Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/July

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July 1

July 1:

Events

• 1943 - Tokyo City merges with Tokyo Prefecture and is dissolved. Since then, no city in Japan has had the name "Tokyo." (Present-day Tokyo is not considered a city.)
• 1979 - Sony introduces the Walkman.

Births

• 1916 - Olivia de Havilland, Japanese-American actress and singer
• 1920 - Harold Sakata (d. 1982), Japanese-American wrestler and actor
• 1946 - Masaharu Satō, voice actor
• 1947 - Kazuyoshi Hoshino, race car driver
• 1956 - Takayuki Godai, actor
• 1977 - Keigo Hayashi, musician
• 1990 - Natsuki Sato, singer
• 1994 - Anri Okamoto, model and actress

Film and television

• 1999 - Rasen begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Goro Kishitani
• 2002 - Lunch no Joō begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Yuko Takeuchi, Yōsuke Eguchi, Satoshi Tsumabuki, and Shinichi Tsutsumi
• 2012 - Beautiful Rain begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Etsushi Toyokawa and Mana Ashida

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July 2

July 2:

Events

• 1582 - Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.
• 1950 - Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto is destroyed by fire.

Births

• 1902 - Takahiko Yamanouchi (d. 1986), theoretical physicist
• 1964 - Hisakatsu Oya, wrestler

Film and television

• 2006 - Dare Yorimo Mama o Ai su begins airing on Tokyo Broadcasting System, starring Masakazu Tamura and Yuki Uchida

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July 3

July 3:

Births

• 1442 - Emperor Go-Tsuchimikado (d. 1500)
• 1965 - Shinya Hashimoto (d. 2005), wrestler
• 1978 - Mizuki Noguchi, runner
• 1981 - Aoi Tada, singer-songwriter and actress
• 1984 - Satomi Hanamura, actress
• 1985 - Keisuke Minami, actor and singer
• 1987 - Mikie Hara, gravure idol and actress
• 1991 - Tomomi Itano, actress and singer
• 1992 - Maasa Sudo, singer

Film and television

• 2007 - Hanazakari no Kimitachi e begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Maki Horikita, Shun Oguri, and Toma Ikuta

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July 4

July 4:

Events

• 1993 - Sumitomo Chemical's resin plant in Nihama explodes killing one worker and injuring three others.
• 2006 - North Korea tests four short-range missiles, one medium-range missile, and a long-range Taepodong-2. The long-range Taepodong-2 reportedly fails in mid-air over the Sea of Japan/East Sea.

Births

• 1330 - Ashikaga Yoshiakira (d. 1367), shogun
• 1973 - Gackt, singer-songwriter, producer, and actor
• 1973 - Keiko Ihara, race car driver
• 1976 - Daijiro Kato (d. 2003), motorcycle racer
• 1984 - Jin Akanishi, singer-songwriter and actor
• 1986 - Takahisa Masuda, singer and actor
• 1990 - Naoki Yamada, footballer
• 1996 - Mahiro Takasugi, actor
• 1999 - Moa Kikuchi, singer and model

Film and television

• 2001 - Fighting Girl begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Kyoko Fukada
• 2006 - Kekkon Dekinai Otoko begins airing on Kansai Telecasting Corporation, starring Hiroshi Abe
• 2008 - Maō begins airing on Tokyo Broadcasting System, starring Satoshi Ohno and Toma Ikuta

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July 5

July 5:

Events

• 1998 - Japan launches a probe to Mars, and thus joins the United States and Russia as a space exploring nation.

Births

• 1900 - Yoshimaro Yamashina (d. 1989), ornithologist, founded the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology
• 1929 - Chikao Ōtsuka (d. 2015), actor and voice actor
• 1951 - Keiko Fuji (d. 2013), singer and actress
• 1968 - Ken Akamatsu, illustrator
• 1968 - Kenji Itō, composer
• 1975 - Ai Sugiyama, tennis player
• 1984 - Yu Yamada, model, actress and singer

Film and television

• 2005 - Shopping Hero begins airing on TV Asahi, starring Shunsuke Nakamura and Ayako Kawahara
• 2010 - Asu no Hikari o Tsukame begins airing on Tokai TV, starring Alice Hirose, Mayo Kawasaki, Sachi Funaki, and Yūya Shimizu
• 2014 - Ao Oni, a horror film starring Anna Iriyama

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July 6

July 6:

Births

• 1960 - Asahifuji Seiya, sumo wrestler, the 63rd Yokozuna

Deaths

• 1868 - Sanosuke Harada (b. 1840), Shinsengumi Captain

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July 7

July 7:

Events

• 1937 - Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge - Japanese forces invade Beijing, China.

