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February 1
February 1:
Events
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1614 - The missionary expulsion order is issued by
Toyotomi Hideyoshi in a crackdown against
Christianity. (Traditional
Japanese Date: Twenty-third Day of the Twelfth Month, 1613)
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1895 - The first
streetcar begins operation in
Kyoto.
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1899 -
Telephone service begins between
Tokyo and
Osaka.
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1911 - Regulations for postal
special delivery are passed. Service begins on
February 11.
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1928 -
Japanese Victor sells the first Western
phonograph albums.
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1942 - Rationing of clothing,
miso and
soy sauce begins.
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1953 -
NHK begins its first
television broadcast. At the time there were only 866 viewers under contract. At a time when public officials made only 8,000 yen per year,
televisions were prohibitively expensive at 150,000 yen. However, by 1958, 1,000,000 sets had been sold and by 1962 10,000,000 sets had been sold.
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1954 -
Marilyn Monroe and
Joe DiMaggio visit
Japan.
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1960 - The first underground parking lot opens in
Tokyo.
Births
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1917 -
Eiji Sawamura (d. 1944), baseball player and soldier
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1958 -
Ryō Horikawa, voice actor
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1962 -
Tomoyasu Hotei, singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
- 1962 -
Takashi Murakami, painter and sculptor
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1964 -
Kiriko Isono, comedian, entertainer, and actress
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1970 -
Yasuyuki Kazama, race car driver
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1971 -
Tomomi Hayashi, Japanese-Estonian architect
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1972 -
Kami (d. 1999), drummer
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1973 -
Makiko Ohmoto, voice actress
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1983 -
Anna Suzuki, actress and model
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1988 -
Masahiro Higashide, actor and model
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1992 -
Mao Ichimichi, actress and model
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1994 -
Ryo Yoshizawa, actor
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February 2
February 2:
Events
Births
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1892 -
Tochigiyama Moriya (d. 1959), sumo wrestler, the 27th
Yokozuna
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1949 -
Yasuko Namba (d. 1996), mountaineer
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1950 -
Osamu Kido, wrestler
- 1950 -
Genichiro Tenryu, wrestler
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1965 -
Naoki Sano, wrestler and mixed martial artist
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1984 -
Mao Miyaji, actress
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1985 -
Renn Kiriyama, actor
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1986 -
Miwa Asao, volleyball player
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1991 -
Shohei Nanba, actor
Deaths
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February 3
February 3:
Events
Births
Deaths
Holidays, observances, and anniversaries
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February 4
February 4:
Events
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1348 - Kusanoki Masatsura commits suicide at the battle of Shijōnawate. (Traditional
Japanese Date: Fifth Day of the First Month, 1348)
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1614 - Shimazu Iehisa of the
Satsuma-han presents Japan's first gunship to the
Shōgun (Traditional
Japanese Date: Twenty-sixth Day of the Twelfth Month, 1613)
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1703 - In
Edo (now
Tokyo), 46 of the
Forty-seven Ronin commit
seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.
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1801 -
Inō Tadataka presents the
Shōgun with
Japan's first
surveyed map. (Traditional
Japanese Date: Twenty-first Day of the Twelfth Month, 1800)
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1860 - The ship
Kanrin Maru leaves
Shinagawa for the
United States. (Traditional
Japanese Date: Thirteenth Day of the First Month, 1860)
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1869 -
Lotteries are outlawed by the new
Meiji government. (Traditional
Japanese Date: Twenty-third Day of the Twelfth Month, 1868)
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1872 - Japan's first
court of law, the Tokyo Court, is established. (Traditional
Japanese Date: Twenty-sixth Day of the Twelfth Month, 1871)
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1932 -
World War II:
Japan occupies
Harbin, China.
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1959 - One tsubo of land in
Ginza (approximately 3.3 square meters) sells for 1,560,000 yen (approximately $4,300 at the then applicable exchange rate or approximately $30,500 in today's money), becoming the most expensive land in
Japan.
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1966 - An
All Nippon Airways
Boeing 727 crahes in
Tokyo Bay, killing all 133 people on board.
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1976 - It is disclosed in a
Senate hearing that the
Lockheed Corporation had bribed government officials in
Japan in order to secure aircraft.
