How to read it

2010 minus 1989, the year Heisei began, plus one, gives 22: 平成22年. The shortcut Japanese people use: subtract 12 from a Heisei year and you have the last two digits of the Western year — 22 − 12 = 10. On paper it is H22: 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 2010 turns 16 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 17.

2010 in the Chinese zodiac

2010 is the year of the Metal Tiger (庚寅). The zodiac year began on 14 February 2010.

Other years

• 2005平成17年
• 2006平成18年
• 2007平成19年
• 2008平成20年
• 2009平成21年
• 2011平成23年
• 2012平成24年
• 2013平成25年
• 2014平成26年
• 2015平成27年

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