Births

• 1053 - Emperor Shirakawa (d. 1129)
• 1119 - Emperor Sutoku (d. 1164)
• 1891 - Tadamichi Kuribayashi (d. 1945), general and poet
• 1901 - Eiji Tsuburaya (d. 1970), cinematogapher and producer
• 1973 - Natsuki Takaya, illustrator
• 1984 - Yousuke Itou, actor and singer
• 1997 - Erina Ikuta, singer and actress

Film and television

• 2002 - Season of the Sun begins airing on Tokyo Broadcasting System, starring Hideaki Takizawa
• 2003 - Boku dake no Madonna begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Hideaki Takizawa and Kyoko Hasegawa
• 2005 - Densha Otoko begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Misaki Ito, Atsushi Itō, and Miho Shiraishi

Holidays, observances, and anniversaries

• Tanabata

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July 8

July 8:

Events

• 1864 - The Shinsengumi sabotage the Choshu-han shishi's planned attack on Kyoto, Japan at Ikedaya, this event is known as Ikedaya Jiken.
• 2004 - Michael Brown Okinawa assault incident. United States Marine Corps officer Michael Brown is convicted on Okinawa for "attempting an indecent act" and "destruction of property" and is sentenced to one year in prison, suspended for three years.

Births

• 1968 - Akio Suyama, seiyu
• 1969 - Sugizo, singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
• 1972 - Shōsuke Tanihara, actor

Deaths

• 1979 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga (b. 1906), physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

Film and television

• 2005 - Dragon Zakura begins airing on Tokyo Broadcasting System, starring Hiroshi Abe
• 2008 - Shibatora begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Teppei Koike and Suzuka Ohgo
• 2010 - Gold begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Yūki Amami and Masami Nagasawa

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July 9

July 9:

Events

• 1944 - World War II: Battle of Saipan - Americans take Saipan from the Imperial Japanese Army.

Births

• 1654 - Emperor Reigen (d. 1732)
• 1947 - Haruomi Hosono, singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
• 1970 - Masami Tsuda, author and illustrator
• 1974 - Tsuyoshi Kusanagi, actor and singer
• 1982 - Sakon Yamamoto, race car driver
• 1982 - Tomokazu Yoshida, actor
• 1990 - Sosuke Ikematsu, actor

Film and television

• 2007 - First Kiss begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Mao Inoue

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July 10

July 10:

Births

• 1419 - Emperor Go-Hanazono (d. 1471)
• 1888 - Toyohiko Kagawa (d. 1960), evangelist, author, and activist
• 1991 - Atsuko Maeda, singer and actress
• 1992 - Hitomi Miyake, idol
• 1997 - Rena Kato, singer, dancer, model, and actress

Film and television

• 2010 - Hammer Session! begins airing on Tokyo Broadcasting System, starring Mokomichi Hayami, Mirai Shida, and Manami Higa
• 2011 - Hanazakari no Kimitachi e begins airing on Fuji Television and Kyodo Television, starring Atsuko Maeda

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July 11

July 11:

Events

• 1156 - Siege of Shirakawa-den
• 1893 - The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.

Births

• 1628 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni (d. 1701), daimyo
• 1966 - Kentaro Miura, author and illustrator
• 1971 - Leisha Hailey, Japanese-American singer-songwriter and actress
• 1975 - Riona Hazuki, actress
• 1982 - Ryoji Morimoto, actor
• 1984 - Hitomi Hyuga, actress
• 1984 - Hokuto "Hok" Konishi, Japanese-American dancer
• 1985 - Aki Maeda, actress and singer
• 1987 - Shigeaki Kato, musician
• 1988 - Yuka Iguchi, voice actress

Deaths

• 1991 - Hitoshi Igarashi (b. 1947), English-Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses

Film and television

• 2011 - Full Throttle Girl begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Yui Aragaki and Ryo Nishikido
• 2015 - Hatsumori Bemars begins airing on TV Tokyo, starring Nanase Nishino
• 2015 - Tag, a suspense action horror film starring Reina Triendl, Mariko Shinoda, and Erina Mano

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July 12

July 12:

Events

• 1918 - Japanese Imperial Navy battle ship Kawachi blew up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.