Births
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1865 -
Abe Isoo (d. 1949), minister and politician
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1925 -
Christopher Zeeman, Japanese-English mathematician and academic
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1948 -
Mienoumi Tsuyoshi, sumo wrestler
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1953 -
Kitarō, keyboard player, composer, and producer
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1954 -
Shigeru Chiba, actor and voice actor
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1958 -
Saburō Tokitō, actor
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1966 -
Kyōko Koizumi, actress and singer
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1968 -
Kuranosuke Sasaki, actor
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1978 -
Shingo Kawaguchi, actor
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1980 -
Kenta Kiritani, actor and singer
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1989 -
Shogo Suzuki, actor and musician
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1990 -
Haruka Tomatsu, voice actress and singer
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1997 -
Ayami Nakajō, actress and model
Film and television
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February 5
February 5:
Events
Births
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1852 -
Terauchi Masatake (d. 1919), field marshal and politician, 9th
Prime Minister of Japan
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1917 -
Isuzu Yamada (d. 2012), actress
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1944 -
Tamanoumi Masahiro (d. 1971), sumo wrestler, the 51st
Yokozuna
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1953 -
Takashi Ishikawa, wrestler
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1955 -
Kenji Ohba, actor
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1956 -
Mao Daichi, actress
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1972 -
Koriki Chōshū, comedian
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1977 -
Yuko Aoki, singer and model
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1982 -
Yū Kobayashi, voice actress
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1986 -
Takayuki Seto, footballer
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1994 -
Arisa Komiya, actress and model
- 1994 -
Saki Nakajima, singer
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February 6
February 6:
Events
Births
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976 -
Emperor Sanjō (d. 1017)
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1536 -
Sassa Narimasa (d. 1588), samurai
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1843 -
Inoue Kowashi (d. 1895), scholar and politician
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1880 -
Nishinoumi Kajirō II (d. 1931), sumo wrestler, the 25th
Yokozuna
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1919 -
Takashi Yanase (d. 2013), poet and illustrator, created
Anpanman
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1930 -
Jun Kondo, physicist and academic
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1961 -
Yuko Kobayashi, voice actress
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1967 -
Izumi Sakai (d. 2007), singer-songwriter
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1968 -
Akira Yamaoka, composer and producer
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1969 -
Masaharu Fukuyama, singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
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1975 -
Tomoko Kawase, singer-songwriter and producer
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1980 -
Mamiko Noto, voice actress and singer
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1985 -
Joji Kato, speed skater
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1987 -
Hayato Ichihara, actor
Deaths
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February 7
February 7:
Events
Births
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572 -
Prince Shōtoku (d. 622)
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1973 -
Mie Sonozaki, voice actress and singer
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1974 -
Nujabes (d. 2010), DJ and producer
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1977 -
Tsuneyasu Miyamoto, footballer
- 1977 -
Eri Tanaka, actress and voice actress
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1982 -
Osamu Mukai, actor
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1983 -
Sho Kamogawa, footballer
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1988 -
Ai Kago, singer, actress, and author
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1991 -
Takahisa Maeyama, actor
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1992 -
Maimi Yajima, singer
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1996 -
Mai Hagiwara, singer
Deaths
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February 8
February 8:
Events
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1567 -
Ieyasu obtains permission from the court to change his surname from
Matsudaira to
Tokugawa. (Traditional
Japanese Date: Twenty-ninth Day of the Twelfth Month, 1566)
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1882 - The Hokkaidō Development Agency is abolished.
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1887 - Japan adopts the official postal mark (〒).
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1958 - 9,500 people come to see the first western style carnival is held in
Yūrakuchō,
Tokyo.
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1959 - The 6.1 km
Kurobe Tunnel in the northern
Japan Alps is completed, allowing work on the
Kuroyon Power Plant to continue.
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1982 - 33 people are killed and 29 are injured in the Hotel New Japan fire in
Akasaka,
Tokyo.
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1983 - The average height of high school senior boys reaches 170 cm (5' 7").
