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The Japanese era name (Japanese: 元号, Hepburn: gengō, "era name") or nengō (年号, year name), is the first of the two elements that identify years in the Japanese era calendar scheme. The second element is a number which indicates the year number within the era (with the first year being "gan ( 元 ) ") meaning "origin, basis", followed ...
The terms Tennō ('Emperor', 天皇), as well as Nihon ('Japan', 日本), were not adopted until the late 7th century AD. [6] [2] In the nengō system which has been in use since the late 7th century, years are numbered using the Japanese era name and the number of years which have elapsed since the start of that nengō era. [7]
Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi won the House of Councillors election. 2002: 31 May-30 June: 2002 FIFA World Cup are held in Japan and South Korea. 2003: 9 November: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi won the general elections at the second time. 9 December: Japan send troops to Iraq during the Iraq War (2003–11).
This is a list of years in Japan. See also the timeline of Japanese history . For only articles about years in Japan that have been written, see Category:Years in Japan .
The Meiji period is a Japanese era which extended from September 8, 1868 through July 30, 1912. For the first five years (marked with an * asterisk in the first table below), the Gregorian years do not exactly equal the Japanese era years. This is because the Gregorian calendar was not adopted in Japan until Meiji 6.
Japanese era stubs (57 P) Pages in category "Japanese eras" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 267 total.
The present era, Reiwa, formally began on 1 May 2019. [8] [9] [10] The name of the new era was announced by the Japanese government on 1 April 2019, a month prior to Naruhito's accession to the throne. [11] [12] [10] The previous era, Heisei, came to an end on 30 April 2019, after Japan's former emperor, Akihito, abdicated the throne.
This is a list of such named time periods as defined in various fields of study. These can be divided broadly into prehistorical periods and historical periods (when written records began to be kept).