Year in Japan

2019 in Japanese History

2 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Reiwa period (令和時代, 2019 – present).

Era name: Reiwa era 令和 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Jun 18 2019 Yamagata earthquake 山形県沖地震 · Earthquake — earthquake 18 June 2019 off the coast of Tsuruoka Japan
Reiwa era 令和 · Japanese era name — era of Japanese history, starting 1 May 2019

Reading the year 2019 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 2019 corresponds to Reiwa era 令和 (year 1 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 2019年 (2019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.