2005 Kenzo Tange, Japanese Architect
1998 Kenichi Fukui, Japanese Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1981) dies at 79
1997 Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (Shogun), dies at 77
1997 Juzo Itami, Japanese director, commits suicide at 64
1997 Japanese Maglev train builders claim world speed record at 332 MPH
1997 5 sue Japanese PM Ryutaro Hashimoto, because his smoking has violated the country's constitution guaranteeing a wholesome life
1996 Endo Shusaku, Japanese writer (Sea and Poison/Silence), dies at 73
1995 Charles James Dunn, japanese scholar, dies at 80
1995 Japanese police arrest cult leader Shoko Asahara and charged him with Nerve-gas attack on Tokyo's subways two months earlier
1995 5 die by poison gas in Japanese subway
1994 Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth for 3rd time
1994 1st Japanese gay pride parade
1994 Taeko Kuwata, Japanese/Belgian pianist, commits suicide
1994 Japanese premier Tsutomu Hata resigns
1993 Sanzo Nosaka, co-founder of Japanese Communist Party (1922), dies
1993 Masugi Ibuse, Japanese author (Kuroi ame (Black rain)), dies at 95
1993 Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth
1993 Japanese crown prince Naruhito weds Masaka Owada
1993 Chishu Ryu, Japanese actor (Autumn Afternoon), dies of cancer at 86
1993 Ishiro Honda, Japanese director/producer (Godzilla), dies at 81
1993 Taikichiro Mori, Japanese real estate developer, dies at 88
1993 Kobo Abe, Japanese writer (Wife in the Sand), dies at 68
1992 Japanese crown prince Naruhito announces engagement to Masaka Owada
1992 Osamu Inaba, Japanese min of justice, dies
1992 Owners approve sale of Seattle Mariners to a Japanese group
1992 Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese rock artist, dies at 26 of pulmonary edema
1992 George Bush gets ill and vomits on Japanese prime minister's lap
1991 Hitoshi Igarashi, Japanese interpreter (Satanic Verses), murdered
1991 Mazda becomes 1st Japanese car to capture Le Mans 24 hour race
1991 Mount Unzen erupts in Japan, worst eruption in Japanese history
1991 Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian, dies
1990 Calif's Chuck Finley and Seattle's Randy Johnson combine to pitch a no-hitter in exhibition game between U.S. and Japanese all-star teams
1990 Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon
1990 Naruhito Higashi-Kuni, Japanese PM (1945), dies
1989 Japanese scientist achieve -271.8 degrees C, coldest temp ever recorded
1989 Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese Businessman
1987 Japanese bank buys "Lady McGill" stamp for $1,100,000
1986 Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km
1986 Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley's Comet at 109,800 km
1985 Japanese Boeing 747SR crashes, 520 die (worst in-flight toll)
1985 Japanese space probe Sakigake launched to Halley's comet
1984 Chiaki Kuriyama, Japanese Actress
1983 Utada Hikaru, Japanese Musician
1981 U.S. submarine George Washington rams Japanese freighter Nisso Maru
1978 Ayumi Hamasaki, Japanese Musician
1977 Namie Amuro, Japanese Musician
1976 Takeo Fukuda becomes Japanese premier
1976 Japanese beat Russian for Olympic gold in woman's volleyball
1976 Japanese ex-premier Tanaka arrested, Lockheed Affair
1975 Japanese Junko Tabei became 1st woman to reach Mt Everest's summit
1974 Clarence Jones of Kintetsu Buffaloes hits his 38th HR, 1st American to win a Japanese HR title
1974 3 Japanese kidnap French ambassador in Hague
1974 Yoshida Isoya, Japanese architect (modern sukiya style), dies at 79
1974 Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended
1973 Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese Athlete
1972 Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese author (Nobel 1968), dies at 72
1971 Japanese Boeing 727 collides with an F-86 fighter killing 162
1970 Yukio Mishima, Japanese author/nationalist (Harakiri), dies at 45
1969 North Korea shoots at U.S. airplane above Japanese sea
1968 Japanese Trade and Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in San Francisco
1968 Tsugouharu T Foujita, Japanese/French painter, dies at 81
1966 Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34), dies at 89
1966 Joichi Ito, Japanese Businessman
1965 Japanese community of San Francisco holds Masanori Murakami Day at Candlestick Park to honor 1st Japanese player to play in major leagues
1965 Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese writer (Key), dies at 79
