1990 in Japan

Events in the year 1990 in Japan. It corresponds to Heisei 2 in the Japanese calendar.
1990 was the last year of the Japanese asset price bubble.

Incumbents

Emperor: Akihito
Prime Minister: Toshiki Kaifu
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Mayumi Moriyama until February 28, Misoji Sakamoto
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Kōichi Yaguchi until February 19, Ryōhachi Kusaba from February 20
President of the House of Representatives: Hajime Tamura until January 24, Yoshio Sakurauchi from February 27
President of the House of Councillors: Yoshihiko Tsuchiya
Diet sessions: 117th, 118th, 119th, 120th

Governors

Aichi Prefecture: Reiji Suzuki
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: 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: Yoshiteru Tsuchiya
Kanagawa Prefecture: Kazuji Nagasu
Kochi Prefecture: Chikara Nakauchi
Kumamoto Prefecture: Morihiro Hosokawa
Kyoto Prefecture: Teiichi Aramaki
Mie Prefecture: Ryōzō Tagawa
Miyagi Prefecture: Shuntarō Honma
Miyazaki Prefecture: Suketaka Matsukata
Nagano Prefecture: Gorō Yoshimura
Nagasaki Prefecture: Isamu Takada
Nara Prefecture: Shigekiyo Ueda
Niigata Prefecture: Kiyoshi Kaneko
Oita Prefecture: Morihiko Hiramatsu
Okayama Prefecture: Shiro Nagano
Okinawa Prefecture: Junji Nishime ; Masahide Ōta
Osaka Prefecture: Sakae Kishi
Saga Prefecture: Kumao Katsuki
Saitama Prefecture: Yawara Hata
Shiga Prefecture: Minoru Inaba
Shiname Prefecture: 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

February 18: Elections for the House of Representatives.
February 28: Second Kaifu cabinet formed.
March 10: Keiyo Line opens between Tokyo and Chiba.
March 18: A supermarket store fire in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, according to official confirmed report; 15 fatalities, with 6 people injured.
April 1: International Flower Exposition opens in Osaka.
June 29: Fumihito, Prince Akishino, second son of Emperor Akihito, weds Kiko Kawashima.
July 2: A heavy torrential rain and landslide hit in Aso-Kujyu area, part of Oita Prefecture and Kumamoto Prefecture, according to Fire and Disaster Management agency official confirmed report, 32 person fatalities with 109 person injures.
August 13: Orix Braves baseball team announces that it will move to Kobe and become the Orix BlueWave.
September 19 - 20: According to Fire and Disaster Management Agency official confirmed report, Typhoon Flo, hit powerful strong wind, flash flood, tornado hit in around Honshu, total 44 person were death, 197 person were hurt.
September 27: A MBB/Kawasaki BK 117 helicopter crash into mountain in Hyuga, Miyazaki Prefecture, according to Japan Transport Safety Board official confirmed report, 10 persons were lost to lives.
November 12: Akihito is enthroned as Emperor of Japan.
November 21: Nintendo releases its successor to the Family Computer and third home video game console, the Super Famicom. The console launched with F-Zero and Super Mario World.
December 29: Kaifu cabinet reshuffled.

Births

January 24
*Mao Abe, singer-songwriter
*Ryosuke Irie, swimmer
January 28: Ichiko Aoba, singer-songwriter
January 31: Kota Yabu singer and actor
February 4: Haruka Tomatsu, voice actress
February 15
*Masashi Ebinuma, judoka
*Rina Sumioka, singer-songwriter.
March 11: Ryosuke Kikuchi, professional baseball player
March 17: Tamamori Yuta, actor and singer
March 24: Izumi Kato, swimmer
March 26: Yuya Takaki, actor and singer
April 5: Haruma Miura, actor and singer
April 12: Hiroki Sakai, footballer
April 16: Risa Honma, idol
April 21: Abroad in Japan, British-born YouTuber based in Japan
May 22: An Byong-jun, North Korean, footballer
June 1: Rie Murakawa, voice actress and singer
June 15: Miwa, singer
June 22: Kei Inoo, singer and actor
June 29: Sayuri Sugawara, singer
July 3: Nana Iwasaka, volleyball player
July 11: Risa Shinnabe, volleyball player
July 21: Sayuri Iwata, model
August 3: Chiemi Blouson, comedian
August 6: Natsuko Aso, actress and singer
August 13: Sae Miyazawa, idol
September 19: Saki Fukuda, actress
September 23: Yōhei Kagitani, professional baseball pitcher
September 25: Mao Asada, figure skater
September 27: Atsumi Tanezaki, voice actress
October 4: Saki, guitarist and songwriter
October 9: Takahiro Shiraishi, seria killer
November 12: Hideto Asamura, professional baseball player
November 15
*Kanata Hongō, actor and model
*Erika Yazawa, gravure idol
November 28: Hayato Katsuki, race walker
December 2: Hikaru Yaotome, singer and songwriter
December 10: Shoya Tomizawa, motorcycle rider
December 20: Minami Takahashi, voice actress
December 22: Chika Anzai, voice actress
December 23: Yu Horiuchi, wrestler

Deaths

January 20: Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni, prime minister of Japan
April 13: Norio Kijima, announcer and politician
June 13: Michiyo Kogure, film actress
June 15: Nobuo Arai, swimmer
July 23: Kenjiro Takayanagi, television engineer, creator of the world's first all-electronic television receiver
September 1: Edwin O. Reischauer, former U.S. ambassador
September 25: Togyu Okumura, modern painter
November 5: Shunkichi Kikuchi, photographer
December 4: Naoto Tajima, athlete
December 28: Seiji Hisamatsu, film director

Statistics

Yen value: US$1 = ¥129 to ¥159