1992 in Japan

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See also:	Other events of 1992 History of Japan  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year 1992 in Japan. It corresponds to Heisei 4 (平成4年) in the Japanese calendar.

• Emperor: Akihito^[1]
• Prime Minister: Kiichi Miyazawa (L–Hiroshima)
• Chief Cabinet Secretary: Kōichi Katō (L–Yamagata) until December 12, Yōhei Kōno (L–Kanagawa)
• Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Ryōhachi Kusaba
• President of the House of Representatives: Yoshio Sakurauchi (L–Shimane)
• President of the House of Councillors: Yūji Osada (L–proportional) until July 9, Bunbē Hara (L–Tokyo) from August 7
• Diet sessions: 123rd (regular, January 24 to June 21), 124th (extraordinary, August 7 to August 11), 125th (extraordinary, October 30 to December 10)

• Aichi Prefecture: Reiji Suzuki
• Akita Prefecture: Kikuji Sasaki
• Aomori Prefecture: Masaya Kitamura
• Chiba Prefecture: Takeshi Numata
• Ehime Prefecture: Sadayuki Iga
• Fukui Prefecture: Yukio Kurita
• Fukuoka Prefecture: Hachiji Okuda
• Fukushima Prefecture: Eisaku Satō
• Gifu Prefecture: Taku Kajiwara
• Gunma Prefecture: Hiroyuki Kodera
• Hiroshima Prefecture: Toranosuke Takeshita
• Hokkaido: Takahiro Yokomichi
• Hyogo Prefecture: Toshitami Kaihara
• Ibaraki Prefecture: Fujio Takeuchi
• Ishikawa Prefecture: Yōichi Nakanishi
• Iwate Prefecture: Iwao Kudō
• Kagawa Prefecture: Jōichi Hirai
• Kagoshima Prefecture: Yoshiteru Tsuchiya
• Kanagawa Prefecture: Kazuji Nagasu
• Kochi Prefecture: Daijiro Hashimoto
• Kumamoto Prefecture: Joji Fukushima
• Kyoto Prefecture: Teiichi Aramaki
• Mie Prefecture: Ryōzō Tagawa
• Miyagi Prefecture: Shuntarō Honma
• Miyazaki Prefecture: Suketaka Matsukata
• Nagano Prefecture: Gorō Yoshimura
• Nagasaki Prefecture: Isamu Takada
• Nara Prefecture: Yoshiya Kakimoto
• Niigata Prefecture: Kiyoshi Kaneko (until 9 September); Ikuo Hirayama (starting 25 October)
• Oita Prefecture: Morihiko Hiramatsu
• Okayama Prefecture: Shiro Nagano
• Okinawa Prefecture: Masahide Ōta
• Osaka Prefecture: Kazuo Nakagawa
• Saga Prefecture: Isamu Imoto
• Saitama Prefecture: Yawara Hata (until 12 July); Yoshihiko Tsuchiya (starting 12 July)
• Shiga Prefecture: Minoru Inaba
• Shiname Prefecture: Nobuyoshi Sumita
• Shizuoka Prefecture: Shigeyoshi Saitō
• Tochigi Prefecture: Fumio Watanabe
• Tokushima Prefecture: Shinzo Miki
• Tokyo: Shun'ichi Suzuki
• Tottori Prefecture: Yuji Nishio
• Toyama Prefecture: Yutaka Nakaoki
• Wakayama Prefecture: Shirō Kariya
• Yamagata Prefecture: Seiichirō Itagaki
• Yamaguchi Prefecture: Toru Hirai
• Yamanashi Prefecture: Ken Amano