Births

• 1394 - Ashikaga Yoshinori (d. 1441), shogun
• 1909 - Motoichi Kumagai (d. 2010), photographer and illustrator
• 1966 - Taiji (d. 2011), bass player and songwriter
• 1966 - Misato Watanabe, singer
• 1971 - Kristi Yamaguchi, Japanese-American figure skater
• 1979 - Maya Kobayashi, journalist
• 1983 - Megumi Kawamura, volleyball player
• 1984 - Yoshino Nanjō, voice actress and singer
• 1988 - Risa Taneda, voice actress
• 1992 - Anna Ishibashi, model and actress
• 1994 - Kanako Momota, singer-songwriter

Deaths

• 1441 - Ashikaga Yoshinori (b. 1394), shogun
• 1966 - Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (d. 1870), author of books and essays on Buddhism, Zen, and Shin

Film and television

• 2011 - Ariadne no Dangan begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Atsushi Itō, Tōru Nakamura, Katsunori Takahashi, and Manami Konishi

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July 13

July 13:

Births

• 1915 - Kaoru Ishikawa (d. 1989), author and educator
• 1967 - Akira Hokuto, wrestler
• 1968 - Omi Minami, voice actress
• 1989 - Sayumi Michishige, singer
• 1992 - Mio Ootani, gravure idol
• 1993 - Rena Nōnen, actress

Deaths

• 1761 - Tokugawa Ieshige (b. 1712), shogun

Film and television

• 2009 - Buzzer Beat begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Tomohisa Yamashita, Keiko Kitagawa, and Saki Aibu

Holidays, observances, and anniversaries

• Bon Festival - Buddhist festival to honor the dead (East Japan)

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July 14

July 14:

Births

• 1937 - Yoshiro Mori, politician, 55th Prime Minister of Japan
• 1969 - Kazushi Sakuraba, mixed martial artist and wrestler
• 1981 - Yomi, vocalist
• 1993 - Sayaka Yamamoto, idol and singer

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July 15

July 15:

Events

• 1888 - The stratovolcano Mount Bandai in Fukushima Prefecture erupts killing approximately 500 people.

Births

• 1871 - Kunikida Doppo (d. 1908), author
• 1991 - Yuki Kashiwagi, singer and actress
• 1992 - Koharu Kusumi, singer

Deaths

• 1571 - Shimazu Takahisa (b. 1514), samurai and warlord

Film and television

• 2011 - Ikemen desu ne begins airing on Tokyo Broadcasting System, starring Miori Takimoto, Yuta Tamamori, Taisuke Fujigaya, and Hikaru Yaotome

Holidays, observances, and anniversaries

• Third day of Obon feast period.

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July 16

July 16:

Events

• 2007 - An earthquake of magnitude 6.8 and aftershock of 6.6 occur off the Niigata coast, killing 8 people with at least 800 injured and damaging a nuclear power plant.

Births

• 1936 - Yasuo Fukuda, politician, 91st Prime Minister of Japan
• 1946 - Toshio Furukawa, voice actor
• 1979 - Mai Nakamura, swimmer
• 1984 - Hayanari Shimoda, race car driver
• 1985 - Yōko Hikasa, voice actress and singer
• 1986 - Misako Uno, actress, singer, and fashion designer

Deaths

• 1324 - Emperor Go-Uda (b. 1267)
• 1999 - Hiromi Yanagihara (b. 1979), singer

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July 17

July 17:

Events

• 1899 - NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.

Births

• 1933 - Keiko Awaji (d. 2014), actress
• 1984 - Asami Kimura, singer
• 1993 - Ai Okawa, idol, model, and actress

Deaths

• 1531 - Hosokawa Takakuni (b. 1484), military commander

Holidays, observances, and anniversaries

• Kyoto - Gion Matsuri.

