Today in Japan History (Part 2)
Sub-Topics: Tokyo
Historical Events
Results 101 - 200 of 727
1904-02-09 - Japan declares war on Russia
1904-02-10 - Japan & Russia declares war after Japan's surprise attack on Russian fleet at Port Arthur disabled 7 Russian warships
1904-08-10 - Japanese fleet defeat Russians off Port Arthur
1904-08-24 - Field battle at Liao-Yang-200,000 Japanese against 150,000 Russian
1904-09-19 - Gen Nogi's assault on Port Arthur: 16,000 Japanese casualties
1905-01-02 - Japanese troops capture Port Arthur
1905-03-10 - Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang)
1905-05-27 - Japanese fleet destroys Russian East Sea fleet in Straits of Tushima
1905-09-05 - Treaty of Portsmouth USA, ends Russo-Japanese War
1905-09-10 - Japanese battleship Mikasa explodes
1905-11-17 - The Eulsa Treaty is signed between Japan and Korea.
1906-10-11 - San Francisco public school board sparks United States diplomatic crisis with Japan by ordering Japanese students to be taught in racially segregated schools.
1907-07-25 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
1908-06-18 - Japanese immigration to Brazil begins when 781 people arrive in Santos aboard the Kasato-Maru ship
1908-11-22 - 1st US-Japanese baseball game Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda U, 5-0
1910-08-22 - Japan annexes Korea after 5 years as a protectorate
1910-08-29 - Japan changes Korea's name to Chōsen and appoints a governor-general to rule its new colony.
1912-03-27 - 1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Wash DC
1912-08-05 - Japan's first taxicab service begins in Ginza, Tokyo.
1912-09-28 - "Kiche Maru" sinks off Japan, killing 1,000
1912-09-28 - SS Kichemaru disappears in storm off Japanese coast, 1,000 die
1913-08-16 - Tōhoku Imperial University of Japan (modern day Tōhoku University) admits its first female students.
1914-08-15 - Japan joins side of allies
1914-08-23 - Japan declares war on Germany in World War I
1914-11-07 - Japan attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai
1914-11-07 - The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
1915-01-15 - Japan claims economic control of China
1915-01-18 - Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands" to the Republic of China in a bid to increase its power in East Asia.
1917-02-28 - AP reports Mexico & Japan will allie with Germany if US enters WW I
1917-11-02 - Lansing-Ishii Agreement; US recognizes Japan's privileges in China
1918-07-12 - Japanese battleship explodes in Bay of Tokayama, 500 killed
1918-07-12 - The Japanese Imperial Navy battle ship Kawachi blows up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.
1918-08-02 - Japan announces that it is deploying troops to Siberia in the aftermath of World War I.
1919-03-01 - Demonstrations for Korean independence from Japan begin
1920-12-17 - Japan receives League of Nations mandate over Pacific islands
1921-09-03 - 16th Davis Cup: USA beats Japan in New York (5-0)
1921-11-04 - Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated in Tokyo.
1921-11-13 - US, France, Japan & British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty
1922-02-06 - US, UK, France, Italy & Japan sign Washington naval arms limitation
1922-08-26 - Japanese cruiser Niitaka leaves in storm at Kamchatka, 300 killed
1922-11-25 - Japanese crown prince Hirohito appointed prince-regent
1922-11-30 - 1st speed test of 1st genuine Japanese aircraft carrier Hosho
1923-12-27 - Unsuccessful attempt on prince-regent Hirohito of Japan
1924-09-01 - Kenchoji Rinzai temple in Kamakur Japan, heavily damaged by earthquake
1925-01-20 - USSR & Japan sign treaty of Peking, Seychelles back to USSR
1925-02-25 - The diplomatic relations between Japan and the Soviet Union were established.
1925-03-02 - Japan's House of Representatives recognizes male suffrage
1926-08-20 - Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai(NHK) is established.
1926-12-25 - Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan (1926-1989)
1926-12-26 - Prince-regent Hirohito becomes emperor of Japan
1927-03-07 - Earthquake measuring 8 on Richter scale strikes Tango, Japan
1927-04-17 - Japan's Wakarsoeki govt falls/Baron Tanaka becomes premier
1927-05-27 - Japanese military intervention in Chinese civil war
1927-12-30 - Japan dedicates 1st subway in Orient (route under 2 miles long)
1928-04-19 - Japanese troops occupies Sjantung-schiereiland
1928-05-03 - Japanese atrocities in Jinan, China.
1928-06-04 - President of the Republic of China Zhang Zuolin is assassinated by Japanese agents.
