2025 in the Japanese calendar: Reiwa 7
令和7年
Reiwa 7 · written R7 on forms
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How to read it
2025 minus 2019, the year Reiwa began, plus one, gives 7: 令和7年. The shortcut Japanese people use: add 18 to a Reiwa year and you have the last two digits of the Western year — 7 + 18 = 25. On paper it is R7: 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 2025 turns 1 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 2.
2025 in the Chinese zodiac
2025 is the year of the Wood Snake (乙巳). The zodiac year began on 29 January 2025.
Other years
Every year of the Reiwa era → · How the Japanese calendar works, and every year 1868–2050