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{{Year in Japan|1998}}
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Events in the year '''[[1998]] in [[Japan]]'''.
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* [[1998|Other events of 1998]]
* [[History of Japan]]
* [[Timeline of Japanese history|Timeline]]
* [[List of years in Japan|Years]]
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Events in the year '''[[1998]] in [[Japan]]'''. It corresponds to the year [[Heisei]] [[10]] (平成10年) in the [[Japanese calendar]].


==Incumbents==
==Incumbents==
* [[Emperor of Japan|Emperor]]: [[Akihito]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Akihito {{!}} Biography, Reign, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Akihito |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=27 March 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[Emperor of Japan|Emperor]]: [[Akihito]]
* [[Prime Minister of Japan|Prime Minister]]: [[Ryutaro Hashimoto]], [[Keizo Obuchi]]
* [[Prime Minister of Japan|Prime Minister]]: [[Ryutaro Hashimoto]] ([[Liberal Democratic Party (Japan)|L]]–Okayama) until July 30, [[Keizo Obuchi]] (L–Gunma)
* [[Chief Cabinet Secretary]]: [[Kanezo Muraoka]], [[Hiromu Nonaka]]
* [[Chief Cabinet Secretary]]: [[Kanezō Muraoka]] (L–Akita) until July 30, [[Hiromu Nonaka]] (L–Kyōto)
* Chief Justice of the [[Supreme Court of Japan|Supreme Court]]: [[Shigeru Yamaguchi]]
* President of the [[House of Representatives of Japan|House of Representatives]]: [[Sōichirō Itō]] (L–Miyagi)
* President of the [[House of Councillors]]: [[Jūrō Saitō]] (L–Mie) until July 25 and again from August 4
* [[Diet of Japan|Diet]] sessions: 142nd (regular, January 12 to June 18), 143rd (extraordinary, August 7 to October 16), 144th (extraordinary, November 27 to December 14)

===Governors===
*[[List of governors of Aichi Prefecture|Aichi Prefecture]]: [[Reiji Suzuki]]
*Akita Prefecture: [[Sukeshiro Terata]]
*Aomori Prefecture: [[Morio Kimura]]
*Chiba Prefecture: [[Takeshi Numata]]
*Ehime Prefecture: [[Sadayuki Iga]]
*Fukui Prefecture: [[Yukio Kurita]]
*Fukuoka Prefecture: [[Wataru Asō]]
*Fukushima Prefecture: [[Eisaku Satō]]
*Gifu Prefecture: [[Taku Kajiwara]]
*Gunma Prefecture: [[Hiroyuki Kodera]]
*[[Governors of Hiroshima Prefecture|Hiroshima Prefecture]]: [[Yūzan Fujita]]
*[[Governor of Hokkaido|Hokkaido]]: [[Tatsuya Hori]]
*Hyogo Prefecture: [[Toshitami Kaihara]]
*[[List of governors of Ibaraki Prefecture|Ibaraki Prefecture]]: [[Masaru Hashimoto]]
*[[List of governors of Ishikawa Prefecture|Ishikawa Prefecture]]: [[Masanori Tanimoto]]
*Iwate Prefecture: [[Hiroya Masuda]]
*Kagawa Prefecture: [[Jōichi Hirai]] (until 4 September); [[Takeki Manabe]] (starting 5 September)
*Kagoshima Prefecture: [[Tatsurō Suga]]
*[[List of governors of Kanagawa Prefecture|Kanagawa Prefecture]]: [[Hiroshi Okazaki]]
*Kochi Prefecture: [[Daijiro Hashimoto]]
*[[List of governors of Kumamoto Prefecture|Kumamoto Prefecture]]: [[Joji Fukushima]]
*[[List of governors of Kyoto Prefecture|Kyoto Prefecture]]: [[Teiichi Aramaki]]
*Mie Prefecture: [[Masayasu Kitagawa]]
*[[List of governors of Miyagi Prefecture|Miyagi Prefecture]]: [[Shirō Asano (politician)|Shirō Asano]]
*Miyazaki Prefecture: [[Suketaka Matsukata]]
*[[List of governors of Nagano Prefecture|Nagano Prefecture]]: [[Gorō Yoshimura]]
*Nagasaki Prefecture: [[Isamu Takada]] (until 1 March); [[Genjirō Kaneko]] (starting 2 March)
*Nara Prefecture: [[Yoshiya Kakimoto]]
*[[List of governors of Niigata Prefecture|Niigata Prefecture]]: [[Ikuo Hirayama]]
*Oita Prefecture: [[Morihiko Hiramatsu]]
*[[List of governors of Okayama Prefecture|Okayama Prefecture]]: [[Masahiro Ishii]]
*[[Governor of Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa Prefecture]]: [[Masahide Ōta]] (until 10 December); [[Keiichi Inamine]] (starting 10 December)
*[[List of governors of Osaka|Osaka Prefecture]]: [[Knock Yokoyama]]
*[[List of governors of Saga Prefecture|Saga Prefecture]]: [[Isamu Imoto]]
*[[List of governors of Saitama Prefecture|Saitama Prefecture]]: [[Yoshihiko Tsuchiya]]
*[[List of governors of Shiga Prefecture|Shiga Prefecture]]: [[Minoru Inaba]] (until 20 July); [[Yoshitsugu Kunimatsu]] (starting 20 July)
*Shiname Prefecture: [[Nobuyoshi Sumita]]
*Shizuoka Prefecture: [[Yoshinobu Ishikawa]]
*Tochigi Prefecture: [[Fumio Watanabe]]
*Tokushima Prefecture: [[Toshio Endo]]
*[[Governor of Tokyo|Tokyo]]: [[Yukio Aoshima]]
*Tottori Prefecture: [[Yuji Nishio]]
*Toyama Prefecture: [[Yutaka Nakaoki]]
*Wakayama Prefecture: [[Isamu Nishiguchi]]
*Yamagata Prefecture: [[Kazuo Takahashi]]
*Yamaguchi Prefecture: [[Sekinari Nii]]
*Yamanashi Prefecture: [[Ken Amano]]