Births
Deaths
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February 9
February 9:
Events
Births
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1533 -
Shimazu Yoshihisa (d. 1611), daimyo
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1859 -
Akiyama Yoshifuru (d. 1930), general
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1867 -
Natsume Sōseki (d. 1916), author and poet
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1898 -
Jūkichi Yagi (d. 1927), poet
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1912 -
Futabayama Sadaji (d. 1968), sumo wrestler, the 35th
Yokozuna
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1932 -
Tatsuro Hirooka, baseball player and manager
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1979 -
Hiroko Anzai, actress and model
- 1979 -
Akinori Iwamura, baseball player
- 1979 -
Toshiaki Kasuga, comedian
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1981 -
Rina Chinen, entertainer, singer, model, and actress
- 1981 -
Daisuke Sekimoto, wrestler
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1982 -
Ami Suzuki, singer-songwriter and actress
Deaths
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February 10
February 10:
Events
Births
Deaths
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February 11
February 11:
Events
Births
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1900 -
Jōsei Toda (d. 1958), educator and activist
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1947 -
Yukio Hatoyama, engineer and politician, 60th
Prime Minister of Japan
- 1947 -
Kikko Matsuoka, actress
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1948 -
Yoshihito, Prince Katsura (d. 2014)
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1960 -
Momus, Scottish-Japanese author, journalist, and songwriter
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1963 -
Dan Osman (d. 1998), Japanese-American rock climber
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1972 -
Noboru Yamaguchi (d. 2013), South Korean-Japanese author
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1997 -
Yuumi Shida, model and actress
Deaths
Holidays, observances, and anniversaries
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February 12
February 12:
Events
Births
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661 -
Princess Ōku (d. 702)
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1218 -
Kujō Yoritsune (d. 1256), shogun
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1917 -
Raizo Matsuno (d. 2006), politician
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1920 -
Yoshiko Yamaguchi (d. 2014), Chinese-Japanese actress, singer, and politician
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1941 -
Naomi Uemura (d. 1984), mountaineer and explorer
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1974 -
Toranosuke Takagi, race car driver
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1985 -
Leilani Gaja, model and actress
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1987 -
Miiko Morita, model, actress, and television personality
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1988 -
Nana Eikura, actress and radio host
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1994 -
Miori Ichikawa, singer
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1995 -
Rina Kawaei, singer
Deaths
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February 13
February 13:
Events
Births
Deaths
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February 14
February 14:
Events
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1917 - A magazine for housewives, Shufu no Tomo, goes on sale for the first time. By 1941, it reached a circulation of 1,800,000.
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1942 –
Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of
Singapore.
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1944 – World War II: Anti-
Japanese revolt on
Java.
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1945 -
Japan sets a record for the most snowfall with 785 centimeters of accumulation at
Mori-Miyanohara Station in
Nagano Prefecture.
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1973 - The
yen is allowed to trade freely against the
dollar. Trading opens that 277 yen to the dollar after having been fixed at 308 yen to the dollar just the day before.
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1992 -
Sagawa Kyūbin's former president, Watanabe Hiroyasu, is arrested with 3 others in the Sagawa Kyūbin scandal.
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1996 - Han'yū Yoshiharu becomes the first person to win seven straight crowns in
Shōgi (Japanese chess.)
Births
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1916 -
Masaki Kobayashi (d. 1996), director and producer
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1927 -
Seizō Katō (d. 2014), voice actor
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1969 -
Kazuko Miyata, actress
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1971 -
Risa Hirako, model
- 1971 -
Noriko Sakai, singer and actress
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1972 -
Hiroshi, comedian
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1973 -
Yuka Sato, figure skater and sportscaster
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1980 -
Sayaka Yamaguchi, actress
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1981 -
Ayako Hamada, Mexican-Japanese wrestler
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1985 -
Natsume Sano, model and actress
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February 15
February 15:
Events
Births
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1920 -
Eio Sakata (d. 2010),
Go player
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1942 -
Masaomi Kondō, actor
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1954 -
Tatekawa Shinosuke, entertainer
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1956 -
Hitoshi Ogawa (d. 1992), race car driver
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1967 -
Chiemi Hori, singer, actress, and entertainer
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1968 -
Yōka Wao, actress
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1970 -
Mariko Yoshida, wrestler
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1977 -
Gran Naniwa (d. 2010), wrestler
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1986 -
Ami Koshimizu, voice actress and singer
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1988 -
Hironori Kusano, singer and actor
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1990 -
Masashi Ebinuma, judoka
Deaths
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February 16
February 16:
Events
Births
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1222 -
Nichiren (d. 1282), monk, founded Nichiren Buddhism
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1543 -
Kanō Eitoku (d. 1590), painter and educator
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1931 -
Ken Takakura (d. 2014), actor and singer
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1948 -
Kaiketsu Masateru (d. 2014), sumo wrestler and coach
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1950 -
Kazuki Tomokawa, singer
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1951 -
Yumi Takigawa, actress and singer
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1972 -
Naomi Nishida, actress
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1975 -
Nanase Aikawa, singer
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1976 -
Kyo, singer-songwriter and producer
- 1976 -
Joe Odagiri, actor and singer
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1977 -
Hinako Saeki, actress
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1987 -
Yuu Kashii, actress and model
- 1987 -
Ryosuke Miura, actor
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1995 -
Mayu Matsuoka, actress
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1996 -
Nana Komatsu, actress and model
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February 17
February 17:
Events
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1592 -
Toyotomi Hideyoshi orders up his troops for an invasion of
Korea. (Traditional
Japanese Date: Fifth Day of the First Month, 1592)
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1904 - First performance of
Madame Butterfly
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1906 - The Bungei Kyōkai (Literary Society) is formed by
Tsubouchi Shōyō and Shimamura Hōgetsu, and Ōsumi Shigenobu is appointed as its head. Three years later a drama research institute for the training of actors is formed, and in May
1911, graduates of the research institute stage their first performance of
Hamlet at the
Imperial Theater.