1965 Jim Bowie, Japanese/US baseball infielder, Oakland Athletics
1964 Japanese beat Russian for 1st Olympic Gold in woman's volleyball
1964 Masanori Murakami is 1st Japanese player in majors (New York Mets)
1964 Princess Masako, Japanese Royalty
1960 Inejiro Asanuma, leader Japanese Socialist Party, murdered at 61
1960 Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese Christian-social reformer/writer, dies at 71
1960 Pope John raises the 1st Japanese, 1st African and 1st Filipino cardinal
1959 Koichi Tanaka, Japanese Scientist
1959 Hitoshi Ashida, Japanese politician, dies at 71
1959 Nobuo Uematsu, Japanese Composer
1959 Ken Watanabe, Japanese Actor
1957 1st Japanese ambassador to Israel
1956 Toshihiko Seko, Japanese runner, world record 25/30 km
1955 Shoko Asahara, [Chizuo Matsumoto], Japanese sect leader
1954 Japanese government of Joshida, resigns
1954 Godzilla, Japanese monster, Godzilla
1954 Japanese ferry boat Toya Maru sinks in Strait of Tsugaru, 1172 die
1954 Kazuo Ishiguro, Japanese Author
1952 Liberal Party wins Japanese elections
1952 Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese Designer
1951 President Truman addresses opening of Japanese Peace Treaty Conference
1949 Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer
1948 Seishiro Itagaki, Japanese General/min of War, hanged
1948 Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
1947 General MacArthur approves Japanese constitution
1946 Emperor Hirohito proclaims new Japanese constitution
1946 Count Hisaichi Terauchi, Japanese fieldmarshal, dies
1946 International Milt Tribunal opens in Tokyo against 28 Japanese war criminals
1946 1st election for Japanese Diet
1945 Fumimaro Konu, Japanese prince/PM (1937-39, 40-41), commits harakiri
1945 Japanese surrender Taiwan to Gen Chiang Kai-shek
1945 Japanese in S Korea, Taiwan, China, Indochina surrender to Allies
1945 Hideki Tojo, Japanese PM during most of WW II, attempts suicide rather than face war crimes tribunal attempt fails, later he is hanged
1945 Japanese at Rioekioe-islands surrender
1945 Japanese forces in Philippines surrender to Allies
1945 U.S. troops land in Japan after Japanese surrender
1945 Japanese diplomats board Missouri to receive instructions on Japan's surrender at the end of WW II
1945 Takijiro Ohnishi, led Japanese kamikaze pilots (harakiri), dies
1945 South Korea liberated from Japanese rule
1945 Japanese city Toyama destroyed by B-29's
1945 After delivering the Atomic Bomb across the Pacific, the cruiser USS Indianapolis is torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine
1945 Japanese premier Suzuki disregards U.S. ultimatum to surrender
1945 Declaration of Potsdam: US/Brit/China demands Japanese surrender
1945 Japanese government disregards U.S. ultimatum
1945 Last organized Japanese defiance broken, Tarakan
1945 Lieutenant General Ushijima, Japanese commander, commits suicide at Okinawa
1945 Isamu Tsjo, Japanese chief-staff 32nd Army, commits harakiri
1945 U.S. defeat Japanese forces on Okinawa during WW II
1945 Allies capture Rangoon from the Japanese
1945 Japanese army evacuates Rangoon
1945 U.S. aircraft carrier Franklin heavy damaged in Japanese air raid
1945 U.S. planes intercept Japanese fleet heading for Okinawa on a suicide superbattleship Yamato and four destroyers were sunk
1945 Japanese giant battleship Yamato heads to Okinawa
1945 Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese and 6,000 U.S. killed
1945 Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima
1945 1st Japanese flying bombs (ochas) attack Okinawa
1945 Japanese proclaim "independence" of Indo-China
1945 Manila freed from Japanese
1945 900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days
1945 Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths
1944 Japanese army evacuates harbor city Akyab
1944 Japanese kamikaze crashes into U.S. cruiser Nashville, kills 138
1944 Sekio Nishina, Japanese inventor (kaiten-suicide submarine), dies
1944 Battle at Cape Engano: 4 Japanese ships sink
1944 Battle in Straits of Surigao: Japanese fleet destroyed
1944 Last Japanese troops driven out of India
1944 U.S. recaptures Guam from Japanese
1944 U.S. regains possession of Guam from Japanese
1944 Japanese suicide attack on U.S. lines in Guam
1944 U.S. forces land on Guam to get rid of Japanese invaders
1944 Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sinks by U.S. air attack
1944 Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho/Shokaku sinks in Marianas
1944 Japanese kamakize attacks on U.S. lines at Saipan
