1980-1989 of Yukito's room

Y u k i t o C h r o n i c l e

Main occurrences around the world
1980-1989

1980 / Showa 55
(Yukito Kishiro is 13 years old: the 2nd grade of the junior high school)

Prime Minister Ohira dies suddenly (Japan)
Japan doesn't participate Moscow Olympics
Japanese a professional wrestler Antonio Inoki fights Willie Williams (Japan)
The Jesus Ark Incident occurs (Japan)
A bus is set on fire at the west entrance of Shinjuku station (Japan)
Metal Bat Murder Case occurs (Japan)
The Iran-Iraq War breaks out (Middle East)
Kwangju uprising occurs (South Korea)
MtStHelens erupts (U.S.A.)
Momoe Yamaguchi returns to private life (Japan)
The Nintendo GAME & WATCH go on the market (Japan)
Rubik's Cube goes on the market
Sadaharu Oh of Yomiuri Giants retires (Japan)
John Lennon is shot dead (U.S.A.)
Steve McQueen dies
Jean-Paul Sartre dies
Rubik's Cube hits (Japan)
The GAME & WATCH becomes popular (Japan)
As to the car-production volume, Japan exceeds the U.S.Aand becomes the world's No.1 (Japan)
Shogakukan Big Comic Spirits starts
Kodansha Young Magazine starts
TV tokusatsu drama Ultraman 80 starts (Japan)
TV tokusatsu drama Denjiman, Electric Fighters starts (Japan)
TV documentary series NHK Tokusyu Silk Road starts (Japan)
TV documentary series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan starts (Japan)
Apocalypse Now is released in theaters
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back is released in theaters
Golden Palm prize at the 33rd Cannes Film Festival
Friday The 13th is released in theaters
Vocal group CHANELS' Runaway hits
Another Brick In The Wall (Part II) by Pink Floyd hits
TV anime Space Runaway Ideon starts
TV anime The Wonderful Adventures of Nils starts
Comic series DrSlump starts in Weekly Shonen Jump
Comic series Maison Ikkoku starts

1981 / Showa 56
(Yukito Kishiro is 14 years old: the 3rd grade of the junior high school)

Iran hostage crisis at the American Embassy in Tehran ends (Iran)
A gas explosion kills 93 people at Hokutan Yubari Coal Mine (Japan)
The first Space Shuttle is launched (U.S.A.)
Pope John Paul II visits Japan (Japan)
Ken'ichi Fukui receives the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (Japan)
The Kobe Port Island Exposition--PORTOPIA '81, for short--begins (Japan)
The female pop music duo Pink Lady performs at the farewell concert
Tiger Mask makes its debut in New Japan Pro-Wrestling (Japan)
Chiyonofuji is promoted to yokozuna (Japan)
Prince Charles marries Diana (Great Britain)
President Sadat is assassinated (Egypt)
A Nobel Prize winner Hideki Yukawa dies (Japan)
A novelist Masashi Yokomizo dies (Japan)
Honda City is put on the market (Japan)
Pioneer Corporation starts selling laser disc players (Japan)
Gakken starts publishing monthly magazine Animedia
Raiders of the Lost Ark is released in theaters
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior is released in theaters
Excalibur is released in theaters
Escape from New York is released in theaters
Superman II is released in theaters
TV anime Urusei Yatsura starts
TV anime Fang of the Sun Dougram starts
Gundam Models become a boom (Japan)
Weekly photo newsmagazine FOCUS starts (Japan)
The Elephant Man is released in theaters
The Mobile Suit GUNDAM is released in theaters
Mobile Suit Gundam: Soldiers of Sorrow is released in theaters
Comic series Captain Tsubasa starts in Weekly Shonen Jump
Comic series Musashi no Ken starts in Weekly Shonen Sunday

1982 / Showa 57
(Yukito Kishiro is 15 years old: enters a high school)

Hotel New Japan fire kills 33 people in Akasaka(Japan)
Japan Airlines Flight 350 crashes on approach to Haneda Airport in Tokyo Bay caused by the captain's deliberate engaging of the engine thrust-reversers (Japan)
The Falklands War begins (Falkland Islands)
Tohoku Shinkansen is opened to traffic (Japan)
Joetsu Shinkansen is opened to traffic (Japan)
The astronomical phenomenon "syzygy" happens for the first time in 1000 years
CD player is put on the market (Japan)
TV anime Space Cobra starts
TV tokusatsu drama Space Sheriff Gavan starts
E.Tthe Extra-Terrestrial is released in theaters
Mobile Suit Gundam: Encounters in Space is released in theaters
First Blood is released in theaters
Conan the Barbarian is released in theaters
Rocky III is released in theaters
Pink Floyd The Wall is released in theaters
The Blade Runner is released in theaters
John Carpenter's The Thing is released in theaters
TV anime Combat Mecha Xabungle starts
TV animation super-space-time fort MACROSS televising start
Comic series Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind starts in Animage