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1937 - A failed plot is exposed by a group of five would-be
Nichiren martyrs, known as the Shinau Dan (the "Let's die Group"), who were planning to commit ritualistic suicide in front of the
Imperial Palace and the
Diet
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1944 -
World War II:
Battle of Eniwetok Atoll begins. The battle ends in an American victory on
February 22
- 1944 - World War II:
Operation Hailstone begins. U.S. naval air, surface, and submarine attack against Truk (
Chuuk),
Japan's main base in the central
Pacific, in support of the
Eniwetok invasion
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1970 - The Sanrizuka Boys Action Squad is formed to protest the construction of
Narita Airport
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1972 -
Japanese Red Army leader Nagata Yōko and others are arrested in
Gunma Prefecture and it is discovered that they were responsible for over 14 lynchings
-
1977 - The
Mito[
disambiguation needed] District Court rules that the
Japan Self Defense Forces are constitutional
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1978 -
Bob Dylan visits Japan for the first time
Births
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1796 -
Philipp Franz von Siebold (d. 1866), German physician and botanist, first European to teach Western medicine in Japan
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1862 -
Mori Ōgai (d. 1922), author and poet
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1955 -
Shun Sugata, actor
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1960 -
Shunji Kosugi, wrestler
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1972 -
Yuki, singer-songwriter
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1974 -
Kaoru, guitarist, songwriter, and producer
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1975 -
Michiko Kichise, actress
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1980 -
Aya Endō, voice actress
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1984 -
Kenta Kamakari, actor, voice actor, and singer
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1985 -
Hiroko Sato, actress, singer, and model
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February 18
February 18:
Events
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661 -
Empress Saimei travels to the
Dōgo Hot Springs. (Traditional
Japanese Date: Fourteenth Day of the First Month, 661)
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1772 - Tanuma Okitsugu is appointed Elder Councilor. (Traditional
Japanese Date: Fifteenth Day of the First Month, 1772)
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1904 - An anti-smoking campaign starts and smoking is prohibited on
Tokyo's city trains.
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1935 -
Minobe Tatsukichi's theory that the emperor is merely a legal figure that exercises power on behalf of the nation in whom sovereignty resides comes under attack in the upper house.
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1938 - The
Ministry of the Interior issues an order that prohibits the publication, scheduled for the next day, of the March issue of Chūō Kōron. Publication is prohibited because of its inclusion of a novel written by
Ishikawa Tatsuzō, based on his experiences in
Shanghai, entitled "Living Soldier". The story was considered anti-military.
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1950 -
Sapporo's first annual
Snow Festival takes place.
Births
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February 19
February 19:
Events
Births
Deaths
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February 20
February 20:
Events
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668 - Prince Naka no Ōe accedes to the throne as
Emperor Tenji. (Traditional
Japanese Date: Third Day of the First Month, 668)
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1582 -
Itō Mansho's entourage leaves for
Rome. (Traditional
Japanese Date: Twenty-eighth Day of the First Month, 1582)
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1923 - The Maru Building, at the time the largest office building in Asia, was completed on this date after 25 months of construction. It was located in front of
Tokyo Station in
Marunouchi and was only nine stories high with one underground level. It was built at a total cost of 11 million yen. The ground floor consisted of a number of book stores and the second through the ninth floor was filled with over 350 tenants.
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1928 - Japan's first public election was held on this day. Voting was limited to males 25 or older.
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1933 -
Kobayashi Takiji, author of such proletariat novels as Kani Kōsen (The Floating Crab Cannery), is arrested, tortured and brutally murdered at the
Tsukiji police station.
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1944 – World War II: The
United States takes
Eniwetok Island.
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1968 -
Korean resident of Japan Kim Hiro shoots and kills two
yakuza gangsters in Shimizu and then takes 20 hostages at the Sumatakyō hot spring resort the next day. He spends the next several days using the media to complain about the treatment of Koreans in Japan until his arrest on the 24th.
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1977 - A record 10,710 runners participate in Tokyo's Ōme Marathon.