1928-11-10 - Hirohito ascended throne as Emperor of Japan
1928-11-19 - 1st issue of Time magazine, Japanese Emperor Hirohito on cover
1930-04-22 - US, Britain & Japan sign London Naval Treaty
1930-11-18 - Sōka Kyōiku Gakkai, a Buddhist association later renamed Soka Gakkai, is founded by Japanese educators Tsunesaburo Makiguchi and Josei Toda.
1930-11-25 - 690 earthquake shocks recorded in 1 day (Ito Japan)
1931-02-17 - 1st telecast of a sporting event in Japan (baseball)
1931-09-18 - Japan takes Manchuria, renames it Manchukuo
1931-09-19 - Japanese troops conquer Mukden, South Manchuria
1931-09-28 - Peking (200,000 demonstrators demand declaration of war on Japan)
1931-10-05 - 1st nonstop transpacific flight, Japan to Wash (Herndon & Pangborn)
1931-10-27 - Chuhei Numbu of Japan, sets then long jump record at 26' 2½"
1931-12-09 - Japanese army attacks Chinese province of Jehol
1931-12-11 - Japan leaves the Golden Standard
1931-12-12 - Japanese Govt of Imukai forms
1932-01-28 - Japan occupies Shanghai
1932-01-28 - Japanese forces attack Shanghai.
1932-02-04 - Japanese troop occupy Harbin, Manchuria
1932-02-04 - World War II: Japan occupies Harbin, China.
1932-02-18 - Japan declares Manchuria Independent
1932-02-20 - Japanese troops occupy Tunhua China
1932-05-05 - Japan & China sign a peace treaty
1932-05-15 - The May 15 Incident: in an attempted Coup d'état, the Prime Minister of Japan Inukai Tsuyoshi is killed.
1933-02-24 - League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria
1933-03-02 - Most powerful earthquake in 180 years hit Japan
1933-03-27 - Japan leaves League of Nations
1933-11-29 - Japan begins persecution of communists
1934-01-20 - Japan sends Henry Pu Yi as regent to emperor of Manchuria
1934-03-21 - Fire destroys Hakodate Japan, killing about 1,500
1934-03-22 - Fire destroys Hakodate Japan (kills 1,500, injures 1,000)
1934-09-21 - Typhoon strikes Honshu Island Japan, kills 4,000
1934-10-20 - All-Star team led by Babe Ruth & Connie Mack sails to Hawaii & Japan
1934-11-02 - Babe Ruth tours Tokyo Japan
1934-11-20 - Eiji Sawamura, 17, gives up 1 hit, Lou Gehrig's HR, Japan beats US 1-0
1934-12-19 - Japan agress to fleet treaty of 1922 & 1930
1934-12-26 - Yomiuri Giants, Japan's 1st professional baseball team forms
1934-12-29 - Japan renounces Wash Naval Treaty of 1922 & London Treaty of 1930
1935-06-09 - Ho-Umezu Agreement: the Republic of China, under KMT administration, recognizes Japanese occupations in Northeast China.
1935-11-09 - Japan invades Shanghai China
1935-12-08 - The Japanese military police launches a violent suppression of the religious sect Oomoto, beginning with a crackdown on the sect's operational bases of Ayabe and Kameoka in Kyoto Prefecture and the arrest of its leader Onisaburo Deguchi.
1936-02-26 - Military coup in Japan
1936-04-29 - 1st pro baseball game in Japan is played Nagoya defeats Daitokyo, 8-5
1936-05-21 - Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her hand. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
1936-06-28 - The Japanese puppet state of Mengjiang is formed in northern China.
