1995 in Japan

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Emperor: Akihito
Prime Minister: Tomiichi Murayama (S–Ōita)
Chief Cabinet Secretary: 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
Diet sessions: 132nd (regular, January 20 to June 18), 133rd (extraordinary, August 4 to August 8), 134th (extraordinary, September 29 to December 15)

January 17 – A magnitude 6.8 earthquake called the "Great Hanshin earthquake" occurs near Kobe, Japan, causing great property damage and killing 6,434 people.
February 21 – An MSDF helicopter falls into the Bungo Channel, causing 11 deaths.
March 20 - Aum Shinrikyo release sarin gas on the Tokyo subway, killing 13 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.
April 9 - In a series of gubernatorial elections held across Japan, Yukio Aoshima and Knock Yokoyama become governors of Tokyo and Osaka respectively.
May 12 – A bomb goes off in a men's public lavatory on the third floor of the Terminal 2 building of New Tokyo International Airport, Narita.^[1]
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.
June 22 – Japanese police rescue 365 hostages from a hijacked All Nippon Airways Flight 857 (Boeing 747-200) at Hakodate airport. The hijacker, Fumio Kutsumi, was armed with a screw driver and demanded the release of Shoko Asahara.^[2]
July 27 - House of Councillors election held.
July 30 – During an armed robbery at a Hachioji, Tokyo supermarket, three female employees are killed.
November 18 - November 19 - APEC summit held in Osaka, the first in Japan.

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

1995 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