ON 16 APRIL IN JAPAN’S HISTORY
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Updated on April 16, 2019
1942: Japanese occupying army on Java installs film censorship
1944: The destroyer USS Laffey survived immense damage from attacks by 22 Japanese aircraft off Okinawa
http://www.historynet.com/uss-laffey-attacked-off-okinawa-in-world-war-ii.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Laffey_(DD-724)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBrtjRF3Cjc
1972: Yasunari Kawabata, born on 14 June 1899, Nobel Prize in Literature 1968, commits suicide
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1968/kawabata-bio.html
1973: Birth of Bonnie Pink, Japanese singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wi[/b]ki/Bonnie_Pink
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRghRp4awaQ