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December 1

December 1:

Events

1941 - World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to initiate war against the United States.

Births

1521 - Takeda Shingen (d. 1573), daimyo
1920 - Peter Baptist Tadamaro Ishigami (d. 2014), priest, 1st Bishop of Naha
1924 - Masao Horiba (d. 2015), businessman, founded Horiba
1947 - Jinpachi Nezu, actor
1962 - Sayoko Hagiwara, actress
2001 - Aiko, Princess Toshi

Deaths

1433 - Emperor Go-Komatsu (b. 1377)
1602 - Kobayakawa Hideaki (b. 1582), daimyo

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December 2

December 2:

Births

1915 - Takahito, Prince Mikasa
1931 - Masaaki Hatsumi, martial artist, founded Bujinkan
1949 - Shūichi Ikeda, actor and voice actor
1966 - Jinsei Shinzaki, wrestler and promoter, co-founded Sendai Girls' Pro Wrestling
1971 - Mine Yoshizaki, illustrator
1973 - Nana Rokusha, model, entertainer, and actress
1976 - Masafumi Gotoh, singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
1990 - Hikaru Yaotome, singer-songwriter and actor
1993 - Haruka Ishida, singer
1994 - Fumika Shimizu, actress and model

Deaths

1348 - Emperor Hanazono (b. 1297)
1944 - Eiji Sawamura (b. 1917), baseball player and soldier
2012 - Hiroshi Kato (b. 1935), martial artist

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December 3

December 3:

Births

1879 - Kafū Nagai (d. 1959), author and playwright
1887 - Prince Naruhiko Higashikuni (d. 1990), general and politician, 43rd Prime Minister of Japan
1899 - Hayato Ikeda (d. 1965), politician, 58th Prime Minister of Japan
1902 - Mitsuo Fuchida (d. 1976), captain and pilot
1932 - Takao Fujinami (d. 2007), politician, Chief Cabinet Secretary, member of House of Representatives
1951 - Riki Chōshū, South Korean-Japanese wrestler
1972 - Saki Takaoka, actress
1976 - Tomotaka Okamoto, soprano
1982 - Alexander, Japanese-Peruvian actor and model
1991 - Masahiro Usui, actor
1995 - Anna Iriyama, singer

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December 4

December 4:

Births

1972 - Yūko Miyamura, voice actress and singer
1973 - Atsushi Tamura, actor and singer
1974 - Tadahito Iguchi, baseball player
1987 - Yukina Kinoshita, model, actress, singer, and television personality

Deaths

1696 - Empress Meishō (b. 1624)
1938 - Tamanishiki San'emon (b. 1903), sumo wrestler, the 32nd Yokozuna
1971 - Shunryu Suzuki (b. 1904), Japanese-American monk and educator, founded the San Francisco Zen Center

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December 5

December 5:

Births

1537 - Ashikaga Yoshiaki (d. 1597), shogun
1909 - Musashiyama Takeshi (d. 1969), sumo wrestler
1953 - Sachiko Kobayashi, singer and voice actress
1955 - Miyuki Kawanaka, singer
1976 - Sachiko Kokubu, actress and model
1976 - Alisa Mizuki, actress, singer, and model
1980 - Shizuka Itō, voice actress and singer
1985 - Angelica Michibata, model

Deaths

2012 - Nakamura Kanzaburō XVIII (b. 1955), actor

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December 6

December 6:

Births

1890 - Yoshio Nishina (d. 1951), physicist and academic
1950 - Joe Hisaishi, pianist, composer, and conductor
1952 - Shio Satō (d. 2010), illustrator
1953 - Masami Kurumada, author and illustrator
1959 - Satoru Iwata (d. 2015), businessman
1960 - Masahiko Katsuya (d. 2018), journalist and photographer
1965 - Toshihide Wakamatsu, actor
1968 - Akihiro Yano, baseball player
1971 - Naozumi Takahashi, singer and voice actor
1980 - Kei Yasuda, singer, musician, and actress
1988 - Nobunaga Shimazaki, voice actor
1994 - Louis Kurihara, model, television personality, and actor

Deaths

735 - Prince Toneri (b. 676)

Film and television

2008 - Akai Ito begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Nao Minamisawa and Junpei Mