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Decades:

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Incumbents

Emperor: Akihito
Prime Minister: Tomiichi Murayama (S–Ōita) until January 11, Ryūtarō Hashimoto (L–Okayama)
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Kōken Nosaka (S–Tottori) until January 11, Seiroku Kajiyama (L–Ibaraki)
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Tōru Miyoshi
President of the House of Representatives: Takako Doi (S–Hyōgo) until September 27 (dissolution), Sōichirō Itō (L–Miyagi) from November 7
President of the House of Councillors: Jūrō Saitō (L–Mie)
Diet sessions: 135th (extraordinary, January 11 to January 13), 136th (regular, January 22 to June 19), 137th (extraordinary, September 27, HR dissolved on same day), 138th (special, November 7 to November 12), 139th (extraordinary, November 29 to December 18)

Events

January 11 – Ryutaro Hashimoto, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, becomes Prime Minister.
February 10 – A boulder falls onto the Toyohama Tunnel in Furubira, Hokkaido, crushing a bus and several cars and resulting in 20 fatalities.^[1]
February 27 – Pokémon Red and Green was released in Japan as the first game in the Pokémon series.
April 1 - Tokyo Big Sight opens.
June 13 - Garuda Indonesia Flight 865 crashes on takeoff from Fukuoka Airport, resulting in three fatalities.^[2]
June 23 - The Nintendo 64 video game system is released in Japan.
June 25 - A train on the Takayama Main Line collides with a fallen boulder, resulting in 16 injuries.
July 16 – An outbreak of E. coli food poisoning in Sakai City resulted in 6309 schoolchildren and 92 school staff members from 62 municipal elementary schools falling ill.^[3]
August 8 - Tokyo Opera City Tower is completed.
November 26 - Tamagotchi is released.

Fashion and Rebellion

In the 1990s in Japan, we begin to see an influx of growth in the fashion community. The infamous Harajuku style, as well as the birth of a popular style known as Gyaru. Both fashion styles as well as the many sub groups of fashion in Japan, were built due to the idea that most youth in Japan were tired of being conformed into one look. We begin to see Japan break away from the idea of being a country built on tradition and monotony, and branch into what it has come today; a colorful and vibrant place.

Births

January 12 - Ai Hashimoto, actress and fashion model
February 7 - Mai Hagiwara, singer
April 3 - Mayo Hibi, tennis player
May 17 - Kazato Tomizawa, actor and voice actor
May 18 - Yuki Kadono, snowboarder
May 21 - Sarina Koga, volleyball player
May 28 - Ayano Kudo, model and actress
June 5 - Yuya Ozeki, actor
June 11
- Naoki Maeda (born 1996), footballer
- Ayaka Sasaki, singer
July 5 - Risa Shoji, figure skater
August 24 - Kenzo Shirai, gymnast
September 6 - Rika Hongo, figure skater
September 12 - Nakamura Umemaru, actor
October 8 - Sara Takanashi, ski jumper
October 30 - Mizuki Fukumura, singer
November 15 - Kanako Watanabe, swimmer
November 18 - Saki Ogawa, former singer
December 12 - Karen Miyama, actress
December 13 - Miu Sato, figure skater

Deaths

January 7 - Tarō Okamoto, artist
January 8 - Michiya Mihashi, enka singer
February 12 - Ryōtarō Shiba, writer
February 20 - Tōru Takemitsu, composer
May 11 - Yasuko Namba, summited the Seven Summits
June 6 - Kusuo Kitamura, Olympic swimmer
July 30 - Arihiro Hase, actor and voice actor
September 23 - Fujiko F. Fujio, cartoonist

References

Years in Japan (1868–present)

Meiji period (1868–1912)

1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912

Taishō period (1912–1926)

1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926

Shōwa period (1926–1989)

1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989

Heisei period (1989–present)

1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022

1996 in Asia

Sovereign states	Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Burma (Myanmar) Cambodia China Cyprus Egypt Georgia India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia 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 Republic Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Taiwan

Dependencies, colonies and other territories	British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands

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