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July 18

July 18:

Events

• 1944 - World War II: Hideki Tojo resigns as Prime Minister of Japan due to numerous setbacks in the war effort

Births

• 1871 - Sada Yacco (d. 1946), actress and dancer
• 1889 - Kōichi Kido (d. 1977), politician, 13th Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan
• 1906 - S. I. Hayakawa (d. 1992), Japanese-Canadian-American educator and politician
• 1969 - The Great Sasuke, wrestler and politician
• 1980 - Ryōko Hirosue, actress and singer
• 1991 - Mizuki Yamamoto, actress and model

Deaths

• 1965 - Otozō Yamada (b. 1881), general in the Imperial Japanese Army
• 2007 - Kenji Miyamoto (b. 1908), communist politician

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July 19

July 19:

Births

• 1956 - Yoshiaki Yatsu, wrestler and mixed martial artist
• 1961 - Hideo Nakata, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1964 - Masahiko Kondō, singer-songwriter, actor, and race car driver
• 1972 - Naohito Fujiki, actor and singer
• 1978 - Atsushi Harada, actor
• 1997 - Ohga Tanaka, actor

Deaths

• 931 - Emperor Uda (b. 867)
• 1868 - Okita Soji (b. 1844), captain
• 2004 - Zenko Suzuki (b. 1911), politician, 70th Prime Minister of Japan

Film and television

• 2014 - Gun Woman, an erotic action film starring Asami Sugiura

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July 20

July 20:

Events

• 1946 - World War II: The US Congress's Pearl Harbor Committee says Franklin D. Roosevelt was completely blameless for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and calls for a unified command structure in the armed forces.
• 1973 - Palestianian terrorists hijack a Japan Airlines jet en route from Amsterdam to Japan and force it down in Dubai.

Births

• 682 - Taichō (d. 767), Buddhist monk
• 1937 - Ken Ogata (d. 2008), actor
• 1952 - Keiko Matsuzaka, actress
• 1956 - Ryo Ishibashi, actor
• 1977 - Alessandro Santos, Brazilian-Japanese footballer
• 1987 - Kōsuke Kujirai, actor and singer

Deaths

• 1156 - Emperor Toba (b. 1103)
• 2005 - Kayo Hatta (b. 1958), Japanese-American film director

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July 21

July 21:

Events

• 1944 - World War II: Battle of Guam - American troops land on Guam near Port Apra starting the battle (ends on August 10).

Births

• 1948 - Teruzane Utada, songwriter, producer, and manager
• 1972 - Shinjiro Otani, wrestler
• 1978 - Kyoko Iwasaki, swimmer
• 1981 - Yushin Okami, mixed martial artist
• 1982 - Mao Kobayashi, actress and journalist

Deaths

• 2006 - Mako (b. 1933), Japanese-born American actor

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July 22

July 22:

Births

• 1937 - Yasuhiro Kojima (d. 1999), Japanese-American wrestler and manager
• 1943 - Masaru Emoto (d. 2014), author and activist
• 1958 - Tatsunori Hara, baseball player and coach
• 1976 - Kokia, singer-songwriter and producer
• 1985 - Akira Tozawa, wrestler
• 1986 - Haruka Suenaga, actress and gravure idol
• 1988 - Yuriko Yoshitaka, actress
• 1992 - Junki Tozuka, actor

Deaths

• 1922 - Jokichi Takamine (b. 1854), chemist

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July 23

July 23:

Events

• 1999 - ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo.

Births

• 1938 - Mickey Curtis, actor, singer, and television personality
• 1962 - Hiroshi Mikami, actor
• 1986 - Ayaka Komatsu, model and actress

Deaths

• 1990 - Kenjiro Takayanagi (b. 1899) , engineer
• 1997 - Chuhei Nambu (b. 1904), long jumper

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July 24

July 24:

Events

• 1982 - Heavy massive rain and mudslide occurred, destroying some bridges at Nagasaki, 299 killed.

Births

• 923 - Emperor Suzaku (d. 952)
• 1886 - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (d. 1965), author
• 1964 - Banana Yoshimoto, author
• 1972 - Kaiō Hiroyuki, sumo wrestler
• 1983 - Asami Mizukawa, actress

Deaths

• 1129 - Emperor Shirakawa (b. 1053)
• 1927 - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (b. 1892), writer

Film and television

• 2009 - Orthros no Inu begins airing on Tokyo Broadcasting System, starring Hideaki Takizawa and Ryo Nishikido

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July 25

July 25:

Events

• 1869 - The daimyō begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
• 1894 - The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
• 1907 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
• 1908 - Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.

Births

• 1562 - Katō Kiyomasa (d. 1611), warlord
• 1974 - Kenzo Suzuki, wrestler
• 1981 - Yūichi Komano, footballer

Film and television

• 2015 - Tōkyō Mukokuseki Shōjo, a suspense thriller film starring Nana Seino, Nobuaki Kaneko, and Lily

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July 26

July 26:

Events

• 1941 - World War II: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States.
• 1963 - The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan.

