ON 4 FEBRUARY IN JAPAN’S HISTORY
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Updated on February 4, 2019
1615: Death of Dom Justo Takayama, Japanese Christian warlord while in exile in Manila, born in 1552
http://wiki.samurai-archives.com/index.php?title=Takayama_Ukon
https://aleteia.org/2016/01/24/samurai-martyr-soon-a-saint-dom-takayama-justo/
1703: In Edo, 46 of the Forty-seven Ronin commit Seppuku (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master’s death (a very famous story in Japan)
https://www.thoughtco.com/the-47-ronin-story-195577
http://afe.easia.columbia.edu/special/japan_1450_47ronin.htm
1898: Birth of Japanese Ito Shinsui, Japanese painter who died on May 8, 1972
http://jyuluck-do.com/profile_ito_shinsui.html
http://www.google.fr/search?q=Ito+Shinsui&hl=fr&rlz=1G1ACAW_FRFR414&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&source=lnms&ei=fgksT6CpLMO5hAes_sHgCg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CC4Q_AUoAQ&biw=1192&bih=543
1918: Death of Akiyama Saneyuki, Japanese naval commander, born on April 12, 1868
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akiyama_Saneyuki
1922: By the «Shantung Treaty» the territory of Kiaochow (Jiaozhou) in Shantung (Shandong) is returned to China by Japan. The area had been leased by Germany in 1898, but seized by Japan at the outbreak of war in 1914
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-Kiaochow.html
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/4707399
1932: Japan occupies Harbin (Manchuria)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_of_Harbin
1942: Battle of Makassar (Indonesia) won by the Japanese on Dutch
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Makassar_Strait
http://www.nww2m.com/2012/02/the-battle-of-makassar-strait/
http://pwencycl.kgbudge.com/M/a/Makassar.htm
1945: Start of the Yalta Conference, foreshadowing the Cold War
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/yalta-conference-foreshadows-the-cold-war
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybnzMnFEWJY
1945: The British Indian Army and Imperial Japanese Army begin a series of battles known as the Battle of Pokoku and Irrawaddy River operations
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Pokoku_and_Irrawaddy_River_operations
1953: Birth of Kitaro, Japanese composer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitaro
1966: Birth of Kyoko Koizumi, Japanese actress and singer
http://www.japan-zone.com/modern/koizumi_kyoko.shtml
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0463592/
1990: Birth of Haruka Tomatsu, Japanese voice actress
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruka_Tomatsu