1994 in Japan explained

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 Hiroshi Kumagai (JRP–Shizuoka) to June 30 Kōzō Igarashi (S–Hokkaidō)
• Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Ryōhachi Kusaba
• President of the House of Representatives: Takako Doi (S–Hyōgo)
• President of the House of Councillors: Bunbē Hara (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

• 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

• Hokkaido

• • Hyogo Prefecture: Toshitami Kaihara Ibaraki Prefecture

• Ishikawa Prefecture

Yōichi Nakanishi (until 29 March); Masanori Tanimoto (starting 29 March)

• • • • 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

• • 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: Yoshinobu Ishikawa Tochigi Prefecture: Fumio Watanabe
  • Tokushima Prefecture: Toshio Endo Tokyo

• • Tottori Prefecture: Yuji Nishio Toyama Prefecture: Yutaka Nakaoki
    • • Wakayama Prefecture: Shirō Kariya Yamagata Prefecture: Kazuo Takahashi Yamaguchi Prefecture: Toru Hirai Yamanashi Prefecture: Ken Amano

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. It is the second deadliest aviation incident in Japan, as well as the third deadliest involving an Airbus A300.^{[3] [4]}
• 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.^[5]
• 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.^[6]
• 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.^[7]
• October 13  - Kenzaburō Ōe receives the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• December 28; At least three people die after a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Aomori and Iwate prefectures.^[8]

Births

• 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
• 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)
• September 23  - Masako Kyōzuka, actress (b. 1930)
• 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

• 1994 in Japanese television
• List of Japanese films of 1994

Notes and References

1. Web site: Akihito Biography, Reign, & Facts . Encyclopedia Britannica . 27 March 2019 . en.
2. House of Representatives: List of Diet sessions
3. Web site: Japan air safety profile. Ranter. Harro. aviation-safety.net. Aviation Safety Network. 2019-05-30. 2005-03-07. https://web.archive.org/web/20050307081942/http://aviation-safety.net/database/country/country.php?id=JA. live.
4. Web site: Ranter. Harro. Airbus A300. 2019-05-30. aviation-safety.net. Aviation Safety Network. 2019-05-30. https://web.archive.org/web/20190530010334/https://aviation-safety.net/database/types/Airbus-A300/index. live.
5. [:ja:1994年の猛暑(日本)]
6. [:ja:福徳銀行５億円強奪事件]
7. Web site: Hiroshima 1994 Asian Games (Photos attached) . 2011-04-11 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130617120725/http://en.beijing2008.cn/58/81/article212058158.shtml . 2013-06-17 .
8. Web site: (4)The 1994 Earthquake far off the Coast of Sanriku (December 28, 1994, M 7.5) . 2022-10-16 . www.hp1039.jishin.go.jp . 2024-04-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20240416021233/https://www.hp1039.jishin.go.jp/eqchreng/4-2-4.htm . live .