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Events in the year 1995 in Heisei 7 (平成7年) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
- Emperor: Akihito[1]
- S–Ōita)
- Kōzō Igarashi (S–Hokkaidō) until August 8, Kōken Nosaka(S–Tottori)
- Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Ryōhachi Kusaba until November 7, Tōru Miyoshi
- President of the House of Representatives: Takako Doi(S–Hyōgo)
- President of the House of Councillors: Bunbē Hara (L–Tokyo) until July 22, Jūrō Saitō (L–Mie) from August 4
- Dietsessions: 132nd (regular, January 20 to June 18), 133rd (extraordinary, August 4 to August 8), 134th (extraordinary, September 29 to December 15)
Governors
- Aichi Prefecture: Reiji Suzuki
- Akita Prefecture: Kikuji Sasaki
- Aomori Prefecture: Masaya Kitamura (until 26 February); Morio Kimura (starting 26 February)
- Chiba Prefecture: Takeshi Numata
- Ehime Prefecture: Sadayuki Iga
- Fukui Prefecture: Yukio Kurita
- Fukuoka Prefecture: Hachiji Okuda (until 22 April); Wataru Asō (starting 23 April)
- Fukushima Prefecture: Eisaku Satō
- Gifu Prefecture: Taku Kajiwara
- Gunma Prefecture: Hiroyuki Kodera
- Hiroshima Prefecture: Yūzan Fujita
- Hokkaido: Takahiro Yokomichi (until 22 April); Tatsuya Hori(starting 22 April)
- Hyogo Prefecture: Toshitami Kaihara
- Ibaraki Prefecture: Masaru Hashimoto
- Ishikawa Prefecture: Masanori Tanimoto
- Iwate Prefecture: Iwao Kudō (until 29 April); Hiroya Masuda (starting 30 April)
- Kagawa Prefecture: Jōichi Hirai
- Kagoshima Prefecture: Yoshiteru Tsuchiya
- Kanagawa Prefecture: Kazuji Nagasu (until 22 April); Hiroshi Okazaki (starting 23 April)
- Kochi Prefecture: Daijiro Hashimoto
- Kumamoto Prefecture: Joji Fukushima
- Kyoto Prefecture: Teiichi Aramaki
- Mie Prefecture: Ryōzō Tagawa (until 20 April); Masayasu Kitagawa (starting 21 April)
- 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 (until 22 April); Knock Yokoyama(starting 23 April)
- 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 (until 23 April); Yukio Aoshima (starting 23 April)
- Tottori Prefecture: Yuji Nishio
- Toyama Prefecture: Yutaka Nakaoki
- Wakayama Prefecture: Shirō Kariya (until 22 November); Isamu Nishiguchi (starting 23 November)
- Yamagata Prefecture: Kazuo Takahashi
- Yamaguchi Prefecture: Toru Hirai
- Yamanashi Prefecture: Ken Amano
Events
Sarin gas attack
.- January 17 – The 6.9 Mw Great Hanshin earthquake shakes the southern Hyōgo Prefecture with a maximum Shindo of VII, leaving 5,502–6,434 people dead, and 251,301–310,000 displaced.
- February 21 – An MSDF helicopter falls into the Bungo Channel, causing 11 deaths.
- Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, killing 12 and injuring more than 6,000.
- March 30 – A police officer tries to assassinate Takaji Kunimatsu, Commissioner General of the National Police Agency, outside his home in Arakawa Ward, Tokyo.
- Tokyo and Osakarespectively.
- May 16 - Japanese police besiege the headquarters of Aum Shinrikyo in Kamikuishiki, Yamanashi Prefecture at the foot of Mount Fuji and arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara.
- Boeing 747-200) at Hakodate airport. The hijacker, Fumio Kutsumi, was armed with a screw driver and demanded the release of Shoko Asahara.[2]
- Japanese Socialist Party as the second largest political party in Japan, and entered coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party. The Socialists lost many seats in this election.
- Hachioji, Tokyosupermarket, three female employees are killed.
- Okinawa kidnap and gang rape a 12-year-old Japanese girl. The incident led to further debate over the continued presence of U.S. forces in Japan.
- mini SUV.
- APEC summit held in Osaka, the first in Japan.
Births
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- January 16 - Takumi Minamino, footballer
- January 24 - Yū Wakui, Japanese voice actor
- January 25 - Masaya Matsumoto, footballer
- January 26 – Seiya Matsubara, professional baseball player
- January 30 - Misaki Iwasa, singer
- February 3 - Tao Tsuchiya, actress
- February 8 - Naoki Yoshikawa, professional baseball player
- February 10 - Haruna Kawaguchi, actress and model
- February 12
- Ryuju Hino, figure skater
- Rina Kawaei, singer
- February 13 - Ayame Koike, actress
- February 16
- Nikki Havenaar, footballer
- Mayu Matsuoka, actress
- March 6 - Aimyon, singer-songwriter
- March 7 - Fuma Kikuchi, actor, dancer and singer
- March 10 - Yui Sakuma, model and actress
- March 11 - Kazuki Fukai, footballer
- Kanon Fukuda, singer and voice actress
- March 13 - Ryutarou Akimoto, actor and model
- March 15 - Momoka Ariyasu, singer
- March 17 - Akari Hayami, actress, model and singer
- March 28 - Kouji Miura, manga artist
- Ryutaro Morimoto, singer
- April 14 - Yukiko Fujisawa, figure skater
- June 2 - Evelyn Mawuli, basketball player
- June 4 - Shiori Tamai, singer
- June 8 - Akari Saho, musician
- June 9 - Shintaro Yokota, baseball player (d. 2023)
- June 12 - Mao Murakami, dancer
- June 17 - Aoi Morikawa, actress and model
- July 2 - Tomoko Kanazawa, pop singer
- July 30 - Yuhi, wrestler
- August 8 - Miyabi Oba, figure skater
- August 15 - Yui Ogura, actress, pop idol and singer
- August 24 - Anna Doi, sprinter
- September 12 - Kako Tomotaki, figure skater
- September 14 - Kazuto Taguchi, professional baseball player
- September 22
- Ai Hazuki, actress
- Taisuke Yamaoka, professional baseball player
- September 23 - Aimi Kobayashi, pianist
- October 26 - Yuta Nakamoto, pop idol and singer
- October 29 - Taku Hiraoka, snowboarder
- November 2 - Rei Takahashi, professional baseball player
- November 7 - Runa Natsui, actress
- Asuka Teramoto, gymnast
- December 2 - Inori Minase, actress, voice actress and singer
- December 3 - Anna Iriyama, singer
- December 15 - Yoshihide Kiryū, track and field sprinter
- December 29 - Rina Ikoma, singer
Deaths
- February 24
- Tatsumi Kumashiro, film director (b. 1927)
- Hideko Maehata, swimmer (b. 1914)
- March 19 – Yasuo Yamada, voice actor (b. 1932)
- July 5 – Takeo Fukuda, politician (b. 1905)
- August 25 – Setsuko, Princess Chichibu, wife of Prince Chichibu (b. 1909)
- September 25 – Kei Tomiyama, actor, voice actor and narrator (b. 1938)
- November 26 – Toshia Mori, actress (b. 1912)
- December 20 – Masako Katsura, billiards player (b. 1913)
See also
References
- ^ "Akihito | Biography, Reign, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- ^ a b "Criminal Acts against Civil Aviation" (PDF). U.S. Department of Transportation - Office of Civil Aviation Security. 1995.
- ^ "Tokyo Governor Kills 'World City' Project". Reuters. 1 June 1995. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
