How to read it

2007 minus 1989, the year Heisei began, plus one, gives 19: 平成19年. The shortcut Japanese people use: subtract 12 from a Heisei year and you have the last two digits of the Western year — 19 − 12 = 07. On paper it is H19: 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 2007 turns 19 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 20.

2007 in the Chinese zodiac

2007 is the year of the Fire Boar (丁亥). The zodiac year began on 18 February 2007.

Other years

• 2002平成14年
• 2003平成15年
• 2004平成16年
• 2005平成17年
• 2006平成18年
• 2008平成20年
• 2009平成21年
• 2010平成22年
• 2011平成23年
• 2012平成24年

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