Today in Japan History (Part 3)
Sub-Topics: Tokyo
Historical Events
Results 201 - 300 of 727
1936-07-31 - Tokyo Japan is awarded the 1940 Olympics (later cancelled)
1936-11-15 - Nazi-Germany & Japan sign Anti-Komintern pact
1936-11-25 - Germany & Japan sign anti-Komintern pact
1936-12-12 - Chinese leader Chiang Kai-shek declares war on Japan
1937-02-06 - K Elizabeth Ohi becomes 1st Japanese-US female lawyer
1937-06-01 - Prince Konoye becomes Japanese premier
1937-07-07 - Japanese & Chinese troops clash, (Marco Polo Bridge), becomes WW II
1937-07-15 - Japanese attack Marco Polo Bridge, invade China
1937-07-29 - Japanese troops occupies Peking & Tientsin
1937-08-13 - Japanese attack Shanghai
1937-08-14 - China declares war on Japan
1937-08-25 - Japanese fleet blockades Chinese coast
1937-11-09 - Japans army conquers Shanghai
1937-12-01 - Japan recognizes Franco govt
1937-12-12 - Japanese aircraft shell & sink US gunboat Panay on Yangtze River in China. (Japan apologized & eventually paid US $2.2M in reparations)
1937-12-14 - Japanese troops conquer/plunder Nanjing
1938-06-17 - Japan declares war on China
1938-07-20 - Finland awarded 1940 Olympic games after Japan withdraws
1938-09-03 - 1940 Olympic site changed from Tokyo Japan to Helsinki Finland
1938-09-27 - League of Nations declares Japan the aggressor against China
1938-10-21 - Japanese troops occupies Canton
1938-10-25 - Japanese troops occupies Hankou & Wuhan
1939-03-01 - Japanese Imperial Army ammunition dump exploded at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94.
1939-03-17 - Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945): The Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and the Japanese breaks out.
1939-08-30 - Isoroku Yamamoto appointed supreme commander of Japanese fleet
1939-08-31 - Japanese invasion army driven out of Mongolia
1939-12-12 - Russ Indigirka capsizes in blizzard off Japanese coast; 750 die
1940-04-22 - Rear Adm Joseph Taussig testifies before US Senate Naval Affairs Committee that war with Japan is inevitable (He was right)
1940-07-18 - British govt signs Bruma law under Japanese pressure
1940-09-26 - Japanese troops attack French Indo-China
1940-09-27 - Nazi-Germany, Italy & Japan sign 10 year formal alliance (Axis)
1940-10-07 - World War II: the McCollum memo proposes bringing the U.S. into the war in Europe by provoking the Japanese to attack the United States.
1940-10-24 - Japan eliminates US terms (strike, play ball) from baseball
1941-01-27 - Peruvian agent Rivera-Schreiber warns of Japanese assault on Pearl Harbor
1941-01-28 - French-Thai War: Final air battle of the conflict. Japanese-mediated armistice goes into effect later in the day.
1941-02-08 - Japanese armored barges cross Strait of Johore to attack Singapore
1941-04-13 - Russian-Japan no-attack treaty goes into effect
1941-04-13 - Pact of neutrality between the USSR and Japan is signed.
