1993 in Japan

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

Incumbents

Emperor: Akihito
Prime Minister: Kiichi Miyazawa until August 9, Hosokawa Morihiro
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Yōhei Kōno until August 9, Masayoshi Takemura
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Ryōhachi Kusaba
President of the House of Representatives: Yoshio Sakurauchi until June 18, Takako Doi from August 6
President of the House of Councillors: Bunbē Hara
Diet sessions: 126th, 127th, 128th

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: Hiroyuki Kodera
Hiroshima Prefecture: Toranosuke Takeshita ; Yūzan Fujita
Hokkaido: Takahiro Yokomichi
Hyogo Prefecture: Toshitami Kaihara
Ibaraki Prefecture: Fujio Takeuchi ; Masaru Hashimoto
Ishikawa Prefecture: Yōichi Nakanishi
Iwate Prefecture: Iwao Kudō
Kagawa Prefecture: Jōichi Hirai
Kagoshima Prefecture: Yoshiteru Tsuchiya
Kanagawa Prefecture: Kazuji Nagasu
Kochi Prefecture: Daijiro Hashimoto
Kumamoto Prefecture: Joji Fukushima
Kyoto Prefecture: Teiichi Aramaki
Mie Prefecture: Ryōzō Tagawa
Miyagi Prefecture: Shuntarō Honma ; Shirō Asano
Miyazaki Prefecture: Suketaka Matsukata
Nagano Prefecture: Gorō Yoshimura
Nagasaki Prefecture: Isamu Takada
Nara Prefecture: Yoshiya Kakimoto
Niigata Prefecture: Ikuo Hirayama
Oita Prefecture: Morihiko Hiramatsu
Okayama Prefecture: Shiro Nagano
Okinawa Prefecture: Masahide Ōta
Osaka Prefecture: Kazuo Nakagawa
Saga Prefecture: Isamu Imoto
Saitama Prefecture: Yoshihiko Tsuchiya
Shiga Prefecture: Minoru Inaba
Shiname Prefecture: Nobuyoshi Sumita
Shizuoka Prefecture: Shigeyoshi Saitō ; Yoshinobu Ishikawa
Tochigi Prefecture: Fumio Watanabe
Tokushima Prefecture: Shinzo Miki ; Toshio Endo
Tokyo: Shun'ichi Suzuki
Tottori Prefecture: Yuji Nishio
Toyama Prefecture: Yutaka Nakaoki
Wakayama Prefecture: Shirō Kariya
Yamagata Prefecture: Seiichirō Itagaki ; Kazuo Takahashi
Yamaguchi Prefecture: Toru Hirai
Yamanashi Prefecture: Ken Amano

Events

January 15: A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes off the shore of Kushiro, Hokkaido; two people die and 966 are injured.
January 27: Sumo wrestler Akebono Tarō becomes the first non-Japanese participant to reach the rank of yokozuna.
April 15: The 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: The 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: Torrential rain and a resultant debris flow occur in the Kagoshima area of Kyushu Island. According to the report by the Fire and Disaster Management Agency, 72 people died and 142 were injured.
August 3: The Kono Statement is issued by the 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
January 29 – Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, singer and model
January 30 - Kodai Senga, professional baseball player
February 11 - Takumi Ohshiro, 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 24 – Aoi Koga, voice actress
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
November 15 - Saaya Irie, actress and model
November 20 - Sumire Satō, actress and idol
November 26 – Erena Ono, singer
November 30 – Yuri Chinen, singer and actor
December 7 - Kiyou Shimizu, karate martial artist
December 15 - Yuko Araki, actress and model
December 18 - Riria Kojima, actress
December 23 - Ruriko Kojima, gravure idol and sportscaster
December 24 - Mariya Nishiuchi, actress, model and singer-songwriter
December 25 - Emi Takei, actress, model and singer
December 28 - Yua Shinkawa, actress and model

Deaths

January 22: Kōbō Abe, author
February 9: Saburo Okita, former foreign minister
February 28: Ishirō Honda, film director
April 2: Masaichi Niimi, admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War
July 3: Tadao Yoshida, founder of the YKK Group, the world's largest zipper manufacturer
July 10: Masuji Ibuse, writer
August 6: Genkei Masamune, botanist
August 21: Ichirō Fujiyama, composer and singer
October 29: Masahiro Makino, film director
November 14: Sanzō Nosaka, one of the founders of the Japanese Communist Party
December 16: Kakuei Tanaka, former Prime Minister of Japan
December 20: Iichirō Hatoyama, politician and diplomat

Statistics

Yen value: US$1 = ¥109.91