1987 in Japan

Events in the year 1987 in Japan.
1987 was the second year of the Japanese asset price bubble: land values in Tokyo rose more than 85 percent between July 1986 and July 1987.

Incumbents

Emperor: Hirohito
Prime Minister: Yasuhiro Nakasone until November 6, Noboru Takeshita
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Masaharu Gotōda until November 6, Keizō Obuchi
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Kōichi Yaguchi
President of the House of Representatives: Kenzaburō Hara
President of the House of Councillors: Masaaki Fujita
Diet sessions: 108th, 109th, 110th, 111th, 112th

Governors

Aichi Prefecture: Reiji Suzuki
Akita Prefecture: Kikuji Sasaki
Aomori Prefecture: Masaya Kitamura
Chiba Prefecture: Takeshi Numata
Ehime Prefecture: Haruki Shiraishi ; Sadayuki Iga
Fukui Prefecture: Heidayū Nakagawa ; Yukio Kurita
Fukuoka Prefecture: Hachiji Okuda
Fukushima Prefecture: Isao Matsudaira
Gifu Prefecture: Yosuke Uematsu
Gunma Prefecture: Ichiro Shimizu
Hiroshima Prefecture: Toranosuke Takeshita
Hokkaido: Takahiro Yokomichi
Hyogo Prefecture: Toshitami Kaihara
Ibaraki Prefecture: Fujio Takeuchi
Ishikawa Prefecture: Yōichi Nakanishi
Iwate Prefecture:
Kagawa Prefecture: Jōichi Hirai
Kagoshima Prefecture: Kaname Kamada
Kanagawa Prefecture: Kazuji Nagasu
Kochi Prefecture: Chikara Nakauchi
Kumamoto Prefecture: Morihiro Hosokawa
Kyoto Prefecture: Teiichi Aramaki
Mie Prefecture: Ryōzō Tagawa
Miyagi Prefecture: Sōichirō Yamamoto
Miyazaki Prefecture: Suketaka Matsukata
Nagano Prefecture: Gorō Yoshimura
Nagasaki Prefecture: Isamu Takada
Nara Prefecture: Shigekiyo Ueda
Niigata Prefecture: Takeo Kimi
Oita Prefecture: Morihiko Hiramatsu
Okayama Prefecture: Shiro Nagano
Okinawa Prefecture: Junji Nishime
Osaka Prefecture: Sakae Kishi
Saga Prefecture: Kumao Katsuki
Saitama Prefecture: Yawara Hata
Shiga Prefecture: Minoru Inaba
Shiname Prefecture: Seiji Tsunematsu ; Nobuyoshi Sumita
Shizuoka Prefecture: Shigeyoshi Saitō
Tochigi Prefecture: Fumio Watanabe
Tokushima Prefecture: Shinzo Miki
Tokyo: Shun'ichi Suzuki
Tottori Prefecture: Yuji Nishio
Toyama Prefecture: Yutaka Nakaoki
Wakayama Prefecture: Shirō Kariya
Yamagata Prefecture: Seiichirō Itagaki
Yamaguchi Prefecture: Toru Hirai
Yamanashi Prefecture: Kōmei Mochizuki

Events

January 27: Construction began on Kansai International Airport.
February 9: First public float of NTT.
March 17: Asahi beer starts selling Asahi Super Dry.
April 1: Japanese National Railways is privatized and becomes the seven Japan Railways Group companies.
April 4: The Ariake Coliseum in Koto Ward, Tokyo, is completed.
June 1: Asahi TV starts broadcasting the popular short factual television programme See the World by Train (世界の車窓から)
June 6: A Shojuen elderly nursing home fire in Higashimurayama, Tokyo. according to Japanese Fire and Disaster Management agency confirmed report, 17 person lost to lives.
July 12: Metal Gear is released by Konami.
July 23: 1987 Tokyo Metropolitan area power outage, where 2.8 million household affected, which restore spent more three and half hours, according to Japanese government confirmed report.
October 1: Nippon Gakki Company Ltd. is renamed to Yamaha Corporation and Konishiroku Honten is renamed to Konica.
October 12: Susumu Tonegawa wins the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
October 30: NEC releases the PC Engine home video game console.
November 6: Noboru Takeshita becomes prime minister.
December 15: Production I.G is founded by Mitsuhisa Ishikawa and Takayuki Goto.
December 17: Rockman is released for the Family Computer.