1941-07-24 - FDR demands Japanese troops out of Indo-China
1941-07-25 - FDR bans selling benzine/gasoline to Japan
1941-07-26 - US embargo on oil-export to Japan
1941-07-27 - Japanese forces land in Indo-China
1941-10-15 - Japan Tojo regime forms
1941-10-27 - Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan
1941-11-01 - Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima arrive in Pearl Harbor
1941-11-05 - Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima leave Pearl Harbor
1941-11-06 - Japanese fleet readies assault on Pearl Harbor
1941-11-20 - Adm Nomura & Kurusu hands over Japanese last diplomatic note
1941-11-26 - Japanese carrier force left its base & moves east toward Pearl Harbor
1941-11-30 - Japanese Emperor Hirohito consults with admirals Shimada & Nagano
1941-12-01 - Japanese emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war
1941-12-02 - Naval Intelligence ceases bugging Japanese consul
1941-12-06 - Dutch & British pilots see Japanese invasion fleet at Singapore
1941-12-07 - Japanese attack Pearl Harbor (a date that will live in infamy)
1941-12-07 - 1st Japanese submarine sunk by a US ship (USS Ward)
1941-12-08 - London: Dutch government declares Japan the war
1941-12-08 - US & Britain declare war on Japan, US enters WW II
1941-12-09 - China declares war on Japan, Germany & Italy
1941-12-10 - Japanese troops landed on northern Luzon in the Philippines
1941-12-10 - Japanese troops overrun Guam
1941-12-11 - Japanese attack Wake Island (only failed WW II-landing)
1941-12-11 - Japanese occupy Guam
1941-12-15 - USS Swordfish becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship
1941-12-16 - Sarawak occupied by Japanese
1941-12-18 - Japanse troops land on Hong Kong
1941-12-20 - Japanese troops lands on Mindanao
1941-12-22 - Japans invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines
1941-12-23 - American forces on Wake Island surrender to Japanese
1941-12-23 - Japan begins assault on Rangoon Burma
1941-12-24 - 1st ships of admiral Nagumo's Pearl Harbor-fleet return to Japan
1941-12-25 - Japan announces surrender of British-Canadian garrison at Hong Kong
1941-12-25 - Japanese aircraft carriers Akagi/Kagu back in Kure, Japan
1941-12-27 - Japan bombs Manila even though it was declared an "open city"
1942-01-01 - Rose Bowl played in NC due to Japanese threat-Oregon 20, Duke 16
1942-01-02 - Japanese troops occupy Manila Philippines
1942-01-10 - Japan invades North-Celebes, Neth Indies
1942-01-11 - Japan conquers Kuala Lumpur, Malaya
1942-01-14 - Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo
1942-01-19 - Japanese forces invade Burma
1942-01-20 - Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
1942-01-20 - Japanese invade Burma
1942-01-21 - Japanese air raid on Rabaul New Britain
1942-01-22 - Japanese air raid on Rabaul, New Britain
1942-01-23 - Japanese troops occupy Rabaul New Britain
1942-01-30 - Japanese troops land on Ambon
1942-02-02 - LA Times urges security measures against Japanese-Americans
1942-02-03 - 1st Japanese air raid on Java
1942-02-08 - Congress advises FDR that, Americans of Japanese descent should be locked up en masse so they wouldn't oppose the US war effort
1942-02-09 - Japanese troops land near Makassar, South Celebes
1942-02-14 - Japanese parachutists land near oil center Palembang Sumatra
1942-02-15 - Japanese troops march into Palembang, South Sumatra
1942-02-15 - Singapore surrenders to Japanese
1942-02-18 - Japanese troop land on Bali
1942-02-19 - About 150 Japanese warplanes attacked the Australian city of Darwin
