2018 in Japanese
二千十八
Updated May 2026
Heisei 30 (the penultimate year of Heisei)
NUMERAL
2,018
KANJI
二千十八
HIRAGANA
にせんじゅうはち
ROMAJI
ni-sen-jū-hachi
Year context
Heisei 30 (平成30年). The 30th and final-but-one year of the Heisei era. Emperor Akihito announced his planned abdication for 30 April 2019. The 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in February featured significant Japanese medal performances. Heisei-era arithmetic: Heisei 1 = 1989, so Heisei 30 = 2018.
Real sentence examples
平成三十年に上皇陛下が退位の意思を表明されました (heisei san-jū-nen ni joukou heika ga taii no ishi o hyoumei saremashita): in Heisei 30, the Emperor Emeritus expressed his intention to abdicate.
二千十八年の冬季オリンピックは韓国で開催されました (ni-sen-jū-hachi-nen no touki orinpikku wa kankoku de kaisai saremashita): the 2018 Winter Olympics were held in South Korea.
Pronunciation and morphology notes
2018 in modern Japanese can be read ni-sen-jū-hachi (two thousand eighteen) or, more colloquially in news contexts, ni-sen-jū-hachi-nen. The imperial form Heisei 30 (heisei san-jū-nen) is equally common. The 2018-2019 boundary marked the Heisei-to-Reiwa transition: Heisei ended on 30 April 2019.
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