Year in Japan
2006 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 18 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Chua Viet Nam チュアベトナム · Buddhist temple — Vietnamese Buddhist temple in Aikawa, Kanagawa, Japan
- Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement 偽造品の取引の防止に関する協定 · Treaty — multinational intellectual property rights treaty
Reading the year 2006 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 2006 corresponds to Heisei era 平成 (year 18 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 2006年 (2006ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 21st century for its neighbours.