How to read it

2046 minus 2019, the year Reiwa began, plus one, gives 28: 令和28年. The shortcut Japanese people use: add 18 to a Reiwa year and you have the last two digits of the Western year — 28 + 18 = 46. On paper it is R28: 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. This is a projection. An era lasts as long as the emperor reigns, so a year after 2026 carries its Reiwa number only provisionally; a new era would restart the count at gannen from the day it began.

Other years

• 2041令和23年
• 2042令和24年
• 2043令和25年
• 2044令和26年
• 2045令和27年
• 2047令和29年
• 2048令和30年
• 2049令和31年
• 2050令和32年

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