1942-02-19 - FDR orders detention & internment of all west-coast Japanese-Americans
1942-02-19 - Japanese troop land on Timor
1942-02-20 - Lt E H O'Hare single-handedly shoots down 5 Japanese heavy bombers
1942-02-23 - Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, Calif
1942-02-27 - Battle of Java Sea began 13 US warships sunk-2 Japanese
1942-02-28 - Japanese land in Java, last Allied bastion in Dutch East Indies
Famous Birthdays
Results 201 - 300 of 1,078
1908-01-01 - Kinue Hitoma, Japan, 800m runner (Oly-silver-1928)
1909-06-19 - Osamu Dazai, Japan, novelist (Tsugaru, No Longer Human)
1909-10-20 - Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (d. 1993)
1909-12-21 - Seicho Matsumoto, Japanese mystery writer and journalist (d. 1992)
1910-03-12 - Masayoshi Ohira, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1980)
1910-03-23 - Akira Kurosawa, Tokyo Japan, director (7 Samurai, Living)
1911-01-11 - Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2004)
1911-02-26 - Tarō Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (d. 1996)
1911-05-07 - Ishiro Honda, Japanese film director (d. 1993)
1911-11-17 - Nobutaka Shikanai, Japans media CEO (Fujisankei Com Group)
1911-12-09 - Ryūzō Sejima, Japanese educator (d. 2007)
1914-03-26 - Toru Kumon, Japanese educator (d. 1995)
1914-05-19 - Go Seigen, Japanese Go player
1914-05-20 - Hideko Maehata, Japanese swimmer (d. 1995)
1914-11-29 - Taisen Deshimaru, Saga City Japan, found several Zen centers in France
1915-03-31 - Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese military man (d. 1997)
1915-06-24 - Charles James Dunn, Japanese scholar
1915-11-20 - Kon Ichikawa, Japan, director (Matatabi, Money Talks)
1916-02-14 - Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese director (Joi-uchi)
1916-07-01 - Olivia de Havilland, Tokyo Japan, actress (Adventures of Robin Hood)
1916-08-25 - Saburo Sakai, Japanese aviator (d. 2000)
1917-02-12 - Raizo Matsuno, Japanese politician (d. 2006)
1917-10-09 - Kusuo Kitamura, Japan, 1500m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1932)
1917-10-22 - Joan Fontaine, Tokyo Japan, actress (Gunga Din, Ivanhoe, Rebecca)
1917-12-24 - Kim Jong-suk, Wife of Kim Il-sung, mother of Kim Jung-Il, "The Heroine of the Anti-Japanese Revolution" (d. 1949)
1918-05-04 - Kakuei Tanaka, Japanese PM (1972-74), convicted of bribe-taking
1918-05-27 - Yasuhiro Nakasone, premier of Japan (1982-87)
1918-10-04 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1998)
1919-06-05 - Akeo Watanabe, Tokyo Japan, conductor (Nippon Phil Orch 1956-68)
1919-09-29 - Masao Takemoto, Japan, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1960)
1919-10-08 - Kiichi Miyazawa, premier Japan (1991-93)
1920-03-23 - Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and coach
1920-10-23 - Ted Fujita, Japanese meteorologist (d. 1998)
1921-01-26 - Akio Morita, Kasugaya Japan, CEO (Sony)
1922-03-08 - Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese soldier and Mangaka
1922-05-15 - Jakucho Setouchi, Japanese writer and Buddhist nun
1922-06-18 - Donald L Keene, NYC, Japanese translator/critic
1922-10-04 - Shin Kyuk-Ho, Japanese businessman
1923-07-27 - Masutatsu Oyama, Japanese Kyokushin founder (d. 1994)
1924-02-26 - Noboru Takeshita, Japanese PM (1987-89)
1924-03-07 - Kobo Abe, Tokyo Japan, playwright (Woman, the Dunes)
1924-03-25 - Machiko Kyo, Osaka Japan, actor (Gate of Hell, Rashomon, Ugetsu)
1924-11-13 - Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (d. 1994)
1924-11-25 - Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, critic, and philosopher.