Famous Birthdays
Results 101 - 200 of 1,078
1659-06-12 - Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Japanese samurai (d. 1719)
1667-09-28 - Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (d. 1701)
1675-10-21 - Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (d. 1710)
1686-01-19 - Hakuin Ekakuborn, Japan, Zen Buddhist
1702-01-14 - Nakamikado Emperor of Japan (d. 1737)
1712-01-28 - Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (d. 1761)
1714-11-25 - Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (d. 1783)
1720-02-08 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1750)
1730-06-21 - Norinaga Moto'ori, Japanese scientist
1737-06-20 - Tokugawa Ieharu, Japanese military (d. 1786)
1740-09-23 - Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (d. 1813)
1741-04-14 - Emperor Momozono of Japan (d. 1762)
1771-09-23 - Emperor Kokaku of Japan (d. 1840)
1777-12-02 - Henry Doeff, colonialist (wrote Dutch-Japanese dictionary)
1794-04-10 - Matthew Calbraith Perry, Commodore, opened Japan
1800-03-16 - Emperor Ninko of Japan (d. 1846)
1804-10-03 - Townsend Harris, 1st Western consul to reside in Japan
1829-01-06 - Kanagaki Robun [Bunzo Nozaki], Japanese humorist/gesaku-author
1829-06-06 - Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (d. 1862)
1833-08-11 - Kido Takayoshi, Japanese politician (d. 1877)
1835-05-31 - Hijikata Toshizō, Japanese military leader (d. 1869)
1836-01-03 - Sakamoto Ryoma, Japanese revolutionary (d. 1867)
1836-06-10 - Yamaoka Tesshu, Japanese swordsman/master of kendo
1837-10-28 - Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Japan's last shogun (d. 1913)
1840-03-16 - Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (d. 1931)
1840-10-16 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1900)
1841-10-16 - Prince Hirobumi Ito, Japanese governor of Korea (d. 1909)
1848-01-04 - Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1913)
1848-01-27 - Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (d. 1934)
1852-11-03 - Mutsuhito, 122nd emperor of Japan (1867-1912)
1858-01-25 - Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese pearl farm pioneer (d. 1954)
1862-02-17 - Mori Ōgai, Japanese novelist and poet (d. 1922)
1865-03-01 - Abe Iso, Japanese politician (d. 1949)
1865-08-15 - Usui Mikao, Japanese founder of Reiki (d. 1926)
1867-09-28 - Hiranuma Kiichirō, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1952)
1867-10-14 - Masaoka Shiki, Japan, haiku & tanka poet/diarist (Salt Water Ballads)
1867-12-24 - Kantaro Suzuki, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1948)
1868-04-12 - Akiyama Saneyuki, Japanese naval commander (d. 1918)
1868-11-10 - Gichin Funakoshi, Japanese martial artist (d. 1957)
1870-12-18 - D T Suzuki, Kanazawa Japan, Zen Buddhist scholar
1871-07-15 - Kunikida Doppo, Japanese writer (d. 1908)
1871-07-18 - Sada Yacco, Japanese stage actress (d. 1946)
1872-08-11 - Shidehara Kijuro, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1951)
1873-01-03 - Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese businessman (d. 1957)
1873-12-20 - Kwan-Ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian(d. 1948)
1875-09-12 - Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (d. 1926)
1877-04-17 - Matsudaira Tsuneo, Japanese diplomat (d. 1949)
1877-05-26 - Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34)
1878-09-22 - Shigeru Yoshida, Japanese PM (most of 1946-54)
1878-12-07 - Akiko Yosano, Japan, poet (Tangled Hair)
1879-08-31 - Joshihito, emperor of Japan (1912-26)
1883-02-20 - Shiga Naoya, Japan, novelist (Road Through Dark Night)
1884-04-04 - Isoroku Yamamoto, admiral/supreme commander of Japanese fleet
1884-12-30 - Tojo Hideki, Japanese PM during WW II
1885-01-25 - Kitahara Hakushū, Japanese poets and children's writers (d. 1942)
1885-01-27 - Maeda Seison, Japanese painter (d. 1977)
1885-11-08 - Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (d. 1946)
1886-01-28 - Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (d. 1976)
1886-07-24 - Junichiro Tanizaki, Japan, writer (Snow Dusting)
1886-09-21 - Teiichi Igarashi, Japan, climed Mt Fuji at age 99
1886-11-27 - Tsugouharu T Foujita, Japans/French painter
1887-11-15 - Hitoshi Asida, Japanese politician
1887-12-03 - Naruhiko, Prince Higashikuni of Japan (d. 1990)
1888-07-10 - Toyohiko Kagawa, Kobe, Japan, Christian social reformer
1888-07-12 - Tojohiko Kagawa, Japan, Christian-social reformer (Grain of Wheat)
1889-03-01 - Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (d. 1960)
1889-08-19 - Arthur Waley, sinologist, translator from Chinese & Japanese
