ON 14 JANUARY IN JAPAN’S HISTORY
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Updated on January 14, 2019
1701: Death of Tokugawa Mitsukuni, Japanese warlord, born in July 1628
http://eos.kokugakuin.ac.jp/modules/xwords/entry.php?entryID=558
1702: Birth of 114th Japanese emperor Nakamikado (1709-1735) who died on May 10, 1737
http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=Nakamikado
1905: Birth ofTakeo Fukuda, Prime Minister from December 1976 to December 1978, who died in July 1995. Father of Yasuo Fukuda, also later a Prime Minister
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Takeo_Fukuda
1925: Birth of Japanese author Yukio Mishima who committed suicide on November 25, 1970
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yukio_Mishima
http://www.nytimes.com/books/98/10/25/specials/mishima-bios.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WhSRHhaE9E
1928: Birth of Akiyoshi Fukae, Japanese actor
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0297908/
1938: Birth of Morihiro Hosokawa, first non-LDP Japanese Prime Minister since 1955 (1993-1994)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morihiro_Hosokawa
1942: Forces, under US general Douglas MacArthur, resist Japanese attacks on Bataan in Philippines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Bataan
1942: Japanese troops land at oil center Balikpapan in Borneo
http://www.combinedfleet.com/BorneoOil.htm
1943: Operation Ke, the successful Japanese operation to evacuate their forces from Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal campaign, begins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ke
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ke
http://www.usni.org/store/books/aviation/operation-ke
1955: Birth of Junichi Ishida, Japanese actor
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Ishida_Junichi
1979: Birth of Mami Nakamura, Japanese actress
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0620115/
http://www.fandango.com/maminakamura/overview/p200524
1980: Birth of Hiroshi Tamaki, Japanese actor
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Tamaki_Hiroshi
http://www.tamakihiroshi.com/
1994: Japanese police raid two companies suspected of selling electronics to the North Korean missile program