1925-01-14 - Yukio Mishima, Japan, novelist (Temple of Golden Pavilion)
1925-03-12 - Leo Esaki, [Esaki Reona], Japan, physicist (Tunnel effect-Nobel 1973)
1926-06-15 - Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (d. 2006)
1926-09-15 - Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (d. 2006)
1927-11-07 - Hiroshi Yamauchi, Kyoto Japan, owner (Seattle Mariners)
1927-11-12 - Yutaka Taniyama, Japanese mathematician (d. 1958)
1928-01-02 - Daisaku Ikeda, Japanese writer
1928-01-19 - Dainin Katagiri, Osaka Japan, Zen teacher, associate of Shunryu Suzuki
1928-01-22 - Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historian (d. 2004)
1928-06-26 - Yoshiro Nakamatsu, Japanese inventor
1928-11-03 - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (d. 1989)
1929-01-04 - Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist, sculptor
1929-02-20 - Toshiro Mayuzumi, Yokohama Japan, composer (Sphenogramme)
1929-12-12 - Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese musician
1930-06-03 - Ben Wada, Japanese television producers
1930-10-08 - Toru Takemitsu, Tokyo Japan, composer (Ki No Kyoko)
1931-01-02 - Toshiki Kaifu, premier of Japan (1989-91)
1931-01-20 - Sawako Ariyoshi, Japanese writer (Compound Pollution, Doctor's Wife)
1931-01-20 - Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese songwriter and pianist (d. 1992)
1931-02-16 - Ken Takakura, [Goichi Oda], Kita Japan, actor (Story of Antarctic)
1931-04-11 - Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese composer
1931-05-20 - Chiharu Igaya, Japan, slalom (Olympic-silver-1956)
1931-07-26 - Takashi Ono, Japan, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1956, 60)
1931-11-29 - Shintaro Katsu, Japanese actor (d. 1997)
1932-01-30 - Kazuo Inamori, Japanese business executive (Kyocera Ceramics Co)
1932-01-30 - Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician
1932-02-09 - Tatsuro Hirooka, Japanese baseball player
1932-03-31 - Nagisa Oshima, Kyoto Japan, director (Town of Love & Hope)
1932-09-30 - Shintaro Ishihara, Japanese author and politician (Governor of Tokyo)
1932-12-24 - On Kawara, Japanese conceptual artist
1933-01-02 - Morimura Seiichi, Japanese novelist
1933-02-18 - Yoko Ono Lennon, [Mrs John Lennon], Tokyo Japan, vocalist(?)
1933-02-18 - Yoko Ono, Japanese-born singer
1933-04-10 - Rokusuke Ei, Japanese lyricist and author
1933-08-01 - Masaichi Kaneda, Japanese baseball player
1933-08-09 - Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, Japanese television personality and children's author
1933-12-01 - Fujiko F. Fujio, Japanese cartoon artist (d. 1996)
1933-12-10 - Mako, Japanese-born American actor (d. 2006)
1933-12-23 - Akihito, emperor of Japan (1989- )
1934-04-08 - Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (d. 2007)
1934-06-18 - Mitsuteru Yokoyama, Japanese manga artist (d. 2004)
1934-10-20 - Michiko, empress of Japan
1934-12-28 - Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (d. 1987)
1935-01-31 - Oe Kenzaburo, Japanese novelist (Catch, Personal Matter)
1935-09-14 - Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (d. 2008)
1935-11-28 - Prince Hitachi, Japanese royalty
1936-01-21 - Koji Hashimoto, Japanese film director (d. 2005)
1936-03-31 - Dokumamushi Sandayu, Japanese actor
1936-08-20 - Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1936-10-16 - Akira Machida, Japanese judge
1936-10-17 - Hiroo Kanamori, Japanese seismologist
1936-10-29 - Akiko Kojima, Japanese model
1936-12-11 - Taku Yamasaki, Japanese politician
1937-07-14 - Yoshiro Mori, Japanese politician
1937-07-20 - Ken Ogata, Japanese actor
1937-07-22 - Yasuhiro Kojima, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
Famous Deaths
