ON 9 NOVEMBER IN JAPAN’S HISTORY
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Updated on November 9, 2018
1180: In Japan, Battle of Fujigawa, nicknamed “the battle that never took place” between Takeda clan and Taira army
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fujikawa
1867: Tokugawa Yoshinonu, 15th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate hands power back to the Japanese emperor. Beginning of the Meiji Restoration
http://www.biographybase.com/biography/Yoshinobu_Tokugawa.html
http://wiki.samurai-archives.com/index.php?title=Tokugawa_Yoshinobu
http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/meiji.htm
1937: Japanese troops begin the occupation of Shanghai
http://ww2timelines.com/japan/incidents/37batlleshanghai.htm
1937: In China, Taiyuan fall to the Japanese
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Taiyuan
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/2444688
1963: In Japan, about 450 miners are killed in a coal-dust explosion. In addition, 160 people died in a train crash
1964: Eisaku Sato becomes the Japanese prime minister, succeeding Ikeda Hayato
http://www.nndb.com/people/432/000091159/
1971: Emperor Hirohito visits Netherlands
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19711009&id=gpsrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=d_sFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6618,1148038
1980: Death of Fubuki Koshiji, Japanese actress born in 1924
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0467047/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF1zID_JkXY
2001: The first Japanese warship to be engaged out of the archipelago quit Sasebo for the Indian Ocean for Diego Garcia anglo-US base
2003: Early general elections in Japan. DLP keeps largely the first position but the Democratic Party, the main opposition party grows from 137 to 177 MP
http://cpri.tripod.com/cpr2003/japan-election.pdf