• Source: 1991 in Japan

Events in the year 1991 in Japan. It corresponds to Heisei 3 (平成3年) in the Japanese calendar.




Incumbents


Emperor: Akihito
Prime Minister: Toshiki Kaifu (L–Aichi) until November 5, Kiichi Miyazawa
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Misoji Sakamoto (L–Ishikawa) until November 5, Kōichi Katō (L–Yamagata)
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Ryōhachi Kusaba
President of the House of Representatives: Yoshio Sakurauchi (L–Shimane)
President of the House of Councillors: Yoshihiko Tsuchiya (L–Saitama) until October 4, Yūji Osada (L–proportional)
Diet sessions: 120th (regular session opened in December 1990, to May 8), 121st (extraordinary, August 5 to October 4), 122nd (extraordinary, November 5 to December 21)




= Governors

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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 (until 12 June); Hiroyuki Kodera (starting 28 July)
Hiroshima Prefecture: Toranosuke Takeshita
Hokkaido: Takahiro Yokomichi
Hyogo Prefecture: Toshitami Kaihara
Ibaraki Prefecture: Fujio Takeuchi
Ishikawa Prefecture: Yōichi Nakanishi
Iwate Prefecture: Tadashi Nakamura (until 29 April); Iwao Kudō (starting 29 April)
Kagawa Prefecture: Jōichi Hirai
Kagoshima Prefecture: Yoshiteru Tsuchiya
Kanagawa Prefecture: Kazuji Nagasu
Kochi Prefecture: Chikara Nakauchi (until 6 December); Daijiro Hashimoto (starting 7 December)
Kumamoto Prefecture: Morihiro Hosokawa (until 10 February); Joji Fukushima (starting 11 February)
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 (until 27 November); Yoshiya Kakimoto (starting 28 November)
Niigata Prefecture: Kiyoshi Kaneko
Oita Prefecture: Morihiko Hiramatsu
Okayama Prefecture: Shiro Nagano
Okinawa Prefecture: Masahide Ōta
Osaka Prefecture: Sakae Kishi (until 22 April); Kazuo Nakagawa (starting 23 April)
Saga Prefecture: Kumao Katsuki (until 22 April); Isamu Imoto (starting 23 April)
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 (until 16 February); Ken Amano (starting 17 February)




Events


January 1: Telephone numbers in Tokyo are expanded from 7 digits to 8 digits
March 14: A under constructing to Hiroshima Astram Line bridge girder falling accident, kills 14, injures 9.
April 1: Tokyo Metropolitan Government moved its offices from Marunouchi to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Shinjuku.
April 26: Self-Defense Forces dispatched to assist in the Gulf War.
May 14: Shigaraki train disaster – 42 fatalities, 614 injures in Shiga Prefecture.
June 3: Mount Unzen in Nagasaki Prefecture saw a pyroclastic flow, resulting in 43 deaths.
June 15: The International Olympic Committee awards the 1998 Winter Olympics to Nagano, Japan.
June 20: Tohoku Shinkansen line is extended from Ueno Station to Tokyo Station.
July 13: 1991 Itoman special breach of trust case, six arrested by Japanese authorities.
July 31: Lotte Orions baseball team announces it will move to Chiba and become the Chiba Lotte Marines.
August 5: Aerospatiale SA365N helicopter crash in Muraoka, Mikata District, Hyōgo Prefecture, 8 fatalities.
August 14 – NTT Docomo was founded.
September 11: USS Independence is based at Yokosuka, becoming the United States Navy's only forward-deployed aircraft carrier.
September 27: Typhoon Mireille kills 45 people in Japan.
October 3: Kaifu resigns as prime minister.
November 5: Miyazawa announces his first cabinet.




