ON 12 APRIL IN JAPAN’S HISTORY
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Updated on April 12, 2019
1868: Birth of Akiyama Saneyuki, Japanese naval commander, who died on 4 February 1918
http://www.ndl.go.jp/portrait/e/datas/222.html
1913: Birth of Keiko Fukuda, Japanese-born American martial artist
http://judoinfo.com/fukuda.htm
1942: Japan kills about 400 Filipino officers during Bataan Death March
http://www.ducksters.com/history/world_war_ii/bataan_death_march.php
1985: Birth of Hitomi Yoshizawa, Japanese singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitomi_Yoshizawa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-kJBXQnwmg
2015: In Japan, candidates backed by Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and junior coalition partner Komeito are elected in all of the 10 gubernatorial polls held across the nation
2016: For the first time since the end of World War II, Japanese destroyers dropped anchor at a Vietnamese port, signifying the two nations’ defense cooperation