1987 in Japan

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Events in the year 1987 in Japan.

1987 was the second year of the Japanese asset price bubble: land values in Tokyo rose more than 85 percent between July 1986 and July 1987.

Incumbents

• Emperor: Hirohito
• Prime Minister: Yasuhiro Nakasone (L–Gunma) until November 6, Noboru Takeshita (L–Shimane)
• Chief Cabinet Secretary: Masaharu Gotōda (L–Tokushima) until November 6, Keizō Obuchi (L–Gunma)
• Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Kōichi Yaguchi
• President of the House of Representatives: Kenzaburō Hara (L–Hyōgo)
• President of the House of Councillors: Masaaki Fujita (L–Hiroshima)
• Diet sessions: 108th (regular session opened in December 1986, to May 27), 109th (extraordinary, July 6 to September 19), 110th (extraordinary, November 6 to November 11), 111th (extraordinary, November 27 to December 12), 112th (regular, December 28 to 1988, May 25)

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.

Births

• January 3: Nana Yanagisawa, actress and fashion model
• January 8: Saori Gotō, voice actress
• January 23: Yuto Nakamura, football player
• February 15: Azumi Yamamoto, voice actress
• March 15: Momoko Shibuya, actress
• March 24: Yuma Asami, adult video actress
• March 26: YUI, singer
• May 2: Miyu Uehara, gravure idol and television personality (d. 2011)
• May 7: Asami Konno, J-pop singer
• May 20: Taku Takeuchi, ski jumper
• May 22: Takuya Eguchi, voice actor
• May 22: Tao Okamoto, model
• July 3: Mikie Hara, gravure idol and actress
• June 3: Masami Nagasawa, actress
• July 11: Shigeaki Kato, singer
• July 17: Mio Nishimaki, wrestler
• June 17: Nozomi Tsuji, performer
• June 25: Takahiro Itō, actor and voice actor (d. 2009)
• July 28: Sumire, model (d. 2009)
• August 11: Kazuki Sorimachi, football player
• August 16: Eri Kitamura, voice actress and singer
• August 24: Daichi Miura, singer and dancer
• September 11: Kaori Matsumoto, judoka
• September 26: Rina Nagasaki, gravure idol
• September 28: Sho Uchida, freestyle swimmer
• October 1: Hiroki Aiba, actor, dancer, and singer
• October 3: Asami Kitagawa, swimmer
• October 4: Atomu Tanaka, football player
• October 23: Miyuu Sawai, model, actress, and idol
• October 23: Naomi Watanabe, actress and comedienne
• October 27: Thelma Aoyama, J-Pop and R&B singer
• October 29: Makoto Ogawa, pop singer
• November 11: Yuya Tegoshi, singer
• November 27: Yuria Haga, model and actress
• December 18: Miki Ando, figure skater
• December 18: Ayaka, singer

Deaths

• January 21: Ikki Kajiwara, author, manga writer, and film producer
• February 3: Prince Takamatsu
• March 8: Iwao Yamawaki, photographer
• April 5: Tsuneko Nakazato, novelist
• April 15: Masatoshi Nakayama, master of Shotokan karate
• April 21: Haruyasu Nakajima, baseball player
• May 10: Sadamichi Hirasawa, tempera painter
• June 6: Mori Mari, author
• June 16: Kōji Tsuruta, actor
• July 17: Yujiro Ishihara, actor
• July 20: Ichirō Arishima, comedian and actor
• August 5: Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, novelist, art critic, and translator of French literature
• August 7: Nobusuke Kishi, former prime minister
• August 10: Prince Yamashina Takehiko
• August 16: Sumiko Kurishima, actress and master of traditional Japanese dance
• November 11: Hiroshi Kawaguchi, actor
• December 29: Jun Ishikawa, author

Statistics

• Yen value: US$1 = ¥122 (low) to ¥152 (high)