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May 1

May 1:

Events

1457 - Edo Castle is fortified by Ōta Dōkan. (Japanese Date: Eighth Day of the Fourth Month, 1457)
1837 - Ōshio Heihachirō dies. (Japanese Date: Twenty-seventh Day of the Third Month, 1837)
1907 - Sakichi Toyoda is the first subject to patent the world's first automatic loom.
1923 - The Tokyo high-speed rail is renamed and Odakyu Electric Railway is founded.
1929 - The Imperial Palace of the Times changes its cannons from "Don" to "Siren". When the signal is noon at Tokyo, the sound from the cannon fire in the imperial palace of "Don" was handed to the siren. It is established in three places, but it is inaudible and unpopular. It is not mistaken for a factory whistle and is sounded at 19:00.
1932 - The first radio surveys are performed.
1937 - Nishinomiya Stadium is opened.
1948 - Hibari Misora debuted in the Yokohama international theater. (as Kazue Misora at the time)
1952 - A blood incident happened on Labor Day.
1975 - Japan's first Nagasaki airport is opened to be the offshore airport.
2000 - The Japan Coast Guard introduced "118 = Emergency Telephone Number". It notified incidents and accidents at sea. It has faster sea rescue and helps to prevent the water's edge from smuggling.

Births

1953 - Naoya Uchida, voice actor, actor, and singer
1957 - Kow Otani, pianist and composer
1978 - Sachie Hara, model and actress
1980 - Yousuke Ichikawa, actor and model
1984 - Keiichiro Koyama, singer and actor
1992 - You Kikkawa, singer

Film and television

2015 - Flying Colors, a youth comedy drama film starring Kasumi Arimura and Atsushi Itō

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May 2

May 2:

Births

1939 - Sumio Iijima, physicist and engineer
1952 - Mari Natsuki, singer, dancer, and actress
1956 - Yasushi Akimoto, songwriter and producer
1968 - Hikaru Midorikawa, voice actor and singer
1981 - Rina Satō, voice actress and singer
1987 - Nana Kitade, singer-songwriter and actress

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May 3

May 3:

Events

1942 - World War II: Japanese naval troops invade Tulagi Island in the Solomon Islands during the first part of Operation Mo that results in the Battle of the Coral Sea between Japanese forces and forces from the United States and Australia.
1947 - New post-war Japanese constitution goes into effect.

Births

1943 - Yukio Hashi, singer and actor
1955 - Seishirō Nishida, actor
1977 - Hiro Mashima, illustrator
1978 - Dai Tamesue, hurdler

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May 4

May 4:

Births

1914 - Maedayama Eigorō (d. 1971), sumo wrestler, the 39th Yokozuna
1918 - Kakuei Tanaka, (d. 1993), soldier and politician, 64th Prime Minister
1967 - Akiko Yajima, voice actress
1968 - Momoko Kikuchi, actress, entertainer, singer, and scholar
1978 - Daisuke Ono, voice actor
1990 - Asana Mamoru, actress and model
1994 - Sairi Ito, actress

Deaths

1938 - Kanō Jigorō (b. 1860), educator and martial artist, founded judo

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May 5

May 5:

Events

1945 - World War II: Six people are killed when a Japanese fire balloon explodes near Bly, Oregon. They are the only Americans killed in the continental US during the war.
1946 - The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Births

867 - Emperor Uda (d. 931)
1947 - Daisuke Ban, actor
1947 - Sansho Shinsui, actor
1961 - Hiroshi Hase, wrestler and politician
1962 - Kaoru Wada, composer and conductor
1964 - Minami Takayama, voice actress and singer
1967 - Takehito Koyasu, voice actor and singer
1968 - Atsuro Watabe, actor
1974 - Seiji Ara, race car driver
1985 - Shoko Nakagawa, actress and singer
1992 - Yōsuke Mikami, footballer
1992 - Taisuke Miyazaki, footballer

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May 6

May 6:

Births

1869 - Junnosuke Inoue (d. 1932), businessman and central banker, 8th Governor of the Bank of Japan
1942 - Rin Kaiho, Chinese-Japanese go player
1944 - Masanori Murakami, baseball player and coach
1972 - Naoko Takahashi, runner
1992 - Takashi Usami, footballer

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May 7

May 7:

Events

1875 - Japan and Russia signed the Sakhalin Metropolitan Kuril exchange treaty.
1888 - The first Japanese Ph.D. is born.
1969 - The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo opened.
1999 - The administrative agency document, Freedom of Information Act, established. It enforced in April 2001.

