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1991 in Japan

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Events in the year 1991 in Japan. It corresponds to Heisei 3 (平成3年) in the Japanese calendar.

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Incumbents

Emperor: Akihito^[1]
Prime Minister: Toshiki Kaifu (L–Aichi) until November 5,^[2] Kiichi Miyazawa ^[3]
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Misoji Sakamoto (L–Ishikawa) until November 5, Kōichi Katō (L–Yamagata)
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Ryōhachi Kusaba
President of the House of Representatives: Yoshio Sakurauchi (L–Shimane)
President of the House of Councillors: Yoshihiko Tsuchiya (L–Saitama) until October 4, Yūji Osada (L–proportional)
Diet sessions: 120th (regular session opened in December 1990, to May 8), 121st (extraordinary, August 5 to October 4), 122nd (extraordinary, November 5 to December 21)

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Events

January 1: Telephone numbers in Tokyo are expanded from 7 digits to 8 digits
March 14: A under constructing to Hiroshima Astram Line bridge girder falling accident, kills 14, injures 9.^[4]
April 1: Tokyo Metropolitan Government moved its offices from Marunouchi to the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building in Shinjuku.
April 26: Self-Defense Forces dispatched to assist in the Gulf War.
May 14: Shigaraki train disaster – 42 fatalities, 614 injures in Shiga Prefecture.^[5]
June 3: Mount Unzen in Nagasaki Prefecture saw a pyroclastic flow, resulting in 43 deaths.^[6]
June 15: The International Olympic Committee awards the 1998 Winter Olympics to Nagano, Japan.^[7]
June 20: Tohoku Shinkansen line is extended from Ueno Station to Tokyo Station.
July 13: 1991 Itoman special breach of trust case, six arrested by Japanese authorities.^[8]
July 31: Lotte Orions baseball team announces it will move to Chiba and become the Chiba Lotte Marines.
August 5: Aerospatiale SA365N helicopter crash in Muraoka, Mikata District, Hyōgo Prefecture, 8 fatalities.^[9]
August 14 – NTT Docomo was founded.^[10]
September 11: USS Independence (CV-62) arrives at Yokosuka, replacing the USS Midway (CV-41) as the U.S. Navy's only forward-deployed aircraft carrier.^[11]
September 27: Typhoon Mireille kills 45 people in Japan.^[12]
October 3: Kaifu resigns as prime minister.
October 20: At the Japanese Grand Prix held at the Suzuka Circuit, Ayrton Senna wins his third and last F1 Drivers' Championship.^[13]
November 5: Miyazawa announces his first cabinet.

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Births

January

January 8: Asuka Hinoi, singer^[14]
January 14: Kana Ichikawa, sprinter
January 19: Yu Takahashi, model and actress^[15]

February

February 4: Aya Ōmasa, fashion model and actress^[16]

March

March 4: Aoi Nakamura, actor^[17]^[18]
March 10: Kenshi Yonezu, singer-songwriter
March 14: Michiko Kashiwabara, cross country skier^[19]
March 14: Miu Nakamura, tarento and gravure idol^[20]
March 15: Kii Kitano, gravure idol and actress^[21]
March 28: Rin Asuka, actress

April

April 8: Minami Takahashi, singer
April 11: Erina Mano, J-pop singer^[22]
April 11: Kenta Matsudaira, table tennis player^[23]
April 12: Daisuke Kikuchi, footballer^[24]
April 15: Daiki Arioka, singer^[25]
April 16: Misato Ugaki, announcer
April 17: Shinsaku Uesugi, FIDE master^[26]
April 20: Yuko Shintake, artistic gymnast
April 29: Misaki Doi, tennis player^[27]
May 3: Narita Brian, racehorse (died 1998)^[28]

May

May 24: Erika Umeda, singer
May 26: Takumi Abe, football player
May 29: Saori Hayami, voice actress and singer^[29]

June

June 15: Rina Takeda, actress and martial artist
June 17: Yusei Kikuchi, baseball pitcher
June 25: Kyousuke Hamao, actor and model^{[citation needed]}
June 27: Haruka Yamazaki, voice actress and singer
June 30: Kaho, actress^[30]

July

July 3: Tomomi Itano, singer, actress and idol
July 10: Atsuko Maeda, singer^[31]
July 11: Kentaro Sakaguchi, model and actor
July 12: Tomoki Kameda, boxer^[32]
July 15: Yuki Kashiwagi, singer, actress and idol
July 18: Mizuki Yamamoto, model and actress
July 25: Miyu Nagaoka, volleyball player^[33]
July 27: Rena Matsui, singer and idol
July 28: Rina Aizawa, actress^[34]

August

August 3: Kaori Kawanaka, archer^[35]
August 16: Yūki Tokiwa, voice actor^[36]

September

September 17: Ryo Ishikawa, golfer

October

October 15: Sayaka Nakaya, idol
October 16: Miori Takimoto, actress
October 23: Princess Mako^[37]
October 26: Riho Iida, actress and child model
October 27: Sōta Murakami, actor and voice actor^[38]

November

November 12: Takatoshi Abe, track and field athlete
November 16: Tomomi Kasai, singer
November 19: Genki Yamamoto, cyclist
November 22: Saki Shimizu, singer
November 26: Yoshi Tsutsugo, professional baseball player
November 28: Mayuko Kawakita, actress and model

December

December 3: Masahiro Usui, actor^[39]
December 7: Dori Sakurada, actor and singer^[40]
December 14: Mitsuki Takahata, actress and singer
December 19: Sumire Uesaka, voice actress and singer^[41]
December 24: Shion Kokubun, figure skater^[42]
December 30: Kurumi Nara, tennis player^[43]

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Deaths

January 2: Hiroshi Noma, author (b. 1915)^[44]
January 29: Yasushi Inoue, author (b. 1907)^[45]
February 24: Shingo Kanemoto, voice actor (b. 1932)^[46]
May 15: Shintaro Abe, politician (b. 1924)^[47]
May 26: Kisaburo Osawa, aikido teacher (b. 1910)^[48]
June 3: Takeshi Nagata, earth scientist (b. 1913)^[49]
July 5: Nobuo Nakamura, actor (b. 1908)^[50]
July 11: Hitoshi Igarashi, scholar (b. 1947)^[51]
August 5: Soichiro Honda, founder of Honda Motor Company (b. 1906)
August 8: Mitsuko Yoshikawa, actress (b. 1901)^[52]
September 3: Susumu Ishii, second kaicho (Godfather) of Inagawa-kai (b. 1924)^[53]
October 22: Hachiro Kasuga, enka singer (b. 1924)^[54]
November 12: Keizō Hayashi, civil servant and military general (b. 1907)
November 14: Yoshikata Yoda, screenwriter (b. 1909)^[55]
November 23: Ken Uehara, film actor (b. 1909)^[56]
November 27: Yō Yoshimura, voice actor (b. 1909)^[57]

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Statistics

Yen value: US$1 = ¥124.85 (December 31)

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