• January 8: US President George H. W. Bush vomits in Prime Minister Miyazawa's lap during a state dinner.
• January 12: According to Japan Coast Guard official confirmed report, a settlement ship Fukujin-maru, carrying 46 passengers and crew, capsizes off Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture, 37 persons were rescued, 9 persons were their lost to lives.^{[citation needed]}
• January 13: Japan apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery during World War II.
• March 7: Sailor Moon began broadcasting on TV Asahi.
• March 14: Nozomi services begin on the Tokaido Shinkansen.
• March 25: Huis ten Bosch opens in Nagasaki Prefecture.
• April 1
  • Chiba City is divided into wards.
  • Taiyo Kobe Mitsui Bank renames itself to Sakura Bank.
• April 27: Kirby's Dream Land, the first video game in the Kirby series by Nintendo and HAL Laboratory and the debut of Kirby himself, is released.
• May 2: Civil servants are granted a two-day weekend for the first time.
• May 22: Japan New Party founded.
• July 1: Yamagata Shinkansen opens.
• July 26: In Upper House elections, the LDP holds on to a slim coalition majority.
• October 14: Liberal Democratic Party member Shin Kanemaru resigns over the receipt of illegal payments from Sagawa Express.
• October 23: Emperor Akihito visits the People's Republic of China for the first time.
• October 29–November 8: Finals of the 1992 AFC Asian Cup held in Japan. The Japan national football team defeat the defending champions, Saudi Arabia, in the final in Hiroshima.

• January 6: Hiroya, kickboxer
• January 12: Mao Kobayashi, idol
• February 1: Mao Ichimichi, actress
• February 7: Maimi Yajima, singer
• February 26: Ai Shinozaki, gravure idol and singer
• March 6: Momoko Tsugunaga, singer
• March 11: Nao Tōyama, voice actress and singer
• March 21: Erena Mizusawa, model and actress
• March 25: Machico, singer and voice actress
• March 27: Aoi Yūki, voice actress
• April 13: Daichi Hashimoto, professional wrestler
• April 25: Kyosuke Ikeda, actor and voice actor
• May 1: You Kikkawa, singer
• May 22: Chinami Tokunaga, J-pop singer
• May 28: Gaku Shibasaki, footballer^[2]
• June 27: Tsubasa Honda, actress and model
• July 3: Maasa Sudo, singer
• July 12: Anna Ishibashi, model and actress
• July 15:
  • Hokutōfuji Daiki, sumo wrestler
  • Koharu Kusumi, J-pop singer, voice actress, and model
• July 16: Tetsuto Yamada, baseball player
• August 5: Yasutaka Uchiyama, tennis player^[3]
• August 6: Saori Ōnishi, voice actress
• August 10: Ari Ozawa, voice actress
• August 16: Zawachin, model
• August 18: Riko Narumi, actress and model
• August 20: Mai Shiraishi, idol singer and model
• August 23: Yuka Kono, figure skater
• August 25: Miyabi Natsuyaki, singer
• August 27
  • Ayame Goriki, actress, singer and model
  • Sayuri Matsumura, idol singer, model
• September 3: Sachie Ishizu, tennis player
• September 7: Suzuka Morita, model and actress
• September 28: Koko Tsurumi, artistic gymnast
• October 2: Yasuaki Yamasaki, professional baseball player
• October 3: Aina Hashimoto, singer, actress and voice actress
• October 4: Shun Miyazato, actor and voice actor
• October 5: Hirotaka Chiba, actor and voice actor
• October 19: Shiho, actress and model
• October 27: Taiko Katono, actor and model
• November 5: Takuya Kai, baseball player
• November 15: Minami Minegishi, singer and actress
• November 20: Maiha Ishimura, singer
• November 25: Haru Nomura, golfer
• December 8: Yui Yokoyama, singer and actress
• December 14: Ryo Miyaichi, footballer
• December 20: Shuta Tonosaki, professional baseball player
• December 22: Shiori Kutsuna, actress and idol

• April 25: Yutaka Ozaki, songwriter and rock star (b. 1965)
• May 11: Taku Izumi, composer (b. 1930)^[4]
• May 22: Lee Yangji, author (b. 1955)
• May 24: Hitoshi Ogawa, racing car driver (b. 1956)
• May 27: Machiko Hasegawa, illustrator (b. 1920)
• May 29: Yoshitoshi Mori, artist (b. 1898)
• June 8: Sakae Ōba, officer of the Imperial Japanese Army (b. 1914)
• June 10: Hachidai Nakamura, composer (b. 1931)^[5]
• July 5: Toshirō Oumi, singer, composer (b. 1918)^[6]
• August 4: Seicho Matsumoto, author (b. 1909)
• August 12: Kenji Nakagami, author (b. 1946)
• September 5: Yasuji Mori, animator (b. 1925)
• September 25: Kazuko Matsuo, singer (b. 1935)^[7]

• Yen value: US$1 = ¥111.85 (December 31)

• 1992 in Japanese television
• List of Japanese films of 1992