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Incumbents

Emperor: Akihito
Prime Minister: Toshiki Kaifu (L–Aichi)
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Mayumi Moriyama (Councillor, L–Tochigi) until February 28, Misoji Sakamoto (L–Ishikawa)
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Kōichi Yaguchi until February 19, Ryōhachi Kusaba from February 20
President of the House of Representatives: Hajime Tamura (L–Mie) until January 24, Yoshio Sakurauchi (L–Shimane) from February 27
President of the House of Councillors: Yoshihiko Tsuchiya (L–Saitama)
Diet sessions: 117th (regular session opened in December 1989, to January 24), 118th (special, February 27 to June 26), 119th (extraordinary, October 12 to November 10), 120th (regular, December 10 to 1991, May 8)

Events

February 18: Elections for the House of Representatives.
February 28: Second Kaifu cabinet formed.
March 10: Keiyo Line opens between Tokyo and Chiba.
April 1: International Flower Exposition opens in Osaka.
June 29: Fumihito, Prince Akishino, second son of Emperor Akihito, weds Kiko Kawashima.
August 13: Orix Braves baseball team announces that it will move to Kobe and become the Orix Blue Wave.
November 12: Akihito is enthroned as Emperor of Japan.
November 21: Nintendo releases its second video game console, the Super Famicom, in Japan.
December 29: Kaifu cabinet reshuffled.

Births

January 24: Mao Abe, singer-songwriter
January 31: Kota Yabu singer and actor
February 4: Haruka Tomatsu, voice actress
February 15: Masashi Ebinuma, judoka
March 26: Yuya Takaki, actor and singer
April 5: Haruma Miura, actor and singer
April 16: Risa Honma, idol
June 15: Miwa, singer
June 22: Kei Inoo, singer and actor
June 29: Sayuri Sugawara, singer
July 3: Nana Iwasaka, volleyball player
July 21: Sayuri Iwata, model
August 6: Natsuko Aso, actress and singer
August 13: Sae Miyazawa, idol
September 19: Saki Fukuda, actress
September 25: Mao Asada, figure skater
November 15: Erika Yazawa, gravure idol
November 15: Kanata Hongō, actor and model
December 2: Hikaru Yaotome, singer and songwriter
December 10: Shoya Tomizawa, motorcycle rider (died 2010)
December 23: Yu Horiuchi, wrestler

Deaths

January 20: Prince Higashikuni, former prime minister
June 13: Michiyo Kogure, film actress
June 15: Nobuo Arai, swimmer
July 23: Kenjiro Takayanagi, television engineer, creator of the world's first all-electronic television receiver
September 1: Edwin O. Reischauer, former U.S. ambassador
September 25: Togyu Okumura, modern painter
November 5: Shunkichi Kikuchi, photographer
December 4: Naoto Tajima, athlete
December 28: Seiji Hisamatsu, film director

Statistics

Yen value: US$1 = ¥129 (low) to ¥159 (high)

Years in Japan (1868–present)

Meiji period (1868–1912)

1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912

Taishō period (1912–1926)

1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926

Shōwa period (1926–1989)

1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989

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 2016

1990 in Asia

Sovereign states	Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei 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 Myanmar 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

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