ON 17 JANUARY IN JAPAN’S HISTORY
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Updated on January 17, 2019
1952: Birth of Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese musician
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryuichi_Sakamoto
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btyhpyJTyXg
1959: Birth of Momoe Yamaguchi, Japanese pop singer and actress
http://nippop.com/artist/artist_id-212/artist_name-momoe_yamaguchi/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4bsggAC1u4
1971: Birth of Youki Kudoh, Japanese actress
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0473802/
http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/39534/Youki-Kudoh/biography
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6Mo13-KOlE
1972: Birth of Ken Hirai, Japanese singer and songwriter
http://www.jpopasia.com/celebrity/kenhirai/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcXkgKA5wXc
1985: Birth of Riyu Kosaka, Japanese pop singer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riyu_Kosaka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FaSi6sT16U
1992: During a visit to South Korea, Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi Miyazawa apologizes for forcing Korean women into sexual slavery (Comfort women) during World War II
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1992-01-17/news/9201050661_1_japanese-soldiers-prime-minister-kiichi-miyazawa-japanese-court
1995: 7.2 earthquake in Kobe, Japan. About 5000 people died and more than 21,000 people were injured. More than 30,000 buildings were damaged by the quake and resulting fires
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/17/newsid_3375000/3375733.stm
http://history.04007.cn/en.php/HisMain/567.html
2004: The first Japanese soldiers leave for Irak. Since 1945, it is the first time that Japanese troop are send in a country on war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Iraq_Reconstruction_and_Support_Group
