ON 26 JULY IN JAPAN’S HISTORY
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Updated on July 26, 2019
1380: Death of Japanese emperor Komyo (1336-1348), born on January 11, 1322
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Komyo_of_Japan
1611: Death of Horio Yoshiharu, Japanese warlord, born in 1542
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horio_Yoshiharu
1879: Birth of Shunroku Hata, Japanese field marshal who died on May 10, 1962
http://ww2db.com/person_bio.php?person_id=677
1939: Birth of Jun Henmi, Japanese author and poet who died on September 21, 2011
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jun_Henmi
1941: In response to the Japanese occupation of French Indo-China, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the seizure of all Japanese assets in the United States and embargo on oil-export to Japan
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/united-states-freezes-japanese-assets
1945: Potsdam Declaration (USA, China, Great-Britain) defining terms for Japanese surrender
http://www.ndl.go.jp/constitution/e/etc/c06.html
1945: The US Navy cruiser Indianapolis arrives at Tinian with the warhead for the Hiroshima atomic bomb
1947: Conference of the Commonwealth at Canberra working on treaty of peace with Japan
1961: Birth of Keiko Matsui, Japanese musician and composer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keiko_Matsui
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzqsWxau_gI
1963: The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development votes to admit Japan
2011: Death of Sakyo Komatsu, Japanese author, born on January 28, 1931
http://www.scifijapan.com/articles/2011/08/10/sakyo-komatsu-1931-2011/
2014: Japan releases declassified diplomatic archives indicating that both China and Taiwan started asserting their ownership of the Japanese-administered Senkaku islands only from 1971