Results 201 - 300 of 391
1881-06-03 - Japanese giant salamander, dies in Dutch zoo at 55; oldest amphibian
1900-08-25 - Kuroda Kiyotaka, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1840)
1909-10-26 - Horiboemi Ito, Prince of Japan, assassinated by a Korean
1912-02-16 - St. Nikolai of Japan, Eastern Orthodox priest (b. 1836)
1912-04-13 - Ishikawa Takuboku, Japanese author (b. 1886)
1912-07-30 - Mutsuhito, 122nd emperor of Japan (1867-1912), dies at 60
1912-09-13 - Maresuke Nogi, Japanese general (b. 1849)
1913-10-10 - Katsura Taro, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)
1916-12-09 - Natsume Sōseki, Japanese novelist (b. 1867)
1921-11-04 - Takasji Hara, premier of Japan, murdered
1922-07-22 - Jokichi Takamine, Japanese chemist (b. 1854)
1926-09-11 - Matsunosuke Onoe, Japanese actor (b. 1875)
1926-12-25 - Yoshihito, 123rd Emperor of Japan (1912-26), dies at 47
1927-07-24 - Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese writer (b. 1892)
1929-09-29 - Giitji Tanaka, Japanese baron/general/premier (1927-29), dies at 66
1931-06-13 - Shibasaburo Kitasato, Japanese physician (b. 1851)
1931-11-11 - Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (b. 1840)
1932-02-09 - Junnosuke Inouye, Japanese minister of Finance, murdered
1932-03-05 - Takuma Dan, Japanese baron/financier/industrial, murdered
1932-05-15 - Ki Inukai, premier Japan (1931-32), murdered
1932-05-16 - Ki Imukai, premier of Japan (1931-32), murdered
1934-05-30 - Togo Heihachiro, Japanese admiral (b. 1848)
1938-11-20 - Enzo Matsunaga, Japanese writer (b. 1895)
1939-09-07 - Kyoka Izumi, Japanese novelist (b. 1873)
1941-12-07 - Iida, Japanese pilot/lt, dies in battle at 28
1941-12-07 - Notable casualties of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
1941-12-07 - Mervyn S. Bennion, United States Navy Captain, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (b. 1887)
1941-12-07 - Herbert C. Jones, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (b. 1918)
1941-12-07 - Thomas J. Reeves, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (b. 1895)
1941-12-07 - Franklin Van Valkenburgh, United States Navy, Medal of Honor recipient, killed in Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (b. 1888)
1942-08-21 - Kiyoano Ichiki, Japanese colonel (WW II), dies
1943-04-18 - I Yamamoto, admiral of Japanese fleet, dies
1944-03-31 - Mineichi Koga, admiral of Japanese fleet, dies
1944-11-20 - Sekio Nishina, Japanese inventor (kaiten-suicide submarine), dies at 21
1945-06-22 - Isamu Tsjo, Japanese chief-staff 32nd Army, commits harakiri
1945-06-23 - Lt Gen Ushijima, Japanese commander, commits suicide at Okinawa
1945-08-15 - Korechika Anami, Japanese War Minister (b. 1887)
1945-08-16 - Takijiro Ohnishi, led Japanese kamikaze pilots (harakiri), dies
1945-12-16 - Fumimaro Konu, Japanese prince/PM (1937-39, 40-41), commits harakiri
1946-02-23 - Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (hanged) (b. 1885)
1946-06-12 - Count Hisaichi Terauchi, Japanese fieldmarshal, dies
1946-06-26 - Yosuke Matsuoka, Minister for Foreign Affairs of Japan (b. 1880)
1946-12-07 - Sada Yacco, Japanese stage actress (b. 1871)
1947-06-18 - Shigematsu Sakaibara, Japanese admiral (b. 1898)
1948-08-10 - Kwan-Ichi Asakawa, Japanese historian(b. 1873)
1948-12-21 - Seishiro Itagaki, Japanese General/min of War, hanged
1948-12-23 - Hideki Tojo, Japan PM (1941-44) & 6 Japs, hanged for war crimes at 64
1949-01-25 - Makino Nobuaki, Japanese statesman (b. 1861)
1951-01-10 - Yoshio Nishina, Japanese physicist (b. 1890)
1951-03-10 - Kijūrō Shidehara, Prime minister of Japan (b. 1872)
1953-05-14 - Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Japans/US painter/etcher, dies at 59