During 1987:

NTT began the first mobile phone service in Japan.
Shoko Asahara founded Aum Shinrikyo.
Teikyo University of Technology and Science founded in Chiba City, as predecessor of Teikyo Heisei University.

Births

January 3: Nana Yanagisawa, actress and fashion model
January 8: Saori Gotō, voice actress
January 23: Yuto Nakamura, football player
February 12: Asami Tano, Japanese voice actress
February 15: Azumi Yamamoto, voice actress
March 12: Hiroomi Tosaka, Singer
March 15: Momoko Shibuya, actress
March 24: Yuma Asami, adult video actress
March 25: Nobunari Oda, figure skater
March 26: YUI, singer-songwriter
April 17: Nami Sano, manga artist
April 27: Anne Suzuki, actress
May 2
*Miyu Uehara, gravure idol and television personality
*Nana Kitade, singer
May 7: Asami Konno, J-pop singer
May 20: Taku Takeuchi, ski jumper
May 22
*Takuya Eguchi, voice actor
*Tao Okamoto, model
June 3: Masami Nagasawa, actress
June 17: Nozomi Tsuji, performer
June 19: Miho Fukuhara, singer
June 25: Takahiro Itō, actor and voice actor
July 3: Mikie Hara, gravure idol and actress
July 11
*Shigeaki Kato, singer
*Shun Yamaguchi, professional baseball player
July 17: Mio Nishimaki, wrestler
July 27: Kozue Akimoto, model
July 28: Sumire, model
August 16: Eri Kitamura, voice actress and singer
August 24: Daichi Miura, singer and dancer
September 11: Kaori Matsumoto, judoka
September 21: Elly, Dancer and Rapper
September 28: Sho Uchida, freestyle swimmer
October 1: Hiroki Aiba, actor, dancer, and singer
October 3: Asami Kitagawa, swimmer
October 4: Atomu Tanaka, football player
October 8: Aya Hirano, voice actress and singer
October 15: Mizuho Sakaguchi, footballer
October 23: Miyuu Sawai, model, actress, and idol
October 23: Naomi Watanabe, actress and comedian
October 27: Thelma Aoyama, J-Pop and R&B singer
October 29: Makoto Ogawa, pop singer
November 11: Yuya Tegoshi, singer
November 12: Kengo Kora, actor
November 27: Yuria Haga, model and actress
December 18
*Miki Ando, figure skater
*Ayaka, singer
*Yuki Furukawa, actor
December 19: Shuko Aoyama, Japanese tennis player
December 20
*Yutaka Otsuka, baseball player
*Michihiro Yasuda, football player

Deaths

January 21: Ikki Kajiwara, author, manga writer, and film producer
February 3: Prince Takamatsu
March 8: Iwao Yamawaki, photographer
April 5: Tsuneko Nakazato, novelist
April 15: Masatoshi Nakayama, master of Shotokan karate
April 21: Haruyasu Nakajima, baseball player
May 10: Sadamichi Hirasawa, tempera painter
June 6: Mori Mari, author
June 16: Kōji Tsuruta, actor
July 17: Yujiro Ishihara, actor
July 20: Ichirō Arishima, comedian and actor
August 5: Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, novelist, art critic, and translator of French literature
August 7: Nobusuke Kishi, former prime minister
August 10: Prince Yamashina Takehiko
August 16: Sumiko Kurishima, actress and master of traditional Japanese dance
November 11: Hiroshi Kawaguchi, actor
December 29: Jun Ishikawa, author

Statistics

Yen value: US$1 = ¥122 to ¥152