanagawa Prefecture

• • Kochi Prefecture: Daijiro Hashimoto Kumamoto Prefecture

• Kyoto Prefecture

• • Mie Prefecture: Ryōzō Tagawa Miyagi Prefecture

Shuntarō Honma (until 4 October); Shirō Asano (starting 24 November)

• • Miyazaki Prefecture: Suketaka Matsukata Nagano Prefecture

• • Nagasaki Prefecture: Isamu Takada Nara Prefecture: Yoshiya Kakimoto
• Niigata Prefecture

• • Oita Prefecture: Morihiko Hiramatsu Okayama Prefecture

• Okinawa Prefecture

Masahide Ōta

• Osaka Prefecture

• Saga Prefecture

• Saitama Prefecture

Yoshihiko Tsuchiya

• Shiga Prefecture

• • 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

• • 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 struck off the shore of Kushiro, Hokkaido. Two people died and 966 were injured.^[2]
• January 27: Sumo wrestler Akebono Tarō becomes the first non-Japanese to reach the rank of yokozuna.
• April 15: 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: 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: A torrential rain and debris flow occur in Kagoshima area, Kyushu Island, according to a report by the Fire and Disaster Management Agency, 72 people died and 142 were injured.^[3]
• August 3: Kono Statement issued by 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^[4]
• January 29 – Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, singer and model
• January 30 - Kodai Senga, 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
• 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 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^[5]
• November 20  - Sumire Satō, actress and idol^[6]
• November 26 – Erena Ono, singer^[7]
• November 30 – Yuri Chinen, singer and actor^[8]
• December 7 - Kiyou Shimizu, karate martial artist^[9]
• December 15 - Yuko Araki, actress and model^[10]
• December 18 - Riria, actress^[11]
• December 23 - Ruriko Kojima, gravure idol and sportscaster^[12]
• December 24 - Mariya Nishiuchi, actress, model and singer-songwriter^[13]
• December 25 - Emi Takei, actress, model and singer^[14]
• December 28 - Yua Shinkawa, actress and model^[15]

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)^{[16] [17]}
• December 16: Kakuei Tanaka, former Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1918)^[18]
• December 20: Iichirō Hatoyama, politician and diplomat (b. 1918)^[19]

Statistics

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

See also

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Akihito Biography, Reign, & Facts . Encyclopedia Britannica . 27 March 2019 . en.
2. [:ja:釧路沖地震]
3. [:ja:平成5年8月豪雨]
4. Web site: "「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.
5. Web site: 田所 あずさ Azusa Tadokoro . . Artists . ja . 1 May 2022.
6. Web site: ja:佐藤 すみれ - すみれだより . sumire sato - from sumire . https://lounge.dmm.com/detail/963/ . . ja . 1 May 2022.
7. Web site: . 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.
8. Web site: https://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 . . . ja . 10 April 2022.
9. Web site: Kiyou Shimizu . . OlyMADMen . 18 October 2021.
10. Web site: https://www.stardust.co.jp/section3/profile/arakiyuko.html . ja:新木優子 . YUKO NIIGI . . ja . 19 October 2021.
11. Web site: 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 .
12. Web site: https://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.
13. Web site: Mariya Nishiuchi . . . 19 October 2021.
14. Web site: Emi Takei . Zimbio . Livingly Media, Inc. . 16 October 2021.
15. News: 「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 . 1 May 2015 . Model Press . Netnative Inc. . ja . 19 October 2021.
16. News: Obituary: Sanzo Nosaka . Kirkup . James . James Kirkup . . People . 16 November 1993 . 29 April 2022.
17. Web site: 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.
18. News: Sterngold . James . Kakuei Tanaka, 75, Ex-Premier and Political Force in Japan, Dies . 17 December 1993 . . 15 October 2021.
19. News: Iichiro Hatoyama; Ex-Foreign Minister, 75 . The New York Times . . 20 December 1993 . 18 October 2021.