Births

1911 - Ishirō Honda (d. 1993), director, producer, and screenwriter
1941 - Kinichi Hagimoto, comedian
1965 - Takaya Kamikawa, actor
1987 - Asami Konno, singer
1990 - Kimito Totani, actor
1999 - Masaki Sato, singer and actress

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May 8

May 8:

Events

1942 - World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.

Births

1929 - Miyoshi Umeki (d. 2007), Japanese-American actress and singer
1936 - Kazuo Koike, author
1957 - Rino Katase, actress
1959 - Ikue Sakakibara, actress and singer
1961 - Akira Taue, wrestler
1962 - Masaki Terasoma, actor and voice actor
1969 - Akebono Tarō, American-Japanese sumo wrestler, the 64th Yokozuna
1973 - Hiromu Arakawa, author and illustrator
1977 - Chiaki Takahashi, model and voice actress
1981 - Yasuko Tajima, swimmer

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May 9

May 9:

Births

1147 - Minamoto no Yoritomo (d. 1199), shogun
1947 - Yukiya Amano, diplomat
1965 - Ken Nomura, race car driver and sportscaster
1972 - Megumi Odaka, actress and singer
1981 - You Yokoyama, singer-songwriter and actor
1983 - Ryuhei Matsuda, actor

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May 10

May 10:

Events

1975 - Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder in Japan.

Births

1265 - Emperor Fushimi (d. 1317)
1895 - Kama Chinen (d. 2010), super-centenarian
1931 - Ichirō Nagai (d. 2014), voice actor
1961 - Ayako Fuji, singer
1967 - Nobuhiro Takeda, footballer and sportscaster
1993 - Mirai Shida, actress

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May 11

May 11:

Events

1891 - The Ōtsu incident: Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich of Imperial Russia (later Nicholas II) suffers a critical head injury during a sword attack by Japanese policeman Tsuda Sanzō. He is rescued by Prince George of Greece and Denmark.
1945 - World War II: Off the coast of Okinawa, the aircraft carrier USS Bunker Hill is hit by two kamikazes, killing 346 of its crew. Although badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under its own power.

Births

1571 - Niwa Nagashige (d. 1637), daimyo
1948 - Shigeru Izumiya, singer, actor, and poet
1963 - Masatoshi Hamada, comedian and actor
1973 - Tsuyoshi Ogata, runner
1985 - Sifow, singer
1988 - Ami Nakashima, singer and dancer

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May 12

May 12:

Events

1934 - The first radio overseas coverage occurred (ten times of the Far East Championship competition of Manila).
1939 - Japan and Soviet Union battle in Manchuria and the Mongolian border in Nomonhan which started the Nomonhan Incident.
1948 - The Ministry of Health and Welfare distribute the "Mother's Pocketbook" based on the Child Welfare Act. It handed to pregnant women municipality, maternal health, and the baby's developmental state, distribution of milk, and filling out the vaccination collectively. It later became the "Mother and Child Health Handbook" in 1965.
1980 - "Mother" is the death of the post-war half-breed. Director Miki Sawada died at the Elizabeth Sanders Home that was known as the "Mother" and was born in the post-war turmoil half-breed in Spain. From 1948, an investment of private property and embarked on a half-breed rescue, about 2,000 people left home.
1984 - NHK satellite broadcasting begins, it became a clear image even in the Ogasawara Islands.

Births

1401 - Emperor Shōkō (d. 1428)
1904 - Eiji Nakano (d. 1990), actor
1956 - Kimiko Yo, actress
1978 - Aya Ishiguro, singer and fashion designer
1981 - Kentaro Sato, Japanese-American composer and conductor
1983 - Yujiro Kushida, wrestler and mixed martial artist

Film and television

2008 - Change begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Takuya Kimura and Eri Fukatsu

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May 13

May 13:

Events

1972 - Faulty electrical wiring ignites a fire underneath the Playtown Cabaret in Osaka, Japan. Blocked exits and non-functional elevators lead to 118 fatalities, with many victims leaping to their deaths.

