Events
- February 9: First public float of NTT.
- April 1: Japanese National Railways are privatized and become the Japan Railways Group companies.
- November 6: Noboru Takeshita becomes prime minister.
During 1987:
- NTT began the first mobile phone service in Japan.
- Shoko Asahara founded Aum Shinrikyo.
- Construction began on Kansai International Airport.
- Susumu Tonegawa won the Nobel Prize for Physics.
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