Events
- 1870 - Japan's first shoe factory opens (Traditional Japanese Date: Fifteenth Day of the Third Month, 1870)
- 1929 - Japan's first train terminal shopping center, the Hankyu Department Store, opens at Umeda Station in Osaka.
- 1935 - Japan's begins radio broadcasts for schools.
- 1937 - Helen Keller visits Japan.
- 1967 - Ryokichi Minobe is elected as Tokyo's first reform governor.
- 1983 - Tokyo Disneyland opens.
Births
- 1933 - Kōji Yada (d. 2014), voice actor
- 1988 - Manami Numakura, voice actress
- 1991 - Daiki Arioka, actor and singer
Film and television
- 1996 - Long Vacation begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Takuya Kimura and Tomoko Yamaguchi
- 2011 - Inu o Kau to Iu Koto begins airing on TV Asahi, starring Ryo Nishikido, Asami Mizukawa, Kokoro Kuge, and Ryutaro Yamasaki
- 2012 - Ataru begins airing on Tokyo Broadcasting System, starring Masahiro Nakai
- 2012 - Kazoku no Uta begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Joe Odagiri
- 2014 - Bitter Blood begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Takeru Satoh and Atsuro Watabe