1986 in Japan
1986 in Japan was the first year of the Japanese asset price bubble. == Government incumbents == Emperor: Hirohito Prime Minister: Yasuhiro Nakasone (L–Gunma) Chief Cabinet Secretary: Masaharu Gotōda (L–Tokushima) Chief Justice of the Supreme Court: Kōichi Yaguchi President of the House of Representatives: Michita Sakata (L–Kumamoto) until June 2, Kenzaburō Hara (L–Hyōgo) from July 22 President of the House of Councillors: Mutsuo Kimura (L–Okayama) until July 22, Masaaki Fujita (L–Hiroshima) Diet sessions: 104th (regular session opened in December 1985, to May 22), 105th (extraordinary, June 2), 106th (special, July 22 to July 25), 107th (extraordinary, September 11 to December 20), 108th (regular, December 29 to 1987, May 27) === Governors === Aichi Prefecture: Reiji Suzuki Akita Prefecture: Kikuji Sasaki Aomori Prefecture: Masaya Kitamura Chiba Prefecture: Takeshi Numata Ehime Prefecture: Haruki Shiraishi Fukui Prefecture: Heidayū Nakagawa Fukuoka Prefecture: Hachiji Okuda Fukushima Prefecture: Isao Matsudaira Gifu Prefecture: Yosuke Uematsu Gunma Prefecture: Ichiro Shimizu Hiroshima Prefecture: Toranosuke Takeshita Hokkaido: Takahiro Yokomichi Hyogo Prefecture: Tokitada Sakai (until 23 November); Toshitami Kaihara (starting 24 November) Ibaraki Prefecture: Fujio Takeuchi Ishikawa Prefecture: Yōichi Nakanishi Iwate Prefecture: Tadashi Nakamura Kagawa Prefecture: Tadao Maekawa (until 4 September); Jōichi Hirai (starting 5 September) Kagoshima Prefecture: Kaname Kamada Kanagawa Prefecture: Kazuji Nagasu Kochi Prefecture: Chikara Nakauchi Kumamoto Prefecture: Morihiro Hosokawa Kyoto Prefecture: Yukio Hayashida (until 15 April); Teiichi Aramaki (starting 16 April) Mie Prefecture: Ryōzō Tagawa Miyagi Prefecture: Sōichirō Yamamoto Miyazaki Prefecture: Suketaka Matsukata Nagano Prefecture: Gorō Yoshimura Nagasaki Prefecture: Isamu Takada Nara Prefecture: Shigekiyo Ueda Niigata Prefecture: Takeo Kimi Oita Prefecture: Morihiko Hiramatsu Okayama Prefecture: Shiro Nagano Okinawa Prefecture: Junji Nishime Osaka Prefecture: Sakae Kishi Saga Prefecture: Kumao Katsuki Saitama Prefecture: Yawara Hata Shiga Prefecture: Masayoshi Takemura (until 16 June); Minoru Inaba (starting 20 July) Shiname Prefecture: Seiji Tsunematsu Shizuoka Prefecture: Keizaburō Yamamoto (until 6 July); Shigeyoshi Saitō (starting 7 July) Tochigi Prefecture: Fumio Watanabe Tokushima Prefecture: Shinzo Miki Tokyo: Shun'ichi Suzuki Tottori Prefecture: Yuji Nishio Toyama Prefecture: Yutaka Nakaoki Wakayama Prefecture: Shirō Kariya Yamagata Prefecture: Seiichirō Itagaki Yamaguchi Prefecture: Toru Hirai Yamanashi Prefecture: Kōmei Mochizuki == Events == January 6: Major snowfall strikes Western Japan.