Births

1904 - Chishū Ryū (d. 1993), actor
1940 - Kōkichi Tsuburaya (d. 1968), runner
1957 - Koji Suzuki, author and screenwriter
1965 - Hikari Ōta, comedian and actor
1980 - Waka Inoue, model and actress
1982 - Yoko Kumada, model and singer
1987 - Mei Kurokawa, actress and singer
1989 - Hiromi Hosoi, entertainer and model
1998 - Karen Iwata, singer

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May 14

May 14:

Events

1878 - Ōkubo Toshimichi is assassinated in complaints by samurai Kio Isaka
1969 - Tokyo's Shinjuku Station west exit underground plaza "Fork Rally" is restricted. The police embark to eliminate as the hinder traffic. The Fork Rally is also a circle of debate over the Vietnam War and the Okinawa issue. Its confrontation with the police intensified until July.
1971 - After winning 32 times of large yonozuka, Taihō Kōki retires.
1971 - Kiyoshi Ōkubo is arrested for killing eight women.
1991 - Fuji announced his retirement of Chiyo.
1991 - A train collision accident happened in Shigaraki Kogen railway in Shigaraki Prefecture. Up to 42 people died.

Births

1630 - Katakura Kagenaga (d. 1681), samurai
1982 - Ai Shibata, swimmer
1992 - Maggy, model

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May 15

May 15:

Births

1922 - Jakucho Setouchi, nun and author
1935 - Akihiro Miwa, singer, actor, director, composer, and author
1946 - Kenichi Mikawa, singer and television personality
1948 - Yutaka Enatsu, baseball player
1969 - Hideki Irabu (d. 2011), Japanese-American baseball player
1982 - Tatsuya Fujiwara, actor
1989 - Akina Minami, model
1995 - Ryosuke Yamamoto, actor and model

Deaths

1036 - Emperor Go-Ichijō (b. 1008)

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May 16

May 16:

Events

1689 - Matsuo Bashō's journey of "The Narrow Road to the Deep North". He went out to Michinoku with his disciples. (Japanese Date: Twenty-seventh Day of the Third Month, 1689)
1889 - The Imperial Museum opened in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Nara.
1949 - Japan joins the World Health Organization.
1958 - Television reception contracts exceeded one million.
1968 - The Tokachi-oki earthquake occurred, 52 people are either dead or missing.
1975 - The Japan Women's expedition succeeded in the first Mount Everest ascent as a woman.
1995 - Chizuo Matsumoto of Aum Shinrikyo is arrested.

Births

1898 - Kenji Mizoguchi (d. 1956), director and screenwriter
1910 - Higashifushimi Kunihide (d. 2014), monk and educator
1942 - Isao Sasaki, voice actor, actor, and singer
1951 - Unshō Ishizuka, voice actor
1953 - Kitanoumi Toshimitsu (d. 2015), sumo wrestler, the 55th Yokozuna
1972 - Hideki Naganuma, composer
1973 - Kōsuke Toriumi, voice actor
1977 - Asami Imai, voice actress and singer
1985 - Tadayoshi Okura, singer-songwriter, dancer, and actor
1985 - Kazuhito Tanaka, gymnast

Film and television

2015 - Kakekomi, a jidaigeki drama film starring Yo Oizumi and Erika Toda
2015 - Z Island, an action comedy horror zombie film starring Show Aikawa, Sawa Suzuki, and Yūichi Kimura

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May 17

May 17:

Births

1155 - Jien (d. 1225), monk, poet, and historian
1948 - Raishin Kodama, actor
1982 - Reiko Nakamura, swimmer

Film and television

2014 - Flower and Snake: Zero, an erotic drama film starring Maiko Amano, Noriko Hamada, and Rina Sakuragi

Holidays, observances, and anniversaries

1951 - Tokyo Broadcasting System is founded

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May 18

May 18:

Events

1870 - Telegrams started between Tokyo and Yokohama. (Japanese Date: Eighteenth Day of the Fourth Month, 1870)
1899 - The Bangkok Peace Conference is first held in the Hague.
1936 - In a crime that shocked Japan, Sada Abe strangled her lover Kichizo Ishida, cut off his genitals, and carried them around with her for several days until her arrest.
1984 - Nationality Act Amendment is established.

