Today in Japan History (Part 4)
Sub-Topics: Tokyo
Historical Events
Results 301 - 400 of 727
1942-03-01 - Japanese troops occupy Kalidjati airport in Java
1942-03-05 - Japanese troop march into Batavia
1942-03-08 - Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma
1942-03-08 - KNIL, Dutch colonial army on Java, surrenders to Japanese armies
1942-03-11 - Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra
1942-03-23 - Japanese forces occupy Andaman Islands in Indian Ocean
1942-03-23 - US move native-born of Japanese ancestry into detention centers
1942-03-27 - Japan forces Java to use "Tokyo time" 1½ hour forward
1942-04-12 - Japan kills about 400 Filipino officers in Bataan
1942-04-16 - Japanese occupying army on Java installs film censorship
1942-04-18 - James H Doolittle bombs Tokyo & other Japanese cities
1942-04-29 - Japanese troop march into Lashio, cuts off Burma Road
1942-05-02 - Japanese troops occupy Mandalay Burma
1942-05-03 - Japanese troop attack Tulagi, Gavutu & Tanambogo, Solomon Islands
1942-05-06 - Corregidor & Philippines surrender to Japanese Armies
1942-05-07 - Battle of Coral Sea ends stopping Japanese expansion
1942-05-08 - Aircraft carrier Lexington sunk by Japanese air attack at Coral Sea
1942-05-11 - Japanese troops conquer Kalewa
1942-05-22 - Mexico declares war on nazi-Germany & Japan
1942-06-04 - Battle of Midway begins; Japan's 1st major defeat in WW II
1942-06-06 - Japanese forces retreat, ending Battle of Midway
1942-06-06 - Japanese troop land on Kiska, Aleutians
1942-06-07 - Battle of Midway ends: Adm Nimitz wins 1st WW II naval defeat of Japan
1942-06-07 - Japanese troops lands on Attu, Aleutian Islands
1942-06-22 - Japanese submarine in mouth of Columbia River, Oregon
1942-08-22 - Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy
1942-08-26 - Japanse troops lands on New-Guinea, Milne Bay
1942-08-27 - Cuba declares war on Germany, Japan & Italy
1942-09-01 - Fed judge upholds detention of Japanese-Americans
1942-09-09 - Japanese planes drop incendiary bombs on Oregon
1942-09-13 - Battle of Edson's Ridge (2nd Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal
1942-09-14 - Battle of Edson's Ridge (Japanese assault) at Guadalcanal
1942-09-16 - Japanese attack on Port Moresby repelled
1942-10-12 - US navy defeats Japanese in WW II Battle of Cape Esperance
1942-10-14 - Japanese battleship strikes Henderson Field, Guadalcanal
1942-11-11 - Lt-general Kumakashi Harada becomes Japanese commander on Java
1942-11-14 - -Nov 15th) Japanese/US sea battle at Savo-Island in Guadalcanal)
1942-11-23 - Japans bombing of Port Darwin, Australia
1942-12-20 - 1st Japanese bombing of Calcutta
1942-12-27 - 1st Japanese women camp (Ambarawa) goes into use
1943-01-09 - Japanese govt in Java limits sale & use of motorcars
1943-01-23 - Japanese Mount Austen on Guadalcanal captured
1943-01-31 - Chile breaks contact with Germany & Japan
1943-02-09 - Japanese evacuate Guadalcanal, ends epic battle
1943-03-03 - US defeats Japan & wins Battle of Bismark Sea
1943-03-06 - Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers
1943-04-05 - Japanese troops conquer Indin
1943-05-14 - Sinking of the Australian Hospital Ship Centaur off the coast of Queensland, by a Japanese submarine.
