• Source: 1994 in Japan

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




Incumbents


Emperor: Akihito
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)




= 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: Hiroyuki Kodera
Hiroshima Prefecture: Yūzan Fujita
Hokkaido: Takahiro Yokomichi
Hyogo Prefecture: Toshitami Kaihara
Ibaraki Prefecture: Masaru Hashimoto
Ishikawa Prefecture: Yōichi Nakanishi (until 29 March); Masanori Tanimoto (starting 29 March)
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: 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: Yoshinobu Ishikawa
Tochigi Prefecture: Fumio Watanabe
Tokushima Prefecture: Toshio Endo
Tokyo: Shun'ichi Suzuki
Tottori Prefecture: Yuji Nishio
Toyama Prefecture: Yutaka Nakaoki
Wakayama Prefecture: Shirō Kariya
Yamagata Prefecture: Kazuo Takahashi
Yamaguchi Prefecture: Toru Hirai
Yamanashi Prefecture: Ken Amano




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. It is the second deadliest aviation incident in Japan, as well as the third deadliest involving an Airbus A300.
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.
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.
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.
October 13 – Kenzaburō Ōe receives the Nobel Prize in Literature.
December 28; At least three people die after a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Aomori and Iwate prefectures.




Births



January 13 – Yuma Nakayama, actor and singer
January 29 – Ayane Sakura, voice actress
February 5 – Saki Nakajima, singer
February 24 – Kōta Nakagawa, professional baseball pitcher
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
July 5 – Shohei Ohtani, baseball player
August 1 – Ayaka Wada,
August 4 – Mayuko Fukuda, Japanese actress
August 16 – Riho Takada, actress and model
August 17 – Tasuku Hatanaka, actor and voice actor
September 1 – Haruka Miyashita, volleyball player
September 7 – Kento Yamazaki, actor and model
September 21 – Fumi Nikaidō, actress and fashion model
October 13 – Yuta Watanabe, basketball player
October 30 – Miyū Tsuzurahara, voice actress and child actress
November 7 – Haruna Iikubo, singer
November 9 – Kōji Chikamoto, professional baseball player
November 10 – Takuma Asano, 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)
September 23 – Masako Kyōzuka, actress (b. 1930)
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




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