1983 / Showa 58
(Yukito Kishiro is 16 years old: the 2nd grade of the high school)

Tokyo Disneyland opens (Japan)
A Soviet interceptor shoots down Korean Air Lines' passenger plane off Sakhalin (Soviet Union)
The 1983 Sea of Japan earthquake occurs (Japan)
Nintendo starts to sell Family Computer, also known as Famicom (Japan)
Mount Oyama on Miyake Island erupts (Japan)
The construction of the elementary particle detector KamiokaNDE (Kamioka Nucleon Decay Experiment) is completed (Japan)
NHK TV drama Oshin becomes hugely popular (Japan)
The principal of Totsuka Yacht School is arrested after several trainees' death (Japan)
Shuji Terayama dies
Karen Carpenter dies
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence is released in theater
The Ballad of Narayama is awarded Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival
Star Wars Episode VI Return of the Jedi is released in theater
Superman III is released in theater
Videodrome is released in theater
Intestines of spirit of the dead is released in theater
Anime film Harmagedon: The Great Battle with Genma is released in theater
Anime film Crusher Joe is released in theater
TV anime Armored Trooper VOTOMS starts
TV anime Aura Battler Dunbine starts
TV anime Galactic Drifter Vifam starts
Comic series Fist of the North Star start in Weekly Shonen Jump
Gourmet comic series Oishinbo start in Big Comic Spirits

1984 / Showa 59
(Yukito Kishiro is 17 years old: the 3rd grade of the high school)

Japanese adventurer Naomi Uemura disappears on Mt McKinley (U.S.A.)
Los Angeles Olympic Games holds (U.S.A.)
Apple Computer puts the Macintosh personal computer on the market (U.S.A.)
Bank of Japan issues new banknotes (Japan)
Ezaki Glico case occurs (Japan)
Sarajevo Winter Olympics holds (Yugoslavia)
Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind is released in theater
Ghostbusters is released in theater
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom is released in theater
Footloose is released in theater
TV tokusatsu drama Choudenshi Bioman starts (Japan)
TV anime Heavy Metal L-Gaim starts
TV anime Giant Gorg starts
TV anime Panzer World Galient starts
TV anime Fist of the North Star starts

1985 / Showa 60
(Yukito Kishiro is 18 years old: enters a vocational school)

The International Exposition, Tsukuba '85 holds (Japan)
Telecommunications company NTT and tobacco company JT make their starts after privatized (Japan)
Japan Airlines Jumbo Jet Flight crashes into Mt Osutaka (Japan)
Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party (Soviet Union)
The chairman of Toyota trading company is stabbed to dead (Japan)
The Hanshin Tigers wins the victory (Japan)
Weekly Shonen Jump breaks through 4.3 million copies (Japan)
Super Mario Brothers is put on the market(Japan)
Amadeus is released in theater
Terminator is released in theater
The Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is released in theater
The Neverending Story is released in theater

1976 / Showa 51
(Yukito Kishiro is 19 years old: quits the vocational school)

Space Shuttle Challenger explodes (U.S.A.)
Kanto district sees a record snowfall (Japan)
An idol singer Yuki Okada commits suicide by jumping off (Japan)
Halley's Comet reaches the closest point to the Sun
Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster occurs (Soviet Union)
Dragon Quest is released (Japan)
Fujifilm puts Utsurun-Desu, or QuickSnap, on the market
The Kokai River in Ibaraki prefecture collapses (Japan)
Japan Airlines freighter encounters a huge UFO (over Alaska)
Mt. Mihara erupts (Japan)
Seven female believers of the Michinotomo Kyokai (Friends of Truth Church) commit suicide by fire (Japan)
Takeshi Kitano makes a raid (Japan) to the FRIDAY magazine editorial department
Mike Tyson at the age of 20 becomes the youngest world heavyweight champion in history (U.S.A.
Castle in the Sky is released in theater
Top Gun is released in theater
Highlander is released in theater
The Return of the Living Dead is released in theater
Commando is released in theater
Aliens is released in theaters <i>Rambo: First Blood Part II is released in theater
Rocky IV is released in theater
The Fly is released in theater
TV anime Spaceship Sagittarius</i> starts
TV anime Dragon Ball starts
TV anime Saint Seiya starts
TV anime Maison Ikkoku starts
Comic series Saint Seiya starts in Weekly Shonen Jum
Comic series Chibimaruko-chan series starts in Ribbon

1987 / Showa 62
(Yukito Kishiro is 20 years old)

