1986 in Japan
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Events in the year 1986 in Japan.
1986 was the first year of the Japanese asset price bubble.
Contents
Incumbents
- Emperor: Hirohito
- Prime Minister: Yasuhiro Nakasone (L–Gunma)
- Chief Cabinet Secretary: Masaharu Gotōda (L–Tokushima)
- Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Kōichi Yaguchi
- President of the House of Representatives: Michita Sakata (L–Kumamoto) until June 2, Kenzaburō Hara (L–Hyōgo) from July 22
- President of the House of Councillors: Mutsuo Kimura (L–Okayama) until July 22, Masaaki Fujita (L–Hiroshima)
- Diet sessions: 104th (regular session opened in December 1985, to May 22), 105th (extraordinary, June 2), 106th (special, July 22 to July 25), 107th (extraordinary, September 11 to December 20), 108th (regular, December 29 to 1987, May 27)
Events
- January 6: Major snowfall strikes western Japan: Kagoshima is blanketed with 20 cm.
- March 23: Record snowfall in the Tokyo area leads to a train collision on the Seibu Shinjuku Line.
- July 6: Simultaneous elections for both houses of the Diet.
- July 22: Third Nakasone cabinet announced.
- September 6: Takako Doi becomes president of the Japan Socialist Party: she is the first female party leader in Japanese history.
- December 9: Beat Takeshi and his troupe are arrested for an attack on the editors of Friday magazine.
Births
- January 1: Shōko Hamada, gravure idol and race queen
- January 5: Teppei Koike, singer and actor
- January 8: Maria Ozawa, adult video actress
- January 16: Ryutaro Matsumoto, wrestler
- January 17: Yu Hasebe, actress and model
- January 23: Yukie Kawamura, gravure idol, tarento, and actress
- January 26: Matt Heafy, musician
- January 31: Hiroyuki Akimoto, judoka
- February 2: Miwa Asao, beach volleyball player
- February 10: Yui Ichikawa, model/performer
- February 15: Ami Koshimizu, voice actress
- February 19: Reon Kadena, model
- February 23: Kazuya Kamenashi, singer-songwriter and actor (KAT-TUN and Shūji to Akira)
- February 25: Machiko Tezuka, idol
- February 26: Crystal Kay, singer and actress
- March 1: Ayumu Goromaru, rugby union player
- March 8: Princess Tsuguko
- March 11: Mariko Shinoda, singer, actress, fashion model and idol (AKB48)
- March 13
- Chiaki Kyan, gravure idol
- Kousuke Yonehara, singer and actor (Run&Gun)
- March 16: Daisuke Takahashi, figure skater
- April 1: Shunichi Miyamoto, musical artist and voice actor
- April 1: Yurika Nakamura, long-distance runner
- April 6: Gōeidō Gōtarō, sumo wrestler
- April 6: Ryota Moriwaki, football player
- April 8: Erika Sawajiri, actress, model, and musician
- April 10: Yohei Sakai, football player
- April 14: Anne Watanabe, fashion model
- April 14: Takuya Kawamura, professional basketball player
- April 16: Shinji Okazaki, football player
- April 20: Yuji Oe, football player
- April 20: Yuya Yoshizawa, football player
- April 22: Koji Hashimoto, football player
- April 30: Masaya Nakamura, actor
- April 30: Sachi Tainaka, singer
- May 1: Ryo Nurishi, football player
- May 19: Moa Arimoto, actress and model
- May 25
- Takahiro Hōjō, actor and musician
- Juri Ueno, actress
- May 29: Kunihiro Yamashita, football player
- June 13: Keisuke Honda, football player
- June 15: Momoko Ueda, golfer
- June 18: Shusaku Nishikawa, footballer
- July 4: Takahisa Masuda, actor, idol and singer
- July 20: Meisa Hanai, AV idol
- July 23: Ayaka Komatsu, actress and model
- July 26: Miho Maeshima, AV idol and model
- July 31: Hiroki Kato, football player
- August 11: Kaori Fukuhara, voice actress
- August 16: Yu Darvish, baseball player
- August 22: Keiko Kitagawa, actress
- September 10: Ryuji Kamiyama, vocalist and actor (Run&Gun)
- September 11: Chise Nakamura, actress and gravure idol
- September 12: Yuto Nagatomo, footballer
- September 14: Ai Takahashi, performer
- September 22: Sayuri Yahagi, voice actress
- October 5: Manabu Watanabe, football player
- October 6: Yusuke Nakamura, football player
- October 7: Mako, voice actress
- October 28: Aki Toyosaki, voice actress and singer
- October 29: Tina Yuzuki, AV idol
- November 26: Kanae Itō, voice actress and singer
- December 11: Manami Wakayama, idol
- December 19: Satoshi Ishii, judoka and mixed martial artist
- December 24
- Satomi Ishihara, actress
- Riyo Mori, Miss Universe 2007
- December 26: Mew Azama, model and actress
- December 28: Manami Watanabe, J-pop singer
Deaths
- January 24: Masazumi Inada, lieutenant general in the Japanese Imperial Army
- February 21: Shigechiyo Izumi, supercentenarian
- February 24: Iwaichi Fujiwara, officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy
- April 8: Yukiko Okada, idol singer
- April 21: Matsunobori Shigeo, sumo wrestler
- May 13: Katsuji Matsumoto, illustrator and shōjo manga artist
- May 17: Masaji Kitano, medical doctor, microbiologist lieutenant general
- June 26: Kunio Maekawa, architect
- June 30: Soichi Ichida, philatelist
- July 31: Chiune Sugihara, diplomat and 'Japanese Schindler'
- September 10: Koji Shima, film director and screenwriter
- September 26: Noboru Terada, freestyle swimmer
- October 14: Takahiko Yamanouchi, theoretical physicist
- October 25: Tadao Tannaka, mathematician
- November 12: Fumiko Enchi, author
- November 26: Kaku Takagawa, Go player
- December 25: Hamao Umezawa, scientist
Statistics
- Yen value: US$1 = ¥153 (low) to ¥192 (high)
