The Heisei era was the period of Japan's history that corresponded to the reign of Emperor Akihito, beginning on the day after the death of his father Hirohito. The era name means achieving peace. Japan's asset price bubble burst in the early 1990s and was followed by prolonged economic stagnation, often called the lost decades. The period also saw the Kobe earthquake and the Aum Shinrikyo sarin attack in 1995, and the great Tōhoku earthquake, tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011. Japanese animation, manga and video games spread widely abroad. Akihito abdicated, the first emperor to do so in more than two centuries, and his son Naruhito began the Reiwa era.
Before and after
- 1989Publication of Oxford English Dictionary
- 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
- 1989The golden toad is seen for the last time
- 7 January 1989Death of Hirohito
- from 8 January 1989 to 30 April 2019Heisei era
- 9 January 1989Birth of Nina Dobrev
- 23 January 1989Death of Salvador Dalí
- 21 February 1989Birth of Corbin Bleu
- 3 March 1989Death of Ruhollah Khomeini
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The era
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