1943-05-19 - Churchill pledges England's full support to US against Japan
1943-05-25 - Trident conference in Wash DC (operation plan '43 against Japan)
1943-07-07 - -10] Japanese premier Hideki Tojo visits Java
1943-08-01 - Japan declares Burma Independence under U Ba Maw
1943-08-21 - Japan leaves Aleutian Islands
1943-08-31 - Japanse occupiers intern Jewish Congregation of Sorabajo
1943-10-02 - Japanse troops leave Kolombangara, Solomon Island
1943-10-03 - Operations begin at PETA Java, defending (Japanese) fatherland
1943-10-14 - Japan declares Philippine Independence (premier/pres Jose Laurel)
1943-11-22 - FDR, Churchill & Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan
1944-02-02 - Allied troops 1st set foot on Japanese territory
1944-02-14 - Anti-Japanese revolt on Java
1944-03-07 - Japans begins offensive in Burma
1944-04-01 - Japanese troops conquer Jessami, East-India
1944-04-26 - 1st B-29 attacked by Japanese fighters, one fighter shot down
1944-05-27 - Japanese advance in Hangkhou China
1944-06-11 - 15 US aircraft carriers attack Japanese bases on Marianas
1944-06-14 - 1st B-29 raid against mainland Japan
1944-06-16 - US bombs Kyushu Japan
1944-06-19 - 300 Japanese aircrafts shot down
1944-06-19 - Japanese troops conquer Changsha China
1944-06-20 - US attacks Japanese fleet in Philippines Sea
1944-07-04 - 1st Japanese kamikaze attack, US fleet near Iwo Jima
1944-07-07 - Heavy Japanese counter offensive on Saipan
1944-07-08 - Japanese kamakize attacks on US lines at Saipan
1944-07-09 - In World War II, US troops secure Saipan as Japan fell
1944-07-19 - Japanese aircraft carriers Taiho/Shokaku sinks in Marianas
1944-07-20 - Japanese aircraft carrier Hijo sinks by US air attack
1944-07-20 - US invades Japanese-occupied Guam in WW II
1944-07-21 - General Koiso becomes premier of Japan
1944-07-21 - US forces land on Guam to get rid of Japanese invaders
1944-07-23 - US forces invade Japanese-held Tinian in WW II
1944-07-25 - -26] Japanse banzai-attack on Guam
1944-07-26 - Japanese suicide attack on US lines in Guam
1944-07-27 - US regains possession of Guam from Japanese
1944-08-10 - US recaptures Guam from Japanese
1944-08-19 - Last Japanese troops driven out of India
1944-10-25 - Battle at Cape Engano: 4 Japanese ships sink
1944-10-25 - Battle in Straits of Surigao: Japanese fleet destroyed
1944-11-20 - 1st Japanse suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atol, Carolines)
1944-12-13 - Japanese kamikaze crashes into US cruiser Nashville, kills 138
1944-12-17 - Japanese-Americans released from detention camps
1944-12-22 - Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan
1944-12-31 - Japanese army evacuates harbor city Akyab
1945-01-25 - Japanese occupiers of Batavia arrest Indo-European youths
1945-02-19 - 900 Japanese soldiers reportedly killed by crocodiles in 2 days
1945-02-19 - US 5th Fleet launches invasion of Iwo Jima against the Japanese
1945-02-24 - Manila freed from Japanese
1945-03-09 - Japanese proclaim "independence" of Indo-China
1945-03-10 - Japan declares Vietnam Independence
1945-03-19 - 800 killed as Kamikaze attacked USS Franklin off Japan
1945-03-21 - 1st Japanese flying bombs (ochas) attack Okinawa
Famous Birthdays
Results 301 - 400 of 1,078
1938-01-23 - Shohei Baba, Japanese professional wrestler (d. 1999)
1938-01-25 - Shotaro Ishinomori, Japanese manga author (d. 1998)
1938-01-25 - Leiji Matsumoto, sJapanese creator of anime.
1938-07-09 - Paul Seiko Chihara, Seattle Washington, US/Japanese composer
1938-09-03 - Ryoji Noyori, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1938-09-08 - Kenichi Horie, Japanese adventurer
1938-10-10 - Moriyama Daido, Japanese photographer
1938-11-11 - Haruhiro Yamashita, Japanese gymnast
1939-01-23 - Sonny Chiba, Japanese actor and martial artist
1939-02-27 - Kenzo Takada, Japanese director (Dream After Dream)
1939-05-02 - Sumio Iijima, Japanese physicist
1939-09-06 - Susumu Tonegawa, Japanese molecular biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1939-09-22 - Junko Tabei, Japan, 1st woman to climb Mount Everest
1939-11-24 - Yoshinobu Miyake, Japan, featherweight (Olympic-gold-1964, 68)
1939-12-16 - Liv Ullman, Tokyo Japan, actress (Cries & Whispers, 40 Carats)
1940-01-29 - Kunimitsu Takahashi, Japanese motorcycle racer and racing driver
1940-05-20 - Sadaharu Oh, of Yomiuri Giants (Japan), hit 868 career HR
