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Incumbents

Emperor: Hirohito
Prime Minister: Yasuhiro Nakasone (L–Gunma) until November 6, Noboru Takeshita (L–Shimane)
Chief Cabinet Secretary: Masaharu Gotōda (L–Tokushima) until November 6, Keizō Obuchi (L–Gunma)
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Kōichi Yaguchi
President of the House of Representatives: Kenzaburō Hara (L–Hyōgo)
President of the House of Councillors: Masaaki Fujita (L–Hiroshima)
Diet sessions: 108th (regular session opened in December 1986, to May 27), 109th (extraordinary, July 6 to September 19), 110th (extraordinary, November 6 to November 11), 111th (extraordinary, November 27 to December 12), 112th (regular, December 28 to 1988, May 25)

Events

January 27: Construction began on Kansai International Airport.
February 9: First public float of NTT.
March 17: Asahi beer starts selling Asahi Super Dry.
April 1: Japanese National Railways is privatized and becomes the seven Japan Railways Group companies.
April 4: The Ariake Coliseum in Koto Ward, Tokyo, is completed.
June 1: Asahi TV starts broadcasting the popular short factual television programme See the World by Train (世界の車窓から)
July 12: Metal Gear is released by Konami.
October 1: Nippon Gakki Company Ltd. (Japan Musical Instrument Manufacturing Corporation) is renamed to Yamaha Corporation and Konishiroku Honten is renamed to Konica (Konica Minolta).
October 12: Susumu Tonegawa wins the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
November 6: Noboru Takeshita becomes prime minister.
December 17: Mega Man is released.

During 1987:

NTT began the first mobile phone service in Japan.
Shoko Asahara founded Aum Shinrikyo.

Births

January 3: Nana Yanagisawa, actress and fashion model
January 8: Saori Gotō, voice actress
January 23: Yuto Nakamura, football player
February 15: Azumi Yamamoto, voice actress
March 15: Momoko Shibuya, actress
March 24: Yuma Asami, adult video actress
March 25: Nobunari Oda, figure skater
March 26: YUI, singer-songwriter
April 27: Anne Suzuki, actress
May 2: Miyu Uehara, gravure idol and television personality (died 2011)
May 2: Nana Kitade, singer
May 7: Asami Konno, J-pop singer
May 20: Taku Takeuchi, ski jumper
May 22: Takuya Eguchi, voice actor
May 22: Tao Okamoto, model
July 3: Mikie Hara, gravure idol and actress
June 3: Masami Nagasawa, actress
July 11: Shigeaki Kato, singer
July 17: Mio Nishimaki, wrestler
June 17: Nozomi Tsuji, performer
June 19: Miho Fukuhara, singer
June 25: Takahiro Itō, actor and voice actor (died 2009)
July 28: Sumire, model (died 2009)
August 11: Kazuki Sorimachi, football player
August 16: Eri Kitamura, voice actress and singer
August 24: Daichi Miura, singer and dancer
September 11: Kaori Matsumoto, judoka
September 26: Rina Nagasaki, gravure idol
September 28: Sho Uchida, freestyle swimmer
October 1: Hiroki Aiba, actor, dancer, and singer
October 3: Asami Kitagawa, swimmer
October 4: Atomu Tanaka, football player
October 8: Aya Hirano, voice actress and singer
October 15: Mizuho Sakaguchi, footballer
October 23: Miyuu Sawai, model, actress, and idol
October 23: Naomi Watanabe, actress and comedian
October 27: Thelma Aoyama, J-Pop and R&B singer
October 29: Makoto Ogawa, pop singer
November 11: Yuya Tegoshi, singer
November 12: Kengo Kora, actor
November 27: Yuria Haga, model and actress
December 18: Miki Ando, figure skater
December 18: Ayaka, singer
December 20: Michihiro Yasuda, football player

Deaths

January 21: Ikki Kajiwara, author, manga writer, and film producer
February 3: Prince Takamatsu
March 8: Iwao Yamawaki, photographer
April 5: Tsuneko Nakazato, novelist
April 15: Masatoshi Nakayama, master of Shotokan karate
April 21: Haruyasu Nakajima, baseball player
May 10: Sadamichi Hirasawa, tempera painter
June 6: Mori Mari, author
June 16: Kōji Tsuruta, actor
July 17: Yujiro Ishihara, actor
July 20: Ichirō Arishima, comedian and actor
August 5: Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, novelist, art critic, and translator of French literature
August 7: Nobusuke Kishi, former prime minister
August 10: Prince Yamashina Takehiko
August 16: Sumiko Kurishima, actress and master of traditional Japanese dance
November 11: Hiroshi Kawaguchi, actor
December 29: Jun Ishikawa, author

Statistics

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

References

Years in Japan (1868–present)

Meiji period (1868–1912)

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Taishō period (1912–1926)

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Shōwa period (1926–1989)

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Heisei period (1989–present)

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1987 in Asia

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States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Taiwan

Dependencies and other territories	British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong Macau

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