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1985 - The Council on National Language promulgates its reforms on modern
kana usage.
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1998 – American figure skater
Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the
Winter Olympics in
Nagano, Japan.
Births
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1925 -
Tochinishiki Kiyotaka (d. 1990), sumo wrestler, the 44th
Yokozuna
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1936 -
Shigeo Nagashima, baseball player and coach
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1943 -
Antonio Inoki, wrestler, mixed martial artist, and politician
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1950 -
Ken Shimura, comedian and actor
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1969 -
Gedo, wrestler
- 1969 -
Azusa Watanabe, actress
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1980 -
Yuichi Nakamura, voice actor
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1984 -
Keisuke Koide, actor
Deaths
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February 21
February 21:
Events
Births
Deaths
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February 22
February 22:
Events
Births
Film and television
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February 23
February 23:
Events
Births
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1646 -
Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (d. 1709), shogun
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1943 -
Kin'ya Kitaōji, actor
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1951 -
Shigefumi Mori, mathematician
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1953 -
Satoru Nakajima, race car driver
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1956 -
Brother Tom, singer and entertainer
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1960 -
Naruhito, Crown Prince of Japan
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1969 -
Miyako Itō, voice actress
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1970 -
Shoko Aida, singer and actress
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1971 -
Ryohei Odai, actor and voice actor
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1976 -
Satoshi Yoneyama, wrestler
-
1978 -
Yuka Motohashi, actress
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1986 -
Kazuya Kamenashi, singer-songwriter and actor
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1993 -
Kasumi Ishikawa, table tennis player
Deaths
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February 24
February 24:
Events
Births
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February 25
February 25:
Events
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1902 - Tokyo Gas Co. gets an exclusive license to begin selling gas powered
rice cookers. It is around this time that gas begins to be used for heating in addition to lighting.
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1947 - One hundred eighty four people are killed when a train on the
Hachikō Line in
Saitama
jumps the tracks.
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1969 - The Fuji Evening News (Yūkan Fuji) is launched.
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1974 - The Budget Committee of the
Lower House holds a hearing on consumer prices.
-
1983 -
Sakai City in
Osaka passes the nation's first ethics regulations.
Births
Deaths
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February 26
February 26:
Events
Births
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1911 -
Tarō Okamoto (d. 1996), painter and sculptor
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1924 -
Noboru Takeshita (d. 2000), soldier and politician, 74th
Prime Minister of Japan
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1956 -
Keisuke Kuwata, singer-songwriter and producer
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1969 -
Hitoshi Sakimoto, composer and producer
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1981 -
Kaori Yoneyama, wrestler
-
1985 -
Miki Fujimoto, singer and actress
-
1986 -
Crystal Kay, singer-songwriter and actress
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1987 -
Jin Hiramaki, actor, singer, and model
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1992 -
Ai Shinozaki, model and singer
Deaths
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February 27
February 27:
Events
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1870 - The rising sun design of
Japan's national flag, initially established for use on merchant ships, is announced. (Traditional
Japanese Date: Twenty-seventh Day of the First Month, 1870)
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1933 - British playwright
Bernard Shaw visits Japan.
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1936 -
Tokyo establishes
martial law.
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1942 –
World War II: During the
Battle of the Java Sea, an
allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the
Java Sea in the
Dutch East Indies
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1949 - Arsonists set fire to
Matsuyama Castle.
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1950 - The authority to grant the
Sumō title of
Yokozuna, or Grand Master, is transferred from the Yoshida family to the newly established Yokozuna Promotion Council.
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1955 -
NHK begins same-day election coverage with coverage of the
Lower House elections.
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1966 - The first "Consumer Price Mayday" is held with women holding placards saying things like "prices are so high I can't get married." According to 1965 statistics, the average salary of businessmen was 23,200 yen per month, the average total savings was 138,000 yen and leisure expenses cost an average of 3,000 yen per month.
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1985 - Former Prime Minister
Kakuei Tanaka is hospitalized for a stroke.
Births
Deaths
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February 28
February 28:
Events
Births
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1950 -
Futatsuryū Jun'ichi (d. 2014), sumo wrestler and coach
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1960 -
Tōru Ōkawa, voice actor
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1961 -
Toshihiko Tahara, singer
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1971 -
Junya Nakano, pianist and composer
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1973 -
Mari Hanafusa, actress
- 1973 -
Masato Tanaka, wrestler
-
1978 -
Rei Kikukawa, actress, model, and television host
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1991 -
Hikaru Yamamoto, actress
-
1997 -
Kyoko Yoshine, actress
Deaths
Film and television
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