1994 in Japan

Events in the year 1994 in Japan. It corresponds to Heisei 6 (平成6年) in the Japanese calendar.

← 1993 1992 1991 1994 in Japan → 1995 1996 1997
Decades:	1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s
See also:	Other events of 1994 History of Japan  • Timeline  • Years

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]

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
• 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.[3]
• 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.[4]
• 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.[5]
• October 13 – Kenzaburō Ōe receives the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Births

Fumi Nikaidō

• January 13 – Yuma Nakayama, actor and singer
• January 29 – Ayane Sakura, voice actress
• February 5 – Saki Nakajima, singer
• 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
• August 1 – Ayaka Wada,
• August 16 – Riho Takada, actress and model
• August 17 – Tasuku Hatanaka, actor and voice actor
• September 1 – Haruka Miyashita, volleyball player
• September 21 – Fumi Nikaidō, actress and fashion model
• October 30 – Miyū Tsuzurahara, voice actress and child actress
• November 7 – Haruna Iikubo, singer
• November 10 – Takuma Asano, footballer
• November 17 – Naoki Maeda, 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)
• 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

References

1. "Akihito | Biography, Reign, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
2. House of Representatives: List of Diet sessions Archived 2012-08-19 at the Wayback Machine (in Japanese)
3. ja:1994年の猛暑(日本) (Japanese language) Retrieved date on March 24, 2017.
4. ja:福徳銀行５億円強奪事件 (Japanese language) Retrieved date on March 24, 2017.
5. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2013-06-17. Retrieved 2011-04-11.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)