1944 Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan
1944 1st Japanese kamikaze attack, U.S. fleet near Iwo Jima
1944 U.S. attacks Japanese fleet in Philippines Sea
1944 Battle of Philippines Sea, 300 Japanese aircraft shot down
1944 Japanese troops conquer Changsha China
1944 15 U.S. aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas
1944 Japanese advance in Hangkhou, China
1944 1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down
1944 Japanese troops conquer Jessami, East-India
1944 Mineichi Koga, Admiral of Japanese fleet, dies
1944 Allied troops 1st set foot on Japanese territory
1943 Operations begin at PETA Java, defending (Japanese) fatherland
1943 Japanese premier Hideki Tojo visits Java
1943 I Yamamoto, Admiral of Japanese fleet, dies
1943 Japanese troops conquer Indin
1943 Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers
1943 Japanese evacuate Guadalcanal, ends epic battle
1943 Japanese Mount Austen on Guadalcanal captured
1943 Japanese government in Java limits sale and use of motorcars
1942 1st Japanese women camp (Ambarawa) goes into use
1942 1st Japanese bombing of Calcutta
1942 Lt-general Kumakashi Harada becomes Japanese commander on Java
1942 Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
1942 U.S. Navy defeats Japanese in WW II Battle of Cape Esperance
1942 Japanese attack on Port Moresby repelled
1942 Battle of Edson's Ridge (Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal
1942 Battle of Edson's Ridge (2nd Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal
1942 Japanese planes drop incendiary bombs on Oregon
1942 Kiyoano Ichiki, Japanese colonel (WW II), dies
1942 Japanese submarine in mouth of Columbia River, Oregon
1942 Japanese troops lands on Attu, Aleutian Islands
1942 Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway
1942 Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians
1942 Japanese troops conquer Kalewa
1942 Aircraft carrier Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack at Coral Sea
1942 Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion
1942 Corregidor and Philippines surrender to Japanese Armies
1942 Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu and Tanambogo, Solomon Islands
1942 Japanese troops occupy Mandalay Burma
1942 Japanese troop march into Lashio, cuts off Burma Road
1942 James H. Doolittle bombs Tokyo and other Japanese cities
1942 Japanese occupying army on Java installs film censorship
1942 Battle of Bataan, US and Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japanese at Bataan
1942 Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean
1942 U.S. move native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers
1942 Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra
1942 Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma
1942 KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies
1942 Japanese troop march into Batavia
1942 Japanese troops occupy Kalidjati airport in Java
1942 Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies
1942 Battle of Java Sea began 13 U.S. warships sunk - 2 Japanese
1942 Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, California
1942 Lt. E. H. O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers
1942 About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin
1942 Japanese troops land on Timor
1942 Japanese troop land on Bali
1942 Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra
1942 Singapore surrenders to Japanese
1942 Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra
1942 Japanese troops land near Makassar, South Celebes
1942 Congress advises Franklin D. Roosevelt that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the U.S. war effort
1942 1st Japanese air raid on Java
1942 Japanese troops land on Ambon
1942 Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain
1942 Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain
1942 Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
1942 Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
1942 Japanese invade Burma
1942 Japanese forces invade Burma
1942 Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo
1942 Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese Statesman
1942 Japanese troops occupy Manila Philippines
1942 Rose Bowl played in North Carolina due to Japanese threat-Oregon 20, Duke 16
1941 Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi/Kagu back in Kure, Japan
1941 American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese
1941 Japanese troops lands on Mindanao