1940-10-21 - Osamu Watanabe, Japan, featherweight (Olympic-gold-1964)
1941-01-05 - Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese film maker
1941-02-12 - Naomi Uemura, mountain climber (1st Japanese to scale Everest)
1941-07-09 - Takehide Nakatani, Japan, lightweight (Olympic-gold-1964)
1941-08-26 - Akiko Wakabayashi, Japanese actress
1941-09-10 - Gunpei Yokoi, Japanese inventor and video game designer (d. 1997)
1941-09-13 - Tadao Ando, Japanese architect
1941-11-10 - Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor (d. 1985)
1941-12-10 - Kyu Sakamoto, Japanese singer and actor
1942-01-08 - Junichiro Koizumi, Japanese politician
1942-04-02 - Hiroyuki Sakai, Japanese chef
1942-06-22 - Toyohiro Akiyama, Japan, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-11)
1942-08-31 - Isao Aoki, Abiko Chiba Japan, PGA golfer (1983 Hawaiian Open)
1943-01-07 - Sadako Sasaki, Japanese child victim of the Hiroshima atomic bomb (d. 1955)
1943-03-01 - Akinori Nakayama, Japanese gymnast
1943-07-31 - Sab Shimono, Japanese-American actor
1943-08-17 - Yukio Kasaya, Japan, 70m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1972)
1943-08-22 - Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist
1944-01-20 - Isao Okano, Japan, middleweight judo (Olympic-gold-1964)
1944-05-06 - Masanori Murakami, First Japanese baseball player in major leagues
1944-06-16 - Takamiyama, [Jesse Kuhaulua], Hawaii, 1st non-Japanese sumo champion
1945-01-03 - Victoria Principal, Fukuoka Japan, actress (Earthquake, Pamela-Dallas)
1945-03-18 - Hiroh Kikai, Japanese photographer
1945-11-13 - Masahiro Hasemi, Japanese racing driver
1945-12-16 - Yukio Hattori, Japanese Iron Chef commentator
1946-03-10 - Hiroshi Fushida, Japanese racing driver
1946-03-15 - Masaharu Satō, Japanese seiyū
1946-04-04 - Katsuaki Sato, Japanese martial artist
1946-08-06 - Masaaki Sakai, Japanese comedian
1946-09-09 - Hayato Tani, Japanese actor
1946-10-10 - Naoto Kan, Japanese politician
1946-10-11 - Sawao Kato, Japan, gymnist (Olympic-gold-1968, 72, 76)
1947-01-24 - Masashi Ozaki, Japanese golfer
1947-02-11 - Kikko Matsuoka, Japanese actress
1947-03-06 - Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author
1947-03-24 - Meiko Kaji, Japanese singer and actress
1947-04-17 - Tsutomu Wakamatsu, Japanese baseball player
1947-07-01 - Kazuyoshi Hoshino, Japanese racing driver
1947-07-09 - Haruomi Hosono, Japanese musician
1947-08-28 - Shoto Tanemura, Japanese martial artist
1947-08-31 - Yumiko Ōshima, Japanese manga artist
1947-11-07 - Yutaka Fukumoto, Japanese professional baseball player
1948-01-18 - Takeshi Kitano, Tokyo Japan, actor (Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence)
1948-01-28 - Mamoru Mohri, Yoichi-machi Hokkaido Japan, astronaut (STS 47)
1948-01-31 - Muneo Suzuki, Japanese politician
1948-02-29 - Jirō Akagawa, Japanese novelist
1948-05-11 - Shigeru Izumiya, Japanese folk musician
1949-01-12 - Kentaro Haneda, Japanese composer (d. 2007)
1949-01-12 - Haruki Murakami, Japanese novelist
1949-03-13 - Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese racing driver (d. 1974)
1949-09-14 - Eikichi Yazawa, Japanese singer
1949-11-13 - Yoshimi Ishibashi, Japanese racing driver
1949-11-27 - Masanori Sekiya, Japanese racing driver
1950-01-16 - Damo Suzuki, Japanese singer (Can)
1950-02-04 - Pamela Franklin, Tokyo Japan, actress (Satan's School for Girls)
1950-02-16 - Kazuki Tomokawa, Japanese acid-folk singer
1950-02-20 - Ken Shimura, Japanese performer and actor
1950-09-14 - Masami Kuwashima, Japanese race car driver
1950-09-27 - Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Japan, actor (Lt A J Shimamura-Nash Bridges)
1950-10-12 - Kaga Takeshi, Japanese actor
1950-11-27 - Gran Hamada, Japanese professional wrestler
1950-12-06 - Joe Hisaishi, Japanese composer
1951-03-04 - Linda Yamamoto, Japanese singer
1951-04-02 - Ayako Okamoto, Hiroshima Japan, LPGA golfer (1990 Sara Lee)
1951-04-02 - Moriteru Ueshiba, Japanese martial artist
1951-06-06 - Noritake Takahara, Japanese racing driver
1951-06-11 - Yasumasa Morimura, Japanese appropriation artist
1951-07-05 - Keiko Fuji, Japanese enka singer
1951-08-08 - Mamoru Oshii, Japanese film director
1951-08-28 - Keiichi Suzuki, Japanese composer
1951-12-03 - Riki Chosyu, [Mitsuo Yoshida], wrestler (NJPW/All-Japan)
1951-12-28 - Ian Buruma, Anglo-Dutch scholar and writer on Japan and the Far East.
