1998 in Japan
Events in the year 1998 in Japan Heisei 10 (平成10年) in the Japanese calendar .
Incumbents
Governors
Events
Births
January 5 - Marie Iitoyo , model and actress
January 23 - Yuto Adachi , singer and member of South Korean boy band Pentagon
February 8 - Rui Hachimura , basketball player
March 19 - Sakura Miyawaki , singer and member of South Korean girl group Le Sserafim
March 26 - Satoko Miyahara , figure skater
April 6 - Rina Katsuta , singer
April 10 - Airi Kinoshita , murder victim (d. 2005 )
April 28 - Manamo Miyata , singer and member of Hinatazaka46
May 13 - Karen Iwata , singer and voice actress
May 28 - Riho Sayashi , J-pop singer
May 31 - Ryang Hyon-ju , North Korean , footballer
June 14 - Taishi Nakagawa , actor and model
June 19 - Suzu Hirose , model and actress
July 9 - Tiger Onitsuka , jazz drummer
July 16 - Rina Matsuno , singer (d. 2017 )
July 17 - Shione Sawada, actress
July 26 - Maya Sakura , singer
July 27 - Risa Watanabe , idol and model
August 5 - Kanon Suzuki , singer
August 17 - Yoshinobu Yamamoto , professional baseball player
August 28 - Haruka Fukuhara , actress, model and singer
October 30 - Meimi Tamura , singer and actress
November 12 - Yuna Taira , actress
November 29 - Ayumu Hirano , snowboarder
December 24 - Keito Tsuna , actor
December 30 - Akari Uemura , pop singer
Deaths
January 9 – Kenichi Fukui , Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
January 21 – Yoshifumi Kondō , animator (b. 1950)
January 26 – Shinichi Suzuki , violinist (b. 1898)
January 27 – Tamio Kageyama , novelist (b. 1947)
January 28 – Shotaro Ishinomori , Manga artist, "Father of Henshin heroes." (b. 1938)
February 5 – Takahashi Chikuzan , Tsugaru-jamisen performer and composer (b. 1910)
March 10 – Kenkō Satoshi , Sumo wrestler (b. 1967)
March 13 – Kosho Uchiyama , Sōtō priest (b. 1912)
April 20 – Yoshio Inaba , actor (b. 1920)
May 2 – Matsumoto Hideto (hide), Japanese musician (b. 1964)
May 10 – Nekojiru , manga artist (b. 1967)
May 19 – Sōsuke Uno , Prime Minister (b. 1922)
August 3 – Reizo Koike , breaststroke swimmer (b. 1915)
August 28 – Hirokazu Kobayashi , aikidoka (b. 1929)
September 6 – Akira Kurosawa , screenwriter, producer, and director (b. 1910)
September 27 – Narita Bryan , racehorse (b. 1991)
October 12 – Ineko Sata , communist and feminist author of proletarian literature (b. 1904)
November 1 – Silence Suzuka , racehorse (b. 1994)
November 5 – Momoko Kōchi , actress (b. 1932)
December 1 – Shōji Nakayama , actor (b. 1928)
December 2 – Mikio Oda , athlete (b. 1905)
December 30 – Keisuke Kinoshita , film director (b. 1912)
See also
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