Births

1904 - Shunryū Suzuki (d. 1971), Japanese-American monk and educator
1947 - Akira Terao, singer and actor
1956 - Naomichi Ozaki, golfer
1971 - Nobuteru Taniguchi, race car driver
1988 - Kōji Seto, actor and singer
1990 - Yuya Osako, footballer

Film and television

2012 - The Complex, a horror film starring Atsuko Maeda and Hiroki Narimiya

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May 19

May 19:

Births

1952 - Ikko Suzuki, actor
1954 - Hōchū Ōtsuka, voice actor
1975 - Masanobu Andō, actor
1982 - Mihiro, actress, singer, and television personality
1985 - Serina, entertainer
1989 - Jasmine, singer-songwriter and producer
1993 - Ryunosuke Kamiki, actor

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May 20

May 20:

Births

1940 - Sadaharu Oh, Japanese-Taiwanese baseball player and manager
1957 - Yoshihiko Noda, lawyer and politician, 62nd Prime Minister of Japan
1964 - Kōichirō Genba, politician, 80th Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs
1969 - Kazuya Takahashi, actor
1970 - Ryuichi Kawamura, singer-songwriter, actor, and producer
1976 - Tomoya Satozaki, baseball player
1981 - Kensuke Tanaka, baseball player
1987 - Mike Havenaar, footballer
1988 - Miyu Nagase, singer and guitarist

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May 21

May 21:

Events

1936 - Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
2010 - JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year.

Births

1837 - Itagaki Taisuke (d. 1919), soldier and politician
1969 - Masayo Kurata, voice actress and singer
1981 - Kaori Shimizu, voice actress and singer
1998 - Koki Ogawa, actor and entertainer

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May 22

May 22:

Events

2012 - Tokyo Skytree is opened to public. It is the tallest tower in world (634 m), and the second tallest man-made structure on Earth, after Burj Khalifa (829.8 m).

Births

1834 - Niwa Nagakuni (d. 1904), daimyo
1859 - Tsubouchi Shōyō (d. 1935), author, playwright, and educator
1885 - Kansuke Naka (d. 1965), novelist
1885 - Soemu Toyoda (d. 1957), admiral
1911 - Minoru Kawabata (d. 2001), Japanese-American painter and academic
1954 - Shuji Nakamura, Japanese-American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
1956 - Shinji Morisue, gymnast
1960 - Hideaki Anno, animator, director, and screenwriter
1980 - Rena Tanaka, actress and television personality
1984 - Keita Nakamura, mixed martial artist
1985 - Tao Okamoto, model and actress
1985 - Hideaki Takeda, footballer
1992 - Chinami Tokunaga, singer

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May 23

May 23:

Events

1896 - One high baseball team play against a foreign team from Yokohama (first baseball game of a foreigner). The Daiichi baseball team won in 29-4.
1919 - 3 Yen or more taxpayers to election law established that gives the right to vote.
1969 - A pollution white paper is first announced for the first time.
1980 - Kagemusha directed by Akira Kurosawa wins the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. It was the first Japanese film since Jigokumon in 26 years.

Births

1938 - Nobuyuki Katsube, actor and voice actor
1959 - Ryuta Kawashima, neuroscientist and academic
1965 - Kappei Yamaguchi, voice actor and singer
1989 - Natsuna Watanabe, actress and model

Film and television

2009 - Mr. Brain begins airing on Tokyo Broadcasting System, starring Takuya Kimura
2015 - Initiation Love, a romance film starring Atsuko Maeda, Shota Matsuda, and Fumino Kimura

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May 24

May 24:

Events

670 - The Horyuji Temple burned down. (Japanese Date: Thirtieth Day of the Fourth Month, 670)
905 - The imperial rescript of Kokin Wakashū compiled. (Japanese Date: Eighteenth Day of the Fourth Month, 905)
1878 - The first impaired school in Japan opened in Kyoto.
1900 - The Meiji government banned men and women of mixed bathing for more than twelve years of age.
1903 - Kobe Golf Club perform its opening ceremony in Kobe and Rokko Mountain, which became Japan's first golf course.
1926 - Tokachidake eruption killed 144 people. It caused a large explosion, which is located in the center of Hokkaido, such as Furano pioneer village in the muddy water jet which flowed instantly, and became a catastrophe of 144 dead.
1942 - Professional baseball extended 28 times in Nagoya versus ocean warfare.
1949 - A law is promulgated change people's age calculation from the traditional "Kazoedoshi Formula" to "How to Count the Full". By promulgation, infants born on December will be two years old in January, it can receive a distribution of sweets, and there was a defect such that reduced the distribution to be calculated sixty generations to reverse. A newspaper reported that "people became a rejuvenated thing".
1955 - Emperor Hirohito watched his first sumo in Kokugikan.
1956 - The Anti-Prostitution Act is promulgated.
1960 - Large damage to the Sanriku region in the tsunami of the Chilean earthquake. 139 people are dead or missing during the disaster.

Births

1942 - Ichirō Ozawa, lawyer and politician, Minister of Home Affairs
1961 - Show Aikawa, actor
1965 - Shinichirō Watanabe, director, producer, and screenwriter
1974 - Masahide Kobayashi, baseball player and coach
1981 - Sayaka Ando, model
1985 - Kenjiro Yamashita, dancer and actor
1991 - Erika Umeda, singer
1994 - Daiya Seto, swimmer

Film and television

1975 - G-Men '75 begins airing on Tokyo Broadcasting System, starring Tetsurō Tamba
2014 - A Bolt from the Blue, a comedy-drama film starring Yo Oizumi, Kō Shibasaki, and Hitori Gekidan

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May 25

May 25:

Events

723 - The third generation law is enacted. (Japanese Date: Seventeenth Day of the Fourth Month, 723)
1892 - The Tokyo Carriage Railway launch a student discount ticket.
1949 - The Ministry of International Trade and Industry is installed.
1970 - Professional Baseball Match-fixing Incident: In the "Black Fog Incident" three players are expelled permanently. In the Professional baseball Commissioner Committee, match-fixing became a problem in baseball, Nishitetsu (at the time) announced the decision for the six players of the team. They joined the eliminated acts as stipulated in baseball agreement, pitcher Masaaki Ikenaga said that there is a money transfer is the disposal of permanent exile, and three other players also received the disposal of duties stopped ans strict reprimand. Activities of disposal cancellation is still continuing against the disposal of the Ikenaga players.
1998 - Singer Seiko Matsuda is married for the second time. They divorced in December 2000.

Births

1334 - Emperor Sukō (d. 1398)
1940 - Nobuyoshi Araki, photographer
1953 - Stan Sakai, Japanese-American author and illustrator
1956 - Tatsutoshi Goto, wrestler
1962 - Carolyn Kawasaki, American entertainer
1970 - Satsuki Yukino, voice actress and singer
1972 - Hikari Ishida, actress
1986 - Takahiro Hōjō, actor and musician
1986 - Juri Ueno, actress
1994 - Nanase Nishino, singer and model

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May 26

May 26:

Events

752 - The Buddha opening memorial of Nara Todaji is performed. (Japanese Date: Ninth Day of the Fourth Month, 752)
1869 - The Currency Exchange is renamed in Ginza. (Japanese Date: Fifteenth Day of the Fourth Month, 1869)
1916 - Natsume Sōseki serialization initiates a "Meian" in the Asahi Shimbun.
1937 - Yama Futaba becomes the 35th Yokozuna.
1947 - The "Lucky Zone" is installed in the Koshien.
1959 - The Tokyo Olympic Games is determined by the IOC General Assembly.
1963 - Taiho Yokozuna play his first-ever six-consecutive accomplishment.
1969 - Opening of the Tomei Expressway whole line.
1971 - Television shoppin begins.
1983 - 99 people died in the Sea of Japan earthquake.