Births

• 1879 - Shunroku Hata (d. 1962), field marshal
• 1931 - Takashi Ono, gymnast
• 1936 - Tsutomu Koyama (d. 2012), volleyball player and coach
• 1939 - Jun Henmi (d. 2011), author and poet
• 1985 - Natsuki Katō, model and actress
• 1988 - Sayaka Akimoto, singer, actress, and dancer
• 1998 - Maya Sakura, singer and actress

Deaths

• 1380 - Emperor Kōmyō (b. 1322)
• 1611 - Horio Yoshiharu (b. 1542), daimyo

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July 27

July 27:

Events

• 1941 - Japanese troops occupy French Indo-China.
• 1976 - Former prime minister Kakuei Tanaka is arrested on suspicion of violating foreign exchange and foreign trade laws in connection with the Lockheed scandal.

Births

• 1854 - Takahashi Korekiyo (d. 1936), politician, 20th Prime Minister of Japan, victim of the February 26 Incident
• 1923 - Mas Oyama (d. 1994), South Korean-Japanese martial artist, founded Kyokushin
• 1947 - Kazuyoshi Miura (d. 2008), businessman
• 1972 - Takako Fuji, actress
• 1981 - Mari Hoshino, actress and singer
• 1984 - Tsuyoshi Nishioka, baseball player
• 1987 - Risa Yoshiki, model, actress, and singer
• 1991 - Rena Matsui, actress and singer

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July 28

July 28:

Events

• 1957 - Heavy rain and mudslide occur at Isahaya in western Kyūshū, 992 killed.

Births

• 1938 - Alberto Fujimori, Peruvian politician, 90th President of Peru, given Japanese citizenship when he fled Peru
• 1948 - Eiichi Ohtaki (d. 2013), singer-songwriter and producer
• 1952 - Amano Yoshitaka, artist
• 1960 - Yōichi Takahashi, illustrator
• 1966 - Shikao Suga, singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1967 - Taka Hirose, bass player
• 1978 - Hitomi Yaida, singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1980 - Harumi Nemoto, model
• 1987 - Sumire (d. 2009), model
• 1991 - Rina Aizawa, actress and gravure idol

Deaths

• 1965 - Edogawa Ranpo (b. 1894), author and critic

Film and television

• 2012 - Eight Ranger, a film starring You Yokoyama, Subaru Shibutani, Shingo Murakami, Ryuhei Maruyama, Shota Yasuda, Ryo Nishikido, Tadayoshi Okura, and Hiroshi Tachi

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July 29

July 29:

Events

• 1858 - United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.

Births

• 1975 - Yoshihiro Akiyama, South Korean-Japanese judoka
• 1991 - Miki Ishikawa, Japanese-American actress and singer
• 1998 - Anna Murashige, singer

Deaths

• 1982 - Harold Sakata (b. 1920), Japanese-American wrestler and actor

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July 30

July 30:

Events

• 1945 - World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen.
• 1953 - Rikidōzan holds a ceremony announcing the establishment of the Japan Pro Wrestling Alliance.
• 1971 - An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Japan killing 162.

Births

• 1984 - Ryōhei Kimura, voice actor
• 1985 - Shinwa Kataoka, actor
• 1993 - Miho Miyazaki, singer and actress

Deaths

• 1912 - Emperor Meiji (b. 1852)
• 1965 - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki (b. 1886), author

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July 31

July 31:

Events

• 781 - The oldest recorded eruption of Mt. Fuji (Traditional Japanese date: July 6, 781).
• 1936 - The International Olympic Committee announces that the 1940 Summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo. However, the games are given back to the IOC after the Second Sino-Japanese War breaks out, and are eventually cancelled altogether because of World War II.
• 1951 - Japan Airlines is established.

Births

• 1143 - Emperor Nijō (d. 1165)
• 1943 - Sab Shimono, Japanese-American actor
• 1953 - Tōru Furuya, voice actor
• 1967 - Minako Honda (d. 2005), singer and actress
• 1967 - Mitsuo Iwata, voice actor
• 1980 - Rina Aiuchi, singer

Deaths

• 1973 - Azumafuji Kin'ichi (b. 1921), sumo wrestler, the 40th Yokozuna
• 1986 - Chiune Sugihara (b. 1900), diplomat

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