1995 in Japan

Incumbents

• Emperor: Akihito
• Prime Minister: Tomiichi Murayama
• Chief Cabinet Secretary: Kōzō Igarashi until August 8, Kōken Nosaka
• Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Ryōhachi Kusaba until November 7, Tōru Miyoshi
• President of the House of Representatives: Takako Doi
• President of the House of Councillors: Bunbē Hara until July 22, Jūrō Saitō from August 4
• Diet sessions: 132nd, 133rd, 134th

  Events

• January 17 – The 6.9 Great Hanshin earthquake shakes the southern Hyōgo Prefecture with a maximum Shindo of VII, leaving 5,502–6,434 people dead, and 251,301–310,000 displaced.
• February 21 – An MSDF helicopter falls into the Bungo Channel, causing 11 deaths.
• March 20 - Members of the Aum Shinrikyo religious cult carry out a Sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway, killing 12 and injuring more than 6,000.
• March 30 - A police officer tries to assassinate Takaji Kunimatsu, Commissioner General of the National Police Agency, outside his home in Arakawa Ward, Tokyo.
• April 9 - In a series of gubernatorial elections held across Japan, Yukio Aoshima and Knock Yokoyama become governors of Tokyo and Osaka respectively.
• May 12 - A bomb goes off in a men's public lavatory on the third floor of the Terminal 2 building of New Tokyo International Airport, Narita.
• May 16 - Japanese police besiege the headquarters of Aum Shinrikyo in Kamikuishiki, Yamanashi Prefecture at the foot of Mount Fuji and arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara.
• May 31 - Governor of Tokyo Yukio Aoshima cancels a costly "World City" exposition that Governor Shun'ichi Suzuki planned to have held in Odaiba in 1996, which had formed the bulk of the basis for Aoshima's gubernatorial campaign.
• June 22 - Japanese police rescue 365 hostages from a hijacked All Nippon Airways Flight 857 at Hakodate airport. The hijacker, Fumio Kutsumi, was armed with a screw driver and demanded the release of Shoko Asahara.
• July 23 - House of Councillors election held. The recently created New Frontier Party replaced the Japanese Socialist Party as the second largest political party in Japan, and entered coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party. The Socialists lost many seats in this election.
• July 30 - During an armed robbery at a Hachioji, Tokyo supermarket, three female employees are killed.
• September 4 - 1995 Okinawa rape incident: Three U.S. servicemen serving at Camp Hansen on Okinawa kidnap and gang rape a 12-year-old Japanese girl. The incident led to further debate over the continued presence of U.S. forces in Japan.
• October 26 - Mitsubishi Motors releases the Mitsubishi Pajero Junior mini SUV.
• November 18 - November 19 - APEC summit held in Osaka, the first in Japan.

  Births

• January 16 - Takumi Minamino, footballer
• January 25 - Masaya Matsumoto, footballer
• January 30 - Misaki Iwasa, singer
• February 3 - Tao Tsuchiya, actress
• February 10 - Haruna Kawaguchi, actress and model
• February 12
• *Ryuju Hino, figure skater
• *Rina Kawaei, singer
• February 13 - Ayame Koike, actress
• February 16
• *Nikki Havenaar, footballer
• *Mayu Matsuoka, actress
• March 6 - Aimyon, singer-songwriter
• March 7 - Fuma Kikuchi, actor, dancer and singer
• March 10 - Yui Sakuma, model and actress
• March 11 - Kazuki Fukai, footballer
• March 12 - Kanon Fukuda, singer and voice actress
• March 13 - Ryutarou Akimoto, actor and model
• March 15 - Momoka Ariyasu, singer
• March 17 - Akari Hayami, actress, model and singer
• April 6 - Ryutaro Morimoto, singer
• April 14 - Yukiko Fujisawa, figure skater
• April 19 - Akira Saitō, actress
• June 4 - Shiori Tamai, singer
• June 8 - Akari Saho, musician
• June 12 - Mao Murakami, dancer
• June 17 - Aoi Morikawa, actress and model
• July 2 - Tomoko Kanazawa, pop singer
• July 30 - Yuhi, wrestler
• August 8 - Miyabi Oba, figure skater
• August 15 - Yui Ogura, actress, pop idol and singer
• August 24 - Anna Doi, sprinter
• September 12 - Kako Tomotaki, figure skater
• September 14 - Kazuto Taguchi, professional baseball player
• September 22
• *Ai Hazuki, actress
• *Taisuke Yamaoka, professional baseball player
• September 23 - Aimi Kobayashi, pianist
• October 26 - Yuta Nakamoto, pop idol and singer
• October 29 - Taku Hiraoka, snowboarder
• November 2 - Rei Takahashi, professional baseball player
• November 7 - Runa Natsui, actress
• November 19 - Asuka Teramoto, gymnast
• December 2 - Inori Minase, actress, voice actress and singer
• December 3 - Anna Iriyama, singer
• December 15 - Yoshihide Kiryū, track and field sprinter
• December 29 - Rina Ikoma, singer

  Deaths

• February 24
• *Tatsumi Kumashiro, film director
• *Hideko Maehata, swimmer
• March 19 - Yasuo Yamada, voice actor
• July 5 - Takeo Fukuda, politician
• August 25 - Setsuko, Princess Chichibu, wife of Prince Chichibu
• September 25 - Kei Tomiyama, actor, voice actor and narrator
• November 26 - Toshia Mori, actress