1952-02-02 - Genichiro Tenryu, Japanese professional wrestler
1952-05-02 - Mari Natsuki, Japanese singer, dancer and actress
1952-05-06 - Chiaki Naito-Mukai, Tatebayashi Japan, astronaut (STS 65, sk:95)
1952-06-21 - Kôichi Mashimo, Japanese anime director
1952-07-20 - Keiko Matsuzaka, Japanese actress
1952-07-28 - Yoshitaka Amano, Japanese artist
1952-11-16 - Shigeru Miyamoto, Japanese video game designer
1953-02-04 - Kitaro, Japanese composer
1953-02-23 - Satoru Nakajima, Japanese racing driver
1953-05-17 - Yoko Shimada, Kumamota Japan, author (Kir Royal)/actress (Shogun)
1953-05-25 - Stan Sakai, Japanese-American cartoonist (Usagi Yojimbo)
Famous Deaths
Results 301 - 391 of 391
1989-02-09 - Osamu Tezuka, Japanese manga artist (b. 1928)
1989-04-27 - Konosuke Matsushita, Japanese industrialist (b. 1894)
1989-11-06 - Yusaku Matsuda, Japanese actor (b. 1949)
1990-01-20 - Naruhito Higashi-Kuni, Japanese PM (1945), dies
1990-05-12 - Chen Kenmin, Japanese chef (b. 1912)
1990-07-09 - Brigitte D'Ortschy, Zen teacher Sanbo Kyodan line, dies in Japan at 69
1990-07-23 - Kenjiro Takayanagi, Japanese development of television (b. 1899)
1990-08-26 - Minoru Honda, Japanese astronomer (b. 1913)
1990-11-24 - Nistani Keiji, philosopher, dies in Kyoto Japan
1991-01-29 - Yasushi Inoue, Japanese historian, dies
1991-05-14 - Shintaro Abe, minister of Exterior of Japan (1982-86), dies
1991-06-03 - Harry Glicken, volcanologist, killed by Mt Unzen Volcano in Japan
1991-06-03 - Takeshi Nagata, Japanese geophysicist (b. 1913)
1991-07-11 - Hitoshi Igarashi, Japanese interpreter (Satanic Verses), murdered
1992-04-02 - Tomisaburo Wakayama, Japanese actor (b. 1929)
1992-04-25 - Yutaka Ozaki, Japanese rock artist, dies at 26 of pulmonary edema
1992-08-15 - Osamu Inaba, Japanese min of justice, dies
1993-01-22 - Kobo Abe, Japanese writer (Wife in the Sand), dies at 68
1993-01-30 - Taikichiro Mori, Japanese real estate developer, dies at 88
1993-02-28 - Ishiro Honda, Japanese director/producer (Godzilla), dies at 81
1993-03-16 - Chishu Ryu, Japanese actor (Autumn Afternoon), dies of cancer at 86
1993-04-18 - Masahiko Kimura, Japanese judoka (b. 1917)
1993-07-10 - Masugi Ibuse, Japanese author (Kuroi ame (Black rain)), dies at 95
1993-10-20 - Sugiyama Yasushi, Japanese painter (b. 1909)
1993-11-14 - Sanzo Nosaka, co-founder of Japanese Communist Party (1922), dies
1993-12-15 - Kakuei Tanaka, PM of Japan (1972-74), dies
1993-12-16 - Kakuei Tanaka, premier of Japan (1972-74), dies at 75
1993-12-20 - W Edwards Deming, US economist (helped Japan after WW II), dies at 93
1994-04-26 - Masutatsu Oyama, Founder of Japanese Kyokushin Karate (b. 1927)
1994-07-14 - Taeko Kuwata, Japanese/Belgian pianist, commits suicide
1994-11-13 - Motoo Kimura, Japanese geneticist (b. 1924)
1995-07-30 - Charles James Dunn, japanese scholar, dies at 80
1996-01-07 - Tarō Okamoto, Japanese avant-garde artist (b. 1911)
1996-03-28 - Shin Kanemaru, VP of Japan (1986-87), dies at 81
1996-09-23 - Fujiko F. Fujio, Japanese cartoonist (b. 1933)
1996-09-29 - Endo Shusaku, Japanese writer (Sea & Poison/Silence), dies at 73
1997-06-21 - Shintaro Katsu, Japanese entertainer (b. 1931)
1997-07-23 - Chuhei Nambu, Japanese athlete (b. 1904)
1997-12-22 - Juzo Itami, Japanese director, commits suicide at 64
1997-12-24 - Toshiro Mifune, Japanese actor (Shogun), dies at 77
