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Incumbents

Emperor: Hirohito
Prime Minister: Noboru Takeshita (L–Shimane)
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Keizo Obuchi (L–Gunma)
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Kōichi Yaguchi
President of the House of Representatives: Kenzaburō Hara (L–Hyōgo)
President of the House of Councillors: Masaaki Fujita (L–Hiroshima) until September 30, Yoshihiko Tsuchiya (L–Saitama)
Diet sessions: 112th (regular session opened in December 1987, until May 25), 113th (extraordinary, July 19 to December 28), 114th (regular, December 30 to 1989, June 22)

Events

March 13: Seikan Tunnel opens, connecting Hokkaido and Honshu by rail for the first time.
March 17: Tokyo Dome completed.
April 4 and 5: Rock band Boøwy hold their last concert in Tokyo Dome and break up.
April 10: Great Seto Bridge opens.
April 16: Studio Ghibli films My Neighbor Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies are released simultaneously.
June 18: Asahi Shimbun breaks the Recruit scandal.
July 16: The anime film Akira is released.
July 23: A sports fishing boat, Fuji Maru No. 1, collides with a submarine, Nadashio, in Tokyo Bay, resulting in the former sinking and 30 deaths as well as 17 injuries.^[1]
September 14: Daiei purchases the Nankai Hawks baseball team: they become the Fukuoka Daiei Hawks.
October 3: Anpanman premieres on Nippon TV.
October 19: Orix purchases the Hankyu Braves baseball team: they become the Orix Braves.
October 23: Super Mario Bros. 3 is released for the Famicom, a slightly modified version is released for the NES in February 1990.
December 9: Finance Minister Kiichi Miyazawa resigns amid the Recruit scandal.
December 27: Takeshita announces a realigned cabinet.

Births

January 1: Saori Hara, AV idol, model, and actress
January 8: Ryuichi Dogaki, football player
January 28: Seiya Sanada, wrestler
February 5: Ayaka Noda, gravure idol
February 7: Ai Kago, performer
February 8: Nozomi Sasaki, glamour model
February 12: Nana Eikura, model, actress, and occasional radio show host
February 19: Miyu Irino, voice actor
February 26: Hitomi Niiya, long-distance runner
March 11: Katsuhiko Nakajima, professional wrestler
March 22: Noriko Kijima, gravure idol and actress
March 27: Atsuto Uchida, footballer
April 5: Asumi Nakata, child model and voice actress
April 19: Haruna Kojima, singer, actress and idol
May 1: Takeshi Suzuki, alpine skier
May 18: Tatsuma Ito, tennis player
May 26: Akito Watabe, Nordic combined skier
May 28: Meisa Kuroki, actress, model, and singer
June 1: Nami Tamaki, singer
June 11: Yui Aragaki, model, actress and singer
June 22: Miliyah Kato, pop and urban singer-songwriter
June 26: Rina Nakanishi, AV idol and former idol singer
June 28
- Gaku Hamada, film and television actor
- Kanon Wakeshima, singer and cellist
July 26: Sayaka Akimoto, singer, actress and idol
August 17: Erika Toda, actress
September 2: Keisuke Kato, actor and entertainer
September 7: Daiki Sato, footballer (died 2010)
September 13: Nobuyuki Tsujii, pianist and composer
September 18: Yuichi Sugita, tennis player
September 20: Chiaki Satō, actress
September 29: Osama Elsamni, football player
October 6: Maki Horikita, actress and endorser
October 17: Yuko Oshima, idol, singer and actress
October 20: Risa Niigaki, J-pop singer
November 1: Ai Fukuhara, table tennis player
November 7: Kim Chae-Hwa, figure skater
November 8: Honami Tajima, actress
November 26: Yumi Kobayashi, fashion model
December 19: Mami Matsuyama, idol
December 23: Eri Kamei, J-pop singer
December 26: Kayo Satoh, model and television personality
December 28: Yuya Toyoda, actor and entertainer

Deaths

January 2: Yukio Kasahara, general
March 1: Yoshi Kato, film actor
April 10: Shigeo Sugiura, freestyle swimmer and Olympic gold medalist
May 23: Aya Kitō, writer
June 14: Prince Kan'in Haruhito, career officer
August 4: Toshio Doko, business leader
November 4: Takeo Miki, former prime minister
November 23: Kenzō Masaoka, anime creator
December 30: Takeo Fujisawa, businessman, co-founder of Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Statistics

Yen value: US$1 = ¥122 (low) to ¥135 (high)

References

↑ "Ill-fated sub Nadashio sails off to scrap yard". The Japan Times. Kyodo. 2 June 2001. Retrieved 5 January 2015.

Years in Japan (1868–present)

Meiji period (1868–1912)

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Taishō period (1912–1926)

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Shōwa period (1926–1989)

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Heisei period (1989–present)

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1988 in Asia

Sovereign states	Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China Cyprus East Timor (Timor-Leste) Egypt Georgia India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen

States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Taiwan

Dependencies and other territories	British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong Macau

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