1941 Sarawak occupied by Japanese
1941 USS Swordfish becomes 1st U.S. submarine to sink a Japanese ship
1941 Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing)
1941 Japanese occupy Guam
1941 Japanese troops landed on northern Luzon in the Philippines
1941 Japanese troops overrun Guam
1941 Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, a date that will live in infamy
1941 1st Japanese submarine sunk by a U.S. ship (USS Ward)
1941 Iida, Japanese pilot/lt, dies in battle at 28
1941 Dutch and British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore
1941 Naval Intelligence ceases bugging Japanese consul
1941 Japanese emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war
1941 Japanese Emperor Hirohito consults with admirals Shimada and Nagano
1941 Japanese carrier force left its base and moves east toward Pearl Harbor
1941 Adm Nomura and Kurusu hands over Japanese last diplomatic note
1941 Japanese fleet readies assault on Pearl Harbor
1941 Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima leave Pearl Harbor
1941 Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima arrive in Pearl Harbor
1941 Japanese forces land in Indo-China
1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China
1941 Naomi Uemura, mountain climber, 1st Japanese to scale Everest
1941 Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore
1941 Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese Director
1940 Japanese troops attack French Indo-China
1940 British government signs Bruma law under Japanese pressure
1939 Russ Indigirka capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 750 die
1939 Japanese invasion army driven out of Mongolia
1939 Isoroku Yamamoto appointed supreme commander of Japanese fleet
1939 Kenzo Takada, Japanese director, Dream After Dream
1938 Japanese troops occupies Hankou and Wuhan
1938 Japanese troops occupies Canton
1938 Paul Seiko Chihara, born in Seattle Washington, US and Japanese composer
1937 Japanese troops conquer/plunder Nanjing
1937 Japanese aircraft shell and sink U.S. gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized and eventually paid U.S. $2.2M in reparations)
1937 Japanese fleet blockades Chinese coast
1937 Japanese attack Shanghai
1937 Japanese troops occupies Peking and Tientsin
1937 Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China
1937 Japanese and Chinese troops clash, (Marco Polo Bridge), becomes WW II
1937 Prince Konoye becomes Japanese premier
1935 Toshihiko Fukui, Japanese Public Servant
1935 Oe Kenzaburo, Japanese novelist, Catch, Personal Matter
1935 Kenzaburo Oe, Japanese Writer
1934 Heihatjiro Tojo, Japanese Admiral (Russian-Japanese War), dies
1933 Kenji Miyazawa, Japanese Poet
1933 League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria
1932 Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese Politician
1932 Takuma Dan, Japanese baron/financier/industrial, murdered
1932 Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China
1932 Junnosuke Inouye, Japanese minister of Finance, murdered
1932 Japanese troop occupy Harbin, Manchuria
1932 Kazuo Inamori, Japanese business executive, Kyocera Ceramics Co
1931 Japanese Government of Imukai forms
1931 Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol
1931 Japanese troops conquer Mukden, South Manchuria
1931 Sawako Ariyoshi, Japanese writer, Compound Pollution, Doctor's Wife
1929 Giitji Tanaka, Japanese baron/general/premier (1927-29), dies at 66
1928 1st issue of Time magazine, Japanese Emperor Hirohito on cover
1928 Japanese troops occupies Sjantung-schiereiland
1928 Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese Writer
1927 Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war
1924 Noboru Takeshita, Japanese PM, 1987-89
1922 1st speed test of 1st genuine Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho
1922 Japanese crown prince Hirohito appointed prince-regent
1922 Japanese cruiser Niitaka leaves in storm at Kamchatka, 300 killed
1922 Donald L. Keene, born in New York City, Japanese translator/critic
1918 Japanese battleship explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed
1918 Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese PM, 1972-74, convicted of bribe-taking
1916 Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese director, Joi-uchi
1915 Charles James Dunn, Japanese scholar
1913 Kenzo Tange, Japanese Architect
1912 SS Kichemaru disappears in storm off Japanese coast, 1,000 die
1912 1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Washington D.C.