1997-12-30 - Shinichi Hoshi, Japanese novelist (b. 1926)
1998-01-09 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese Nobel Prize for Chemistry (1981) dies at 79
1998-05-02 - Hideto "hide" Matsumoto, Japanese musician (b. 1964)
1998-05-19 - Sōsuke Uno, Japanese prime minister (b. 1922)
1998-09-06 - Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (b. 1910)
1998-09-27 - Narita Bryan, Japanese racehorse (b. 1991)
1998-11-19 - Ted Fujita, Japanese-born American meteorologist (b. 1920)
1999-01-31 - Shohei Baba, Japanese professional wrestler
1999-06-21 - Kami, Japanese drummer (Malice Mizer) (b. 1973)
1999-07-16 - Hiromi Yanagihara, Japanese singer (b. 1979)
1999-10-03 - Akio Morita, Japanese businessman (b. 1921)
2000-05-14 - Obuchi Keizo, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1937)
2000-06-16 - Empress Kōjun of Japan (b. 1903)
2000-09-22 - Saburo Sakai, Japanese aviator, (b. 1916)
2000-10-31 - Watanabe Kazuki Japanese musician (Raphael) (b. 1981)
2001-04-14 - Hiroshi Teshigahara, Japanese director (b. 1927)
2001-12-29 - Takashi Asahina, Japanese conductor (b. 1908)
2003-01-12 - Kinji Fukasaku, Japanese director (b. 1930)
2003-04-20 - Daijiro Kato, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1976)
2004-02-27 - Yoshihiko Amino, Japanese historians (b. 1928)
2004-05-05 - Ritsuko Okazaki, Japanese singer-songwriter (b. 1959)
2004-07-19 - Zenko Suzuki, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1911)
2005-03-15 - Shoji Nishio, Japanese martial artist (b. 1927)
2005-03-22 - Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect (b. 1913)
2005-04-20 - Fumio Niwa, Japanese novelist (b. 1904)
2005-11-06 - Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (b. 1967)
2006-02-08 - Akira Ifukube, Japanese composer (b. 1914)
2006-05-06 - Shigeru Kayano, Japanese Ainu activist (b. 1926)
2006-05-07 - Machiko Soga, Japanese actress, singer, and tokusatsu legend (b. 1943)
2006-05-10 - Raizo Matsuno, Japanese politician (b. 1917)
2006-05-30 - Shohei Imamura, Japanese film director (b. 1926)
2006-07-21 - Mako, Japanese-born American actor (b. 1933)
2006-10-30 - Junji Kinoshita, Japanese playwright (b. 1914)
2006-12-25 - Hiroaki Hidaka, Japanese serial killer (b. 1962)
2007-02-02 - Masao Takemoto, Japanese gymnast (b. 1919)
2007-05-03 - Knock Yokoyama, Japanese comedian and politician (b. 1932)
2007-05-27 - Izumi Sakai, Japanese singer (b. 1967)
2007-05-28 - Toshikatsu Matsuoka, Japanese politician (b. 1945)
2007-06-02 - Kentaro Haneda, Japanese composer (b. 1949)
2007-06-28 - Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1919)
2007-07-18 - Kenji Miyamoto, Japanese politician (b. 1908)
2007-08-13 - Yone Minagawa, Japanese woman, oldest person (114) (b. 1893)
2007-08-28 - Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese-born American actress (b. 1929)
2007-09-27 - Kenji Nagai, Japanese photojournalist (b. 1957)
2007-10-07 - Norifumi Abe, Japanese motorcycle racer (b. 1975)
2007-10-12 - Kisho Kurokawa, Japanese architect (b. 1934)
2007-11-13 - Kazuhisa Inao, Japanese baseball player (b. 1937)
2008-06-17 - Tsutomu Miyazaki, Japanese serial killer (b. 1962)
2008-06-18 - Miyuki Kanbe, Japanese actor (b. 1984)
2008-08-02 - Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (b. 1935)
2008-09-07 - Nagi Noda, Japanese pop artist and director (b. 1973)
