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List of events
Events in the year
1998 in
Japan . It corresponds to the year
Heisei
10 (平成10年) in the
Japanese calendar .
Incumbents
Governors
Events
Births
January 5 -
Marie Iitoyo , model and actress
January 23 -
Yuto Adachi , singer and member of South Korean boy band
Pentagon
February 8 -
Rui Hachimura , basketball player
March 19 -
Sakura Miyawaki , singer and member of South Korean girl group
Le Sserafim
March 26 -
Satoko Miyahara , figure skater
April 6 -
Rina Katsuta , singer
April 10 -
Airi Kinoshita , murder victim (d.
2005 )
April 28 -
Manamo Miyata , singer and member of
Hinatazaka46
May 13 -
Karen Iwata , singer and voice actress
May 28 -
Riho Sayashi , J-pop singer
May 31 -
Ryang Hyon-ju ,
North Korean , footballer
June 14 -
Taishi Nakagawa , actor and model
June 19 -
Suzu Hirose , model and actress
July 9 -
Tiger Onitsuka , jazz drummer
July 16 -
Rina Matsuno , singer (d.
2017 )
July 17 - Shione Sawada, actress
July 26 -
Maya Sakura , singer
July 27 -
Risa Watanabe , idol and model
August 5 -
Kanon Suzuki , singer
August 17 -
Yoshinobu Yamamoto , professional baseball player
August 28 -
Haruka Fukuhara , actress, model and singer
October 30 -
Meimi Tamura , singer and actress
November 12 -
Yuna Taira , actress
November 29 -
Ayumu Hirano , snowboarder
December 24 -
Keito Tsuna , actor
December 30 -
Akari Uemura , pop singer
Deaths
January 9 –
Kenichi Fukui , Japanese chemist,
Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
January 21 –
Yoshifumi Kondō , animator (b. 1950)
January 26 –
Shinichi Suzuki , violinist (b. 1898)
January 27 –
Tamio Kageyama , novelist (b. 1947)
January 28 –
Shotaro Ishinomori , Manga artist, "Father of Henshin heroes." (b. 1938)
February 5 –
Takahashi Chikuzan ,
Tsugaru-jamisen performer and composer (b. 1910)
March 10 –
Kenkō Satoshi , Sumo wrestler (b. 1967)
March 13 –
Kosho Uchiyama ,
Sōtō priest (b. 1912)
April 20 –
Yoshio Inaba , actor (b. 1920)
May 2 –
Matsumoto Hideto (hide), Japanese musician (b. 1964)
May 10 –
Nekojiru , manga artist (b. 1967)
May 19 –
Sōsuke Uno ,
Prime Minister (b. 1922)
August 3 –
Reizo Koike , breaststroke swimmer (b. 1915)
August 28 –
Hirokazu Kobayashi ,
aikidoka (b. 1929)
September 6 –
Akira Kurosawa , screenwriter, producer, and director (b. 1910)
September 27 –
Narita Bryan , racehorse (b. 1991)
October 12 –
Ineko Sata , communist and feminist author of
proletarian literature (b. 1904)
November 1 –
Silence Suzuka , racehorse (b. 1994)
November 5 –
Momoko Kōchi , actress (b. 1932)
December 1 –
Shōji Nakayama , actor (b. 1928)
December 2 –
Mikio Oda , athlete (b. 1905)
December 30 –
Keisuke Kinoshita , film director (b. 1912)
See also
References