Births

1264 - Prince Koreyasu (d. 1326), shogun
1967 - Mika Yamamoto (d. 2012), journalist
1970 - Nobuhiro Watsuki, illustrator
1975 - Takeshi Tsuruno, actor, entertainer, and musician
1977 - Misaki Ito, actress and model
1982 - Tomoaki Maeno, voice actor
1982 - Yoko Matsugane, model

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May 27

May 27:

Events

1905 - Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.

Births

1904 - Chūhei Nambu (d. 1997), jumper and journalist
1918 - Yasuhiro Nakasone, commander and politician, 45th Prime Minister of Japan
1984 - Ryoko Mima, model and entertainer

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May 28

May 28:

Events

1905 - Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima ends with the destruction of the Russian Baltic Fleet by Admiral Tōgō Heihachirō and the Imperial Japanese Navy.
1998 - Nuclear testing: Pakistan responds to a series of nuclear tests by India with five of its own codenamed Chagai-I, prompting the United States, Japan, and other nations to impose economic sanctions. Pakistan celebrates Youm-e-Takbir annually.

Births

1841 - Sakaigawa Namiemon (d. 1887), sumo wrestler, the 14th Yokozuna
1988 - Meisa Kuroki, actress and singer
1998 - Riho Sayashi, singer and actress
2001 - Rikako Sasaki, singer and actress

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May 29

May 29:

Births

1937 - Hibari Misora (d. 1989), singer and actress
1940 - Taihō Kōki (d. 2013), sumo wrestler, the 48th Yokozuna
1963 - Ukyo Katayama, race car driver
1972 - Közi, singer-songwriter and keyboard player
1973 - Tomoko Kaneda, voice actress, singer, and radio personality
1976 - Yūsuke Iseya, actor, director, and screenwriter
1980 - Shugo Tokumaru, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist
1985 - Yukihiro Takiguchi, actor
1991 - Saori Hayami, voice actress and singer
1999 - Yuuri Rukawa, actress

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May 30

May 30:

Events

713 - Emperor Genmei ordered the armistice of the "fudoki". (Japanese Date: Second Day of the Fifth Month, 713)
1590 - Edo Castle surrendered. (Japanese Date: Twenty-seventh Day of the Fourth Month, 1590)
1921 - The Ministry of Communications allowed private wireless telephones.
1958 - Closure of the war criminal camp Sugamo Prison.
1966 - US military nuclear submarine Snook arrived in Yonosuka for the first time.
1967 - Toyo Kogyo's (currently Mazda) Cosmo Sports is the first rotary engine vehicle in the world on sale.
1968 - Promulgated Consumer Production Basic Law.
1972 - Tel Aviv airport shootings, 26 people were killed.
1983 - A policy of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications will allow CATV business to the private sector is announced.
1990 - An acid icicle is found in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture.

Births

1914 - Akinoumi Setsuo (d. 1979), sumo wrestler, the 37th Yokozuna
1920 - Franklin J. Schaffner (d. 1989), Japanese-American director and producer
1969 - Naomi Kawase, director, producer, and screenwriter
1969 - Ryuhei Kitamura, director, producer, and screenwriter
1972 - Sōichirō Hoshi, voice actor and singer
1979 - Rie Kugimiya, voice actress and singer
1980 - Ryōgo Narita, author
1981 - Hisanori Takada, footballer
1982 - Asahi Uchida, actor
1993 - Sota Fukushi, actor

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May 31

May 31:

Events

1942 - World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy midget submarines begin a series of attacks on Sydney, Australia.

Births

1835 - Hijikata Toshizō (d. 1869), commander
1914 - Akira Ifukube (d. 2006), composer and educator
1962 - Noriko Hidaka, voice actress and singer
1964 - Yukio Edano, politician, Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs
1965 - Yōko Sōmi, voice actress
1968 - Kyōka Suzuki, actress
1974 - Hiroiki Ariyoshi, comedian and singer
1975 - Mac Suzuki, baseball player
1980 - Mika Katsumura, actress
1980 - Kaori Manabe, television personality and model
1987 - Nagi Yanagi, singer-songwriter

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