Births






= January

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January 8: Asuka Hinoi, singer
January 14: Kana Ichikawa, sprinter
January 19: Yu Takahashi, model and actress




= February

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February 4: Aya Ōmasa, fashion model and actress




= March

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March 4: Aoi Nakamura, actor
March 10: Kenshi Yonezu, singer-songwriter
March 14: Michiko Kashiwabara, cross country skier
March 14: Miu Nakamura, tarento and gravure idol
March 15: Kii Kitano, gravure idol and actress
March 28: Rin Asuka, actress




= April

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April 8: Minami Takahashi, singer
April 11: Erina Mano, J-pop singer
April 11: Kenta Matsudaira, table tennis player
April 12: Daisuke Kikuchi, footballer
April 15: Daiki Arioka, singer
April 16: Misato Ugaki, announcer
April 17: Shinsaku Uesugi, FIDE master
April 20: Yuko Shintake, artistic gymnast
April 29: Misaki Doi, tennis player
May 3: Narita Brian, racehorse (died 1998)




= May

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May 24: Erika Umeda, singer
May 26: Takumi Abe, football player
May 29: Saori Hayami, voice actress and singer




= June

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June 15: Rina Takeda, actress and martial artist
June 17: Yusei Kikuchi, baseball pitcher
June 25: Kyousuke Hamao, actor and model
June 27: Haruka Yamazaki, voice actress and singer
June 30: Kaho, actress




= July

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July 3: Tomomi Itano, singer, actress and idol
July 10: Atsuko Maeda, singer
July 11: Kentaro Sakaguchi, model and actor
July 12: Tomoki Kameda, boxer
July 15: Yuki Kashiwagi, singer, actress and idol
July 18: Mizuki Yamamoto, model and actress
July 25: Miyu Nagaoka, volleyball player
July 27: Rena Matsui, singer and idol
July 28: Rina Aizawa, actress




= August

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August 3: Kaori Kawanaka, archer
August 16: Yūki Tokiwa, voice actor




= September

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September 17: Ryo Ishikawa, golfer




= October

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October 15: Sayaka Nakaya, idol
October 16: Miori Takimoto, actress
October 23: Princess Mako
October 26: Riho Iida, actress and child model
October 27: Sōta Murakami, actor and voice actor




= November

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November 12: Takatoshi Abe, track and field athlete
November 16: Tomomi Kasai, singer
November 19: Genki Yamamoto, cyclist
November 22: Saki Shimizu, singer
November 26: Yoshi Tsutsugo, professional baseball player
November 28: Mayuko Kawakita, actress and model




= December

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December 3: Masahiro Usui, actor
December 7: Dori Sakurada, actor and singer
December 14: Mitsuki Takahata, actress and singer
December 19: Sumire Uesaka, voice actress and singer
December 24: Shion Kokubun, figure skater
December 30: Kurumi Nara, tennis player




Deaths


January 2: Hiroshi Noma, author (b. 1915)
January 29: Yasushi Inoue, author (b. 1907)
February 24: Shingo Kanemoto, voice actor (b. 1932)
May 15: Shintaro Abe, politician (b. 1924)
May 26: Kisaburo Osawa, aikido teacher (b. 1910)
June 3: Takeshi Nagata, earth scientist (b. 1913)
July 5: Nobuo Nakamura, actor (b. 1908)
July 11: Hitoshi Igarashi, scholar (b. 1947)
August 5: Soichiro Honda, founder of Honda Motor Company (b. 1906)
August 8: Mitsuko Yoshikawa, actress (b. 1901)
September 3: Susumu Ishii, second kaicho (Godfather) of Inagawa-kai (b. 1924)
October 22: Hachiro Kasuga, enka singer (b. 1924)
November 12: Keizō Hayashi, civil servant and military general (b. 1907)
November 14: Yoshikata Yoda, screenwriter (b. 1909)
November 23: Ken Uehara, film actor (b. 1909)
November 27: Yō Yoshimura, voice actor (b. 1909)




Statistics


Yen value: US$1 = ¥124.85 (December 31)




See also


1991 in Japanese football
1991 in Japanese television
List of Japanese films of 1991




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