1953-05-28 - Hori Tatsuo, Japanese writer (b. 1904)
1954-09-21 - Kokichi Mikimoto, Japanese inventor (b. 1858)
1956-08-24 - Kenji Mizoguchi, Japanese film director (b. 1898)
1957-01-25 - Kiyoshi Shiga, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1871)
1957-01-25 - Ichizo Kobayashi, Japanese industrialist and Minister of Commerce and Industry (b. 1873)
1957-04-26 - Gichin Funakoshi, Father of Japanese Shotokan Karatedo (b. 1868)
1957-09-22 - Toyoda Soemu, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
1958-04-02 - Josei Toda, Japanese second president of the Buddhist association Soka Gakkai (b. 1900)
1959-06-20 - Hitoshi Ashida, Japanese politician, dies at 71
1959-12-21 - Rosanjin, Japanese calligrapher, restaurateur and ceramicist (b. 1883)
1960-04-23 - Toyohiko Kagawa, Japanese Christian-social reformer/writer, dies at 71
1960-10-12 - Inejiro Asanuma, leader Japanese Socialist Party, murdered at 61
1960-12-26 - Watsuji Tetsuro, Japanese philosopher (b. 1889)
1961-10-18 - Tsuru Aoki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1892)
1962-09-06 - Seiichiro Kashio, Japanese tennis player (b. 1892)
1962-09-07 - Eiji Yoshikawa, Japanese novelist (b. 1892)
1963-12-12 - Yasujiro Ozu, Japanese film director (b. 1903)
1964-10-28 - Reginald Horace Blyth, Zen teacher/scholar, dies in Japan at 66
1965-07-28 - Edogawa Ranpo, Japanese author (b. 1894)
1965-07-30 - Junichiro Tanizaki, Japanese writer (Key), dies at 79
1965-08-13 - Ikeda Hayato, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1899)
1966-07-12 - D T Suzuki, Zen Buddhism scholar, dies in Tokyo Japan at 96
1966-11-02 - Sadao Araki, Japanese general/minister of War (1931-34), dies at 89
1967-10-20 - Yoshida Shigeru, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1878)
1968-01-30 - Tsugouharu T Foujita, Japanese/French painter, dies at 81
1969-04-26 - Morihei Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist and founder of aikido (b. 1883)
1970-01-25 - Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese television writer and producer (Ultraman) (b. 1901)
1970-11-25 - Yukio Mishima, Japanese author/nationalist (Harakiri), dies at 45
1972-04-02 - Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Japanese Martial Arts Grandmaster (b. 1887)
1972-04-16 - Yasunari Kawabata, Japanese author (Nobel 1968), dies at 72
1973-01-24 - Masao Ohba, world champion Japanese boxer (b. 1949)
1974-03-24 - Yoshida Isoya, Japanese architect (modern sukiya style), dies at 79
1974-06-02 - Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese racing driver (b. 1949)
1975-05-30 - Tatsuo Shimabuku, Japanese martial artist (b. 1908)
1975-06-02 - Eisaku Sato, premier of Japan (1964-71 Nobel 1974), dies at 74
1976-01-19 - Hidetsugu Yagi, Japanese electrical engineer (b. 1886)
1979-07-08 - Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1906)
1980-09-20 - Sanpei Hayashiya, Japanese comedian (b. 1925)
1981-04-13 - Prince Asaka Yasuhiko of Japan (b. 1887)
1981-09-08 - Hediki Joekawa, Japans physicist (Nobel 1949) at 74
1982-02-11 - Takashi Shimura, Japans actor (Rashomon, 7 Samurais), dies at 76
1985-01-01 - Kamatari Fujiwara, Japanese actor (b. 1905)
1986-02-21 - Shigechiyo Izumi, Japanese sugarcane farmer, also the world's oldest man ever (b. 1865)
1986-04-08 - Yukiko Okada, Japanese idol singer (b. 1967)
1986-07-31 - Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat (b. 1900)
1987-07-17 - Yujiro Ishihara, Japanese actor (b. 1934)
1987-08-07 - Nobusuke Kishi, premier of Japan (1957-60), dies at 90
1988-12-25 - Ooka Shohei, Japanese novelist (b. 1909)
1989-01-06 - Hirohito, Japan`s emperor (1922-89), dies at 87 after 62-year reign