Ikki Kajiwara dies (Japan)
The Asahi Shimbun Bureau Attack occurs (Japan)
Tanka poet Machi Tawara releases Salad Anniversary (Japan)
Yujiro Ishihara dies (Japan)
Kim Hyun-Hui blows up Korean Air Flight (offing of Myanmar)
Stock market levels fall sharply on the New York Stock Exchange and around the world (U.S.A.)
Mike Tyson unifies the three world heavyweight titles (U.S.A.)
Sadamichi Hirasawa, the death-row convict of mass poisoning known as Teigin Case, dies
KamiokaNDE detects neutrinos for the first time in the world
Yasuda Fire & Marine Insurance buys Van Gogh's Sunflowers for 39.9 million dollars
Apple puts Macintosh II on the market (U.S.A.)
NEC Home Electronics releases PC Engine, also known as TurboGrafx-16 (Japan)
Platoon is released in theater
Anime film Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honneamise is released in theater
A Taxing Woman is released in theater
The Last Emperor is released in theater
"Crocodile" Dundee is released in theater
RoboCop is released in theater
Predator is released in theater
Hellraiser is released in theater
Evil Dead II is released in theater
TV tokusatsu drama Choujinki Metalder starts (Japan)
TV tokusatsu drama Masked Rider BLACK starts (Japan)

1988 / Showa 63
(Yukito Kishiro is 21 years old)

A baseball stadium Tokyo Dome is completed (Japan)
Seikan Tunnel is opened to traffic (Japan)
The Great Seto Bridge is opened to traffic (Japan)
Dragon Quest III is released (Japan)
The Recruit Scandal is detected (Japan)
The Nadashio, a Maritime Self Defense Force submarine, collides with a fishing vessel (Japan)
The United States Navy missile cruiser shoots down an Iranian civilian jet airliner in the Persian Gulf
27 students and a teacher on the way of school trip from Kochi prefecture, Japan are killed by the train collision accidents in the Shanghai suburbs (China)
Soul Olympic Games open (South Korea)
Emperor Showa vomits blood, and hesitation of social activities is widespread (Japan)
The civil-affairs statute of limitations on the 300 million yen robbery passes (Japan)
Armenian earthquake occurs (Soviet Union)
SEGA Mega Drive, also known as SEGA Genesis, is released (Japan)
Nissan Motor puts Cima on the market (Japan)
Pharmaceutical company Sankyo puts an energy drink Regain on the market (Japan)
Weekly Shonen Jump issues record 5 million copies (Japan)
AKIRA is released in theater
My Neighbor Totoro is released in theater
I Love Maria (aka Roboforce) is released in theater
Rambo III is released in theater
Hellbound: Hellraiser II is released in theater
The Hidden is released in theater
TV tokusatsu drama World Ninja War Jiraiya starts (Japan)
TV tokusatsu drama Masked Rider BLACK R starts (Japan)

1989 / Heisei first year
(Yukito Kishiro is 22 years old)

Emperor Showa passes away (Japan)
The new era name Heisei is adopted (Japan)
Cartoonist Osamu Tezuka dies (Japan)
Singer Hibari Misora dies (Japan)
Tiananmen Square Incident occurs (China)
Nintendo releases Game Boy (Japan)
Serial kidnapping murders of little girls occur (Japan)
Concrete-encased high school girl murder case occurs (Japan)
The SOS characters made of fallen trees by a mysterious casualty is found halfway up a mountain of the Daisetsu Mountain Range System (Japan)
Lawyer Tsutsumi Sakamoto and his family's disappearance case occurs (six years later it is revealed they were assassinated by members of Aum Shinrikyo)
Yokohama Bay Bridge is opened to traffic (Japan)
Loma Prieta earthquake strikes San Francisco (U.S.A.)
Yokozuna Chiyonofuji records the most ever 965 wins (Japan)
Yoshiharu Habu becomes the first teenage titleholder in the professional shogi community (Japan)
Sony acquires Columbia Pictures, an American film production and distribution company
Mitsubishi Estate acquires Rockefeller Group
More than 100 million yen in notes is discovered in the bamboo grove in Kawasaki (Japan)
A hoax article about coral damage of Okinawa in Asahi Shimbun is revealed
Soviet Union)
The Berlin Wall falls (East Germany)
The end of the cold war is declared
The stock price average of the Tokyo Stock Exchange first section records the highest ever (Japan)
Salvador Dali dies
Actor Yuusaku Matsuda dies
Kiki's Delivery Service is released in theater
Black Rain is released in theater
Batman is released in theater
Die Hard is released in theater
The Abyss is released in theater
Cyborg is released in theater
TV tokusatsu drama The Mobile Cop Jiban starts
TV anime Chibimaruko-chan starts
Comic series Hajime no Ippo, aka Fighting Spirit, starts in Weekly Shonen Magazine

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