Year in Japan

1993 in Japanese History

2 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Heisei period (平成時代, 1989 – 2019).

Era name: Heisei era 平成 (year 5 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Jan 15 1993 Kushiro-Oki earthquake 釧路沖地震 · Earthquake — Large earthquake in eastern Hokkaidō in January 1993
Jul 12 1993 Okushiri earthquake 北海道南西沖地震 · Earthquake — earthquake in Japan

Reading the year 1993 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1993 corresponds to Heisei era 平成 (year 5 of the era). Years are written with 年 (ねん, nen) — so 1600 appears as 慶長5年, "the fifth year of Keichō".

The year itself is read 1993年 (1993ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 20th century for its neighbours.