1994 in Japan

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Incumbents

Emperor: Akihito
Prime Minister: Morihiro Hosokawa (JNP–Kumamoto) to April 28 Tsutomu Hata (JRP–Nagano) to June 30 Tomiichi Murayama (S–Ōita)
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Masayoshi Takemura (NPH–Shiga) to April 28 Hiroshi Kumagai (JRP–Shizuoka) to June 30 Kōzō Igarashi (S–Hokkaidō)
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Ryōhachi Kusaba
President of the House of Representatives: Takako Doi (S–Hyōgo)
President of the House of Councillors: Bunbē Hara (L–Tokyo)
Diet sessions: 129th (regular, January 31 to June 29) 130th (extraordinary, July 18 to July 22) 131st (extraordinary, September 30 to December 9)^[1]

April 25 – The Shinjuku Park Tower, designed by Kenzo Tange and featured in the film Lost in Translation, is completed.
April 26 – China Airlines Flight 140, an Airbus A300, crashes while landing at Nagoya Airfield, killing 264 people.
June 28 – Members of the Aum Shinrikyo cult execute the first sarin gas attack at Matsumoto, Japan, killing 8 and injuring 200.
August – The office of the Prime Minister establishes a website.
- August 2 – While riding a moped, Takeshi Kitano is involved in a collision with a car in Shinjuku and is seriously injured.
September 4 – Kansai International Airport in Osaka, Japan opens. All international services are transferred from Itami to Kansai.
October 2 - October 16 – The Asian Games are held in Hiroshima.^[2]
October 13 – Kenzaburo Oe receives the Nobel Prize in Literature.

January 13 – Yuma Nakayama, actor and singer
January 29 – Ayane Sakura, voice actress
February 5 – Saki Nakajima, singer
March 26 – Mayu Watanabe, singer
April 4 – Risako Sugaya, singer
April 12 – Airi Suzuki, singer
June 15 – Rina Hidaka, voice actress
June 21 – Chisato Okai, singer
August 17 – Tasuku Hatanaka, actor and voice actor
October 30 – Miyū Tsuzurahara, voice actress and child actress
November 7 – Haruna Iikubo, singer
November 17 – Naoki Maeda, footballer
December 7 – Yuzuru Hanyu, figure skater
December 29 – Princess Kako of Akishino, Princess and daughter of Prince Akishino and Princess Akishino

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)

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

1994 in Asia

Sovereign states	Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Burma (Myanmar) 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 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