How to read it

1958 minus 1926, the year Shōwa began, plus one, gives 33: 昭和33年. The shortcut Japanese people use: add 25 to a Shōwa year and you have the last two digits of the Western year — 33 + 25 = 58. On paper it is S33: forms print the era options — 明・大・昭・平・令, or the letters M T S H R — beside the date box, and you circle one and write the number. Someone born in 1958 turns 68 in 2026. In kazoedoshi 数え年 — the traditional count that starts at one at birth and adds a year every New Year — they are 69.

1958 in the Chinese zodiac

1958 is the year of the Earth Dog (戊戌). The zodiac year began on 18 February 1958.

Other years

• 1953昭和28年
• 1954昭和29年
• 1955昭和30年
• 1956昭和31年
• 1957昭和32年
• 1959昭和34年
• 1960昭和35年
• 1961昭和36年
• 1962昭和37年
• 1963昭和38年

Every year of the Shōwa era → · How the Japanese calendar works, and every year 1868–2050