1987 in Japan

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1987 was the 62nd year of Showa in Japan. It was the second year of the Japanese asset price bubble: land values in Tokyo rose more than 85 percent between July 1986 and July 1987.

Incumbents

*Emperor: Hirohito
*Prime Minister: Yasuhiro Nakasone, Noboru Takeshita

Events

*February 9: First public float of NTT.
*April 1: Japanese National Railways are privatized and become the Japan Railways Group companies.
*November 6: Noboru Takeshita becomes prime minister.

During 1987:
*NTT began the first mobile phone service in Japan.
*Shoko Asahara founded Aum Shinrikyo.
*Construction began on Kansai International Airport.
*Susumu Tonegawa won the Nobel Prize for Physics.

Births

*March 26: Yui, singer
*June 3: Masami Nagasawa, actress
*June 17: Nozomi Tsuji, performer
*December 18: Miki Ando, figure skater
*December 18: Ayaka, singer

Deaths

*February 3: Prince Takamatsu
*July 17: Yujiro Ishihara, actor
*August 7: Nobusuke Kishi, former prime minister

tatistics

*Yen value: US$1 = ¥122 (low) to ¥152 (high)