ON 1st JANUARY IN JAPAN’S HISTORY
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Updated on January 1, 2019
711 BC: Birth of Jimmu, legendary first Japanese Emperor who died on BC March 5, 585
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Jimmu
1638: Birth of Go-Sai, 111th Japanese Emperor (1655-1663) who died on March 22, 1685
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Go-Sai
1862: British subjects are now allowed to reside in Yedo (Japan)
1873: Japan begins using the Gregorian calendar
1883: Birth of Ichiro Hatoyama, Japan’s Prime minister from December 1954 to December 1956
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichir%C5%8D_Hatoyama
1896: Birth of Teinosuke Kinugasa, film director, who died on February 26, 1982
http://www.filmreference.com/Directors-Jo-Ku/Kinugasa-Teinosuke.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teinosuke_Kinugasa
1900: Birth of Chiune Sugihara, Japanese diplomat who helped thousands of Jews leave to the Soviet Union while serving as Japanese consul to Lithuania
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/sugihara.html
1919: Birth of Yoshio Tabata, Japanese singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoshio_Tabata
1929: Birth of Haruo Nakajima, Japanese actor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruo_Nakajima
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETR0ts2FPCw
1946: MacArthur disolves the Japanese nationalist organizations. Emperor Hirohito of Japan announces he is not a god
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanity_Declaration
1956: Birth of Koji Yakusho, Japanese actor
http://asianwiki.com/Koji_Yakusho
1975: Birth of Eiichiro Oda, Japanese Manga artist
http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Eiichiro_Oda
1979: Birth of Koichi Domoto, Japanese artist
http://wiki.d-addicts.com/Domoto_Koichi
2014: Japan’s nationalist Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says the country’s pacifist post-World War II constitution which limits its military to self-defence could be amended by 2020.