1890-06-10 - Sessue Hayakawa, Japan, actor (Bridge on River Kwai, Hell to Eternity)
1890-12-06 - Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (d. 1951)
1892-01-02 - Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (d. 1962)
1892-03-01 - Ryunosuke Akutagawa, Japan, writer (Rashomon in Kappa)
1892-08-11 - Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese novelist (d. 1962)
1892-09-09 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (d. 1961)
1893-01-04 - Yone Minagawa, Japanese, became worlds Oldest living person January 29, 2007. (d. Aug. 13, 2007)
1893-09-01 - Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Japans/US painter/etcher/lithographer
1893-10-18 - Georges Ohsawa, Japanese founder of Macrobiotics (d. 1966)
1894-01-01 - Shitsu Nakano, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2007)
1894-10-21 - Rampo Edogawa, Japanese author and critic (d. 1965)
1894-11-27 - Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (d. 1989)
1894-12-19 - Yoshida Isoya, Tokyo Japan, architect (modern sukiya style)
1895-01-27 - Joseph Rosenstock, Cracow Poland, conductor (Nippon Phil Orch 1936-41)
1896-01-01 - Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japans actor/director (Jujiro, Jigoku-mon)
1896-11-13 - Nobusuke Kishi, premier of Japan (1957-60)
1897-03-04 - Francis "Lefty" O'Doul, baseball player/organized Japanese baseball
1898-12-28 - Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (d. 1947)
1899-06-11 - Yasonari Kawabata, Japan, novelist (Thousand Cranes)
1899-12-03 - Ikeda Hayato, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1965)
1900-01-01 - Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (d. 1986)
1900-01-25 - Yojiro Ishizaka, Japanese writer (d. 1986)
1900-02-11 - Josei Toda, Japanese educator (d. 1958)
1901-03-17 - Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan (Nobel 1974)
1901-03-27 - Sato Eisaku, (Lib) Japanese PM (1964-72) (Nobel 1974)
1901-04-29 - Hirohito, Emperor of Japan (1926-89)
1903-03-06 - Empress Kōjun of Japan (d. 2000)
1904-05-27 - Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (d. 1997)
1905-01-01 - Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (d. 1985)
1905-01-14 - Takeo Fukuda, 67th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1995)
1905-03-30 - Mikio Oda, Japan, triple jumper (Olympic-gold-1928)
1906-11-17 - Soichiro Honda, Japan, founder/CEO (Honda Motor Co)
1907-01-23 - Hediki Yukawa, Japan, physicist (Nobel 1949)
Famous Deaths
Results 101 - 200 of 391
1562-01-09 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1514)
1563-03-24 - Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514)
1563-06-06 - Ikeda Nagamasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1519)
1564-01-04 - Hosokawa Ujitsuna, Japanese military commander (b. 1514)
1565-06-17 - Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Japanese shogun (b. 1536)
1568-10-28 - Ashikaga Yoshihide, Japanese shogun (b. 1539)
1568-12-31 - Shimazu Tadayoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1493)
1571-07-15 - Shimazu Takahisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1514)
1573-01-25 - Hirate Hirohide, Japanese samurai (b. 1553)
1573-05-13 - Takeda Shingen, Japanese warlord (b. 1521)
1573-08-14 - Saitō Tatsuoki, Japanese warlord (b. 1548)
1573-09-23 - Azai Hisamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1524)
1575-12-23 - Akiyama Nobutomo, Japanese warrior (hanged) (b. 1531)
1576-05-30 - Harada Naomasa, Japanese retainer and samurai
1577-11-19 - Matsunaga Hisahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1510)
1578-04-19 - Uesugi Kenshin, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1530)
1579-06-25 - Hatano Hideharu, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1541)
1580-02-02 - Bessho Nagaharu, Japanese retainer (b. 1558)
1581-08-21 - Sakuma Nobumori, Japanese retainer and samurai (b. 1527)
1582-06-21 - Oda Nobunaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1534)
1582-06-23 - Shimizu Muneharu, Japanese military leader (b. 1537)
1582-07-02 - Akechi Mitsuhide, Japanese samurai (b. 1528)
1583-06-06 - Nakagawa Kiyohide, Japanese warlord (b. 1556)
1584-05-18 - Ikeda Motosuke, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1559)
1585-05-15 - Niwa Nagahide, Japanese warlord (b. 1535)
1590-10-12 - Kano Eitoku, Japanese painter (b. 1543)
1592-11-27 - Nakagawa Hidemasa, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1568)
1593-02-06 - Emperor Ogimachi of Japan (b. 1517)
1597-10-09 - Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Japanese shogun (b. 1537)
1598-09-15 - Hidejoshi, [Hijoshi], Japanese general strategist/kampaku, dies
