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Actually, it'll start just few days after the death. When last emperor died on 1989-01-07, that was the end of Syowa 64, then Heisei 1st (called Gan-nen 元年 inst
by unsignedint 8y ago
Actually, it'll start just few days after the death. When last emperor died on 1989-01-07, that was the end of Syowa 64, then Heisei 1st (called Gan-nen 元年 instead of 1st) started on 1989-01-08.
Committee starts the plan of determining new era name well in advance when this is about to happen, so this is determined a several months in advance.
With this transition that taking place next year, I hear many of engineers are very annoyed for the fact they are withholding announcement of this just a month before it is changing, for the publicly stated reasoning of to "not ruin the surprise."
- glandium 8y agoIt's also worth noting this is the first era transition while computer systems are basically everywhere.
- unsignedint 8y agoActually, back in Showa-Heisei, there were plenty of the computerized system existed already. Many of these system, where they could not be patched, is "assuming" the system is still in Showa. (So the system thinks this year's Showa 93) They will see Y2K like problem in 2025 (Showa-100) if these systems are still active somewhere (as they may not handle >99) and to less extent, same thing may happen in 2088 (Heisei-100) I'm thinking their tendency of ground-up development of those internal systems in Japan would make this a lot more complicated.