1909 Seicho Matsumoto, Dutch Japanese detective/playwright, 10 to Sen
1909 Masami Akita, Japanese Musician
1905 Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes
1905 Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima
1905 Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang)
1905 Japanese troops capture Port Arthur
1904 Gen Nogi's assault on Port Arthur: 16,000 Japanese casualties
1904 Field battle at Liao-Yang-200,000 Japanese against 150,000 Russian
1904 Japanese fleet defeat Russians off Port Arthur
1904 Shunryu Suzuki, Japanese Leader
1901 Sato Eisaku, Lib, Japanese PM, 1964-72, Nobel 1974
1898 Ibuse Masuji, Japanese writer, Yohai Taicho, Kuroi Ame
1897 Francis "Lefty" O'Doul, baseball player and organized Japanese baseball
1896 Kenji Miyazawa, Japanese Poet
1894 Korea declares independence from China, asks for Japanese aid
1894 Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese Businessman
1889 Arthur Waley, sinologist, translator from Chinese and Japanese
1888 Hiroshi "Can" Kikuchi, Japanese stagewriter, Tjitj Kaeru
1887 Hitoshi Asida, Japanese politician
1885 1st Japanese arrive in Hawaii
1884 Tojo Hideki, Japanese PM during WW II
1884 Isoroku Yamamoto, admiral and supreme commander of Japanese fleet
1881 Japanese giant salamander, dies in Dutch zoo at 55; oldest amphibian
1878 Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese PM, most of 1946-54
1877 Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War, 1931-34
1873 Origin of Japanese Era
1867 Natsume Soseki [Natsume Kinnosuke], Japanese author, Kokoro
1863 Japanese battle cruiser shoots at Dutch warship Medusa, kills 4
1862 Mori Ogai [Mori Rintaro, Japanese author, Maihime/Gan
1860 Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh
1860 1st Japanese ambassador arrives in San Francisco en route to Washington
1858 Ando Hiroshige, Japanese painter, dies at 61
1849 Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese painter, dies at 89
1836 Yamaoka Tesshu, Japanese swordsman/master of kendo
1829 Kanagaki Robun [Bunzo Nozaki], Japanese humorist/gesaku-author
1801 Norinaga Moto'ori, Japanese scientist, dies
1730 Norinaga Moto'ori, Japanese scientist
1703 Kiva Yoshinaka, Japanese monarch, murdered
1694 Matsuo Basho, Japanese Poet
1694 Matsuo Basho, greatest Japanese haiku poet, dies
1674 Kano Tanjoe, Japanese painter (palaces, portraits), dies at 72
1616 Ieyasu Tokugawa, Japanese Statesman
1610 Hasegawa Tohaku, Japanese painter
1602 Kano Tanju, Japanese painter, palaces, portraits
1598 Hidejoshi, [Hijoshi], Japanese general strategist/kampaku, dies
1543 Ieyasu Tokugawa, Japanese Statesman
1476 Motonoboe, Japanese painter, Kano-school
1253 Dogen Kigen, 1st Zen patriarch of Japanese Soto line, dies at 53
1253 Dogen Zenji, Japanese Philosopher
1200 Dogen Kigen, Japan, Zen teacher, 1st patriarch of the Japanese Soto
1200 Dogen Zenji, Japanese Philosopher
1181 Supernova observed by Chinese and Japanese astronomers
794 Japanese emperor Kammu deallocates residence of Nara to Kioto
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