==Events==
==Events==
* February 7 – February 22: The [[1998 Winter Olympics]] are held in [[Nagano, Nagano|Nagano]].<ref name=Bell>{{cite book |last1=Bell |first1=Daniel |title=Encyclopedia of International Games |date=17 March 2016 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-1527-1 |page=519 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gjPECwAAQBAJ&pg=PA519 |language=en}}</ref>
* February 7–February 22 - The [[1998 Winter Olympics]] are held in [[Nagano]].
* March 5 – March 14: The [[1998 Winter Paralympics]] are held in Nagano.<ref name=Bell />
* April 5 - The [[Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge]] linking [[Shikoku]] with [[Honshū]] and costing about [[Yen|¥]] 500 billion, opens to traffic, becoming the largest [[suspension bridge]] in the world.
* April 1: [[Toyota City]], [[Fukuyama City]], [[Kōchi, Kōchi|Kōchi City]] and [[Miyazaki City]] become [[Core cities of Japan|core cities]].
* July 5 - [[Japan]] launches the [[Nozomi (probe)|Nozomi]] probe to [[Mars]], joining the [[United States]] and [[Russia]] as an [[outer space]]-exploring nation.
* April 5: The [[Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge]] linking [[Shikoku]] with [[Honshū]] and costing about [[Yen|¥]] 500 billion (US$3.8 billion), opens to traffic, becoming the largest [[suspension bridge]] in the world.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://highways.dot.gov/public-roads/julyaugust-1998/worlds-longest-suspension-bridge-opens-japan |title=Public Roads - World's Longest Suspension Bridge Opens in Japan , July/August 1998 |publisher=Fhwa.dot.gov |access-date=2016-04-08}}</ref>
* July 25 - [[Masumi Hayashi (poisoner)|Masumi Hayashi]] poisons a curry poy at a festival in [[Wakayama, Wakayama|Wakayama]] causing the death of two adults and two children.
* May 26: Takashi Imai is inaugurated as the 9th head of the [[Keidanren]].
* October 8 - [[Japan-South Korea Joint Declaration of 1998]]
* June 22: [[Financial Services Agency]] established.
* November 26 - [[Japan-China Joint Declaration On Building a Partnership of Friendship and Cooperation for Peace and Development]]
* July 5: Japan launches the [[Nozomi (probe)|Nozomi]] probe to [[Mars]], joining the [[United States]] and [[Russia]] as an [[outer space]]-exploring nation.
* July 12: [[1998 Japanese House of Councillors election|Election for the House of Councillors]] held.
* July 25: [[Masumi Hayashi (poisoner)|Masumi Hayashi]] poisons a curry pot at a festival in [[Wakayama, Wakayama|Wakayama]], causing the death of two adults and two children.
* September 3: ''[[MGS1|Metal Gear Solid]]'' is first released for the [[PlayStation (console)|PS1]] in Japan.
* September 7: ''[[Serial Experiments Lain|Serial Experiments Lain Episode 10 : LOVE ]]'' is released in Japan.
* September 22 &ndash; 23: [[Typhoon Vicki (1998)|Typhoon Vivki]] causes damage to several cultural heritage sites in [[Wakayama Prefecture|Wakayama]], [[Nara Prefecture|Nara]], [[Kyoto Prefecture|Kyoto]] and [[Shiga Prefecture]] and causing 19 deaths.{{citation needed|date=February 2020}}
* October 8: [[Japan-South Korea Joint Declaration of 1998]].
* November 13: [[Free solo climbing|Free solo climber]] [[Alain Robert]] scales the [[Shinjuku Center Building]] and is arrested on its roof.
* November 26: [[Japan-China Joint Declaration On Building a Partnership of Friendship and Cooperation for Peace and Development]].
* December 18: [[Mario Party (video game)|Mario Party]] is released in Japan.