1598-09-18 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Japanese warlord (b. 1536)
1599-04-27 - Maeda Toshiie, Japanese general (b. 1538)
1600-10-21 - Toda Katsushige, Japanese warlord (b. 1557)
1600-11-08 - Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (b. 1562)
1600-11-17 - Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander (b. 1542)
1602-12-01 - Kobayakawa Hideaki, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1582)
1603-03-25 - Ikoma Chikamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1526)
1604-08-08 - Horio Tadauji, Japanese warlord (b. 1578)
1608-03-12 - Koriki Kiyonaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1530)
1610-10-14 - Amago Yoshihisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1540)
1610-12-03 - Honda Tadakatsu, Japanese general (b. 1548)
1611-03-05 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
1611-07-26 - Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1542)
1611-08-02 - Kato Kiyomasa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1562)
1612-04-13 - Sasaki Kojirō, Japanese samurai
1612-09-09 - Nakagawa Hidenari, Japanese warlord (b. 1570)
1615-02-04 - Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese warlord (b. 1552)
1615-06-03 - Sanada Yukimura, Japanese samurai (b. 1567)
1615-06-23 - Mashita Nagamori, Japanese warlord (b. 1545)
1617-09-25 - Emperor Go-Yozei of Japan (b. 1617)
1619-08-30 - Shimazu Yoshihiro, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1535)
1623-03-19 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1556)
1625-04-27 - Mori Terumoto, Japanese warrior (b. 1553)
1625-10-22 - Kikkawa Hiroie, Japanese politician (b. 1561)
1626-09-26 - Wakisaka Yasuharu, Japanese warrior (b. 1554)
1632-10-12 - Kutsuki Mototsuna, Japanese samurai commander (b. 1549)
1633-10-26 - Horio Tadaharu, Japanese warlord (b. 1596)
1637-04-01 - Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (b. 1571)
1638-04-07 - Shimazu Tadatsune, Japanese ruler of Satsuma (b. 1576)
1645-06-13 - Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese swordsman
1654-10-30 - Emperor Go-Komyo of Japan (b. 1633)
1674-11-04 - Kano Tanjoe, Japanese painter (palaces, portraits), dies at 72
1680-09-11 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo of Japan (b. 1596)
1683-03-29 - Yaoya Oshichi, a young girl burned at the stake for arson in 17th Century Japan (b. 1667)
1685-03-22 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638)
1691-11-14 - Tosa Mitsuoki, Japanese painter (b. 1617)
1694-10-12 - Matsuo Basho, greatest Japanese haiku poet, dies
1696-12-04 - Empress Meishō, Japan (b. 1624)
1701-01-14 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord (b. 1628)
1701-04-21 - Asano Naganori, Japanese warlord (b. 1667)
1703-05-01 - Kiva Yoshinaka, Japanese monarch, murdered
1708-10-24 - Kowa Seki, Japanese mathematician
1709-02-19 - Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Japanese shogun (b. 1646)
1710-01-16 - Emperor Higashiyama of Japan (b. 1675)
1714-10-05 - Kaibara Ekiken, Japanese philosopher (b. 1630)
1716-06-02 - Ogata Korin, Japanese painter
1725-06-29 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (b. 1657)
1732-09-24 - Emperor Reigen of Japan (b. 1654)
1737-05-10 - Nakamikado Emperor of Japan (b. 1702)
1750-05-28 - Emperor Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1720)
1761-07-13 - Tokugawa Ieshige, Japanese shogun (b. 1712)
1769-01-18 - Hakuin Ekaku, Zen teacher (reformer of Rinzai school), dies in Japan
1775-10-02 - Chiyo-ni, Japanese poet (b. 1703)
1783-11-23 - Yoriyuki Arima, Japanese mathematician (b. 1714)
1784-12-25 - Yosa Buson, Japanese painter (b. 1716)
1801-11-05 - Norinaga Moto'ori, Japanese scientist, dies
1813-12-24 - Empress Go-Sakuramachi of Japan (b. 1740)
1828-05-28 - Daikokuya Kōdayū, Japanese castaway (b. 1751)
1835-10-19 - Henry Doeff, translator (Dutch-Japanese dictionary), dies at 57
1840-12-11 - Emperor Kokaku of Japan (b. 1771)
1846-02-21 - Emperor Ninko of Japan (b. 1800)
1849-05-10 - Katsushika Hokusai, Japanese painter, dies at 89
1858-10-12 - Ando Hiroshige, Japanese painter, dies at 61
1862-08-10 - Shusaku Honinbo, Japanese Go player (b. 1829)
1864-08-12 - Sakuma Shōzan, Japanese reformer (b. 1811)
1865-03-20 - Keisuke Yamanami, Japanese samurai (b. 1833)
1865-06-03 - Okada Izō, Japanese samurai (b. 1838)
1867-01-30 - Emperor Kōmei of Japan (b. 1831)
1868-07-19 - Soji Okita, Japanese samurai (b. 1842 or 1844)
1878-05-14 - Ookubo Toshimichi, Japanese statesman, samurai, and one of the three great nobles who led the Meiji Restoration (b. 1830)
