Year in Japan

1995 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 7 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Jan 17 Great Hanshin Earthquake 兵庫県南部地震 · Natural disaster — 1995 earthquake in Kobe, Japan
Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo 東京都現代美術館 · Historic site — museum in Japan

Reading the year 1995 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1995 corresponds to Heisei era 平成 (year 7 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 1995年 (1995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.