==Births==
==Births==
* January 5 - [[Marie Iitoyo]], model and actress
* January 23 - [[Yuto Adachi]], singer and member of South Korean boy band [[Pentagon (South Korean band)|Pentagon]]
* February 8 - [[Rui Hachimura]], basketball player
* March 19 - [[Sakura Miyawaki]], singer and member of South Korean girl group [[Le Sserafim]]
* March 26 - [[Satoko Miyahara]], figure skater
* April 6 - [[Rina Katsuta]], singer
* April 10 - [[Airi Kinoshita]], murder victim (d. [[2005 in Japan|2005]])
* April 10 - [[Airi Kinoshita]], murder victim (d. [[2005 in Japan|2005]])
* April 28 - [[Manamo Miyata]], singer and member of [[Hinatazaka46]]
* May 13 - [[Karen Iwata]], singer and voice actress
* May 28 - [[Riho Sayashi]], J-pop singer
* May 31 - [[Ryang Hyon-ju]], [[Demographics of North Korea|North Korean]], footballer
* June 14 - [[Taishi Nakagawa]], actor and model
* June 19 - [[Suzu Hirose]], model and actress
* July 9 - [[Tiger Onitsuka]], jazz drummer
* July 9 - [[Tiger Onitsuka]], jazz drummer
* July 16 - [[Rina Matsuno]], singer (d. [[2017 in Japan|2017]])
* July 17 - Shione Sawada, actress
* July 26 - [[Maya Sakura]], singer
* July 26 - [[Maya Sakura]], singer
* December 9 - [[Mika Dela Cruz]], actress
* July 27 - [[Risa Watanabe]], idol and model
* August 5 - [[Kanon Suzuki]], singer
* August 17 - [[Yoshinobu Yamamoto]], professional baseball player
* August 28 - [[Haruka Fukuhara]], actress, model and singer
* October 30 - [[Meimi Tamura]], singer and actress
* November 12 - [[Yuna Taira]], actress
* November 29 - [[Ayumu Hirano]], snowboarder
* December 24 - [[Keito Tsuna]], actor
* December 30 - [[Akari Uemura]], pop singer


