1995 in Japan

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Events in the year 1995 in Japan.

Incumbents

• 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)

Events

• January 17 – The 6.9 M_w Great Hanshin earthquake shakes the southern Hyōgo Prefecture with a maximum Shindo of VII, leaving 5,502–6,434 people dead, and 251,301–310,000 displaced.
• 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 23 - 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.

Births

Deaths

• February 24 - Hideko Maehata, swimmer (b. 1914)
• February 24 - Tatsumi Kumashiro, film director (b. 1927)
• March 19 - Yasuo Yamada, voice actor (b. 1932)
• July 5 – Takeo Fukuda, politician (b. 1905)
• September 25 - Kei Tomiyama, actor, voice actor and narrator (b. 1938)

See also

• 1995 in Japanese television
• List of Japanese films of 1995

References