Events
- January 1: Telephone numbers in Osaka are extended to ten digits, and mobile phone numbers throughout Japan are extended to eleven.
- March 3: The Bank of Japan announces its zero interest rate policy.
- April 11: Shintaro Ishihara is elected governor of Tokyo.
- June 29: A heavy massibie rain, following devastating flood hit underground shopping mall in Fukuoka, and landslide hit Kure and Hiroshima, according to Japanese official report, at least 32 people lives.
- July 23: ANA Flight 61 survives a hijacking attempt and lands safely.
- July 31: Rock band Glay gathers about the audiences of 200,000 people at a specially installed pay parking lot of Makuhari Messe in Chiba and hold a Japanese historical concert.
- August 9: National Flag and Anthem Act is passed.
- September 29: A man named Yasuake Uwabe drives a car into a crowd and then stabs people, killing five, before being arrested.
- November 10: Diet of Japan holds its first Question Time.
- December 4: Yamagata Shinkansen extension to Shinjō Station opens.
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