==Deaths==
==Deaths==
* January 9 - [[Kenichi Fukui]], Japanese chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1918)
* January 9 &ndash; [[Kenichi Fukui]], Japanese chemist, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (b. 1918)
* January 27 - [[Tamio Kageyama]], novelist (b. 1947)
* January 21 &ndash; [[Yoshifumi Kondō]], animator (b. 1950)
* January 28 - [[Shotaro Ishinomori]], Manga artist, "Father of [[Henshin]] heroes." (b. 1938)
* January 26 &ndash; [[Shinichi Suzuki (violinist)|Shinichi Suzuki]], violinist (b. 1898)
* March 10 - [[Kenkō Satoshi]], Sumo wrestler (b. 1967)
* January 27 &ndash; [[Tamio Kageyama]], novelist (b. 1947)
* January 28 &ndash; [[Shotaro Ishinomori]], Manga artist, "Father of Henshin heroes." (b. 1938)
* March 13 - [[Kosho Uchiyama]], Sōtō priest (b. 1912)
* February 5 &ndash; [[Takahashi Chikuzan]], [[Tsugaru-jamisen]] performer and composer (b. 1910)
* April 20 - [[Yoshio Inaba]], actor (b. 1920)
* March 10 &ndash; [[Kenkō Satoshi]], Sumo wrestler (b. 1967)
* May 2 - [[Hide (musician)|Matsumoto Hideto]] (hide), Japanese musician (b. 1964)
* May 19 - [[Sosuke Uno]], [[Prime Minister of Japan|Prime Minister]] (b. 1922)
* March 13 &ndash; [[Kosho Uchiyama]], [[Sōtō]] priest (b. 1912)
* August 3 - [[Reizo Koike]], breaststroke swimmer (b. 1915)
* April 20 &ndash; [[Yoshio Inaba]], actor (b. 1920)
* May 2 &ndash; [[Hide (musician)|Matsumoto Hideto]] (hide), Japanese musician (b. 1964)
* August 28 - [[Hirokazu Kobayashi (aikidoka)|Hirokazu Kobayashi]], aikidoka (b. 1929)
* September 6 - [[Akira Kurosawa]], screenwriter, producer, and director (b. 1910)
* May 10 &ndash; [[Nekojiru]], manga artist (b. 1967)
* May 19 &ndash; [[Sōsuke Uno]], [[Prime Minister of Japan|Prime Minister]] (b. 1922)
* September 27 - [[Narita Bryan]], racehorse (b. 1991)
* August 3 &ndash; [[Reizo Koike]], breaststroke swimmer (b. 1915)
* October 12 - [[Ineko Sata]], communist and feminist author of proletarian literature (b. 1904)
* August 28 &ndash; [[Hirokazu Kobayashi (aikidoka)|Hirokazu Kobayashi]], [[aikidoka]] (b. 1929)
* November 1 - [[Silence Suzuka]], racehorse (b. 1994)
* November 5 - [[Momoko Kōchi]], actress (b. 1932)
* September 6 &ndash; [[Akira Kurosawa]], screenwriter, producer, and director (b. 1910)
* November 18 - Tase Matsunaga, supercentenarian (b. 1884)
* September 27 &ndash; [[Narita Bryan]], racehorse (b. 1991)
* October 12 &ndash; [[Ineko Sata]], communist and feminist author of [[proletarian literature]] (b. 1904)
* December 1 - [[Shōji Nakayama]], actor (b. 1928)
* December 2 - [[Mikio Oda]], athlete (b. 1905)
* November 1 &ndash; [[Silence Suzuka]], racehorse (b. 1994)
* November 5 &ndash; [[Momoko Kōchi]], actress (b. 1932)
* December 1 &ndash; [[Shōji Nakayama]], actor (b. 1928)
* December 2 &ndash; [[Mikio Oda]], athlete (b. 1905)
* December 30 &ndash; [[Keisuke Kinoshita]], film director (b. 1912)


==See also==
* [[1998 in Japanese television]]
* [[List of Japanese films of 1998]]


==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Japan year nav}}
{{Japan year nav}}
{{Year in Asia|1998}}


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  1. ^ "Akihito | Biography, Reign, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
  2. ^ a b Bell, Daniel (17 March 2016). Encyclopedia of International Games. McFarland. p. 519. ISBN 978-1-4766-1527-1.
  3. ^ "Public Roads - World's Longest Suspension Bridge Opens in Japan , July/August 1998". Fhwa.dot.gov. Retrieved 2016-04-08.
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