1987 in Japan

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1987 was the 62nd year of Showa in Japan. It was the second year of the Japanese asset price bubble: land values in Tokyo rose more than 85 percent between July 1986 and July 1987.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Statistics

[edit] Incumbents

• Emperor: Hirohito
• Prime Minister: Yasuhiro Nakasone, Noboru Takeshita

[edit] Events

• February 9: First public float of NTT.
• April 1: Japanese National Railways are privatized and become the Japan Railways Group companies.
• November 6: Noboru Takeshita becomes prime minister.

During 1987:

• NTT began the first mobile phone service in Japan.
• Shoko Asahara founded Aum Shinrikyo.
• Construction began on Kansai International Airport.
• Susumu Tonegawa won the Nobel Prize for Physics.

[edit] Births

• March 26: Yui, singer
• June 3: Masami Nagasawa, actress
• June 17: Nozomi Tsuji, performer
• December 18: Miki Ando, figure skater
• December 18: Ayaka, singer

[edit] Deaths

• February 3: Prince Takamatsu
• July 17: Yujiro Ishihara, actor
• August 7: Nobusuke Kishi, former prime minister

[edit] Statistics

• Yen value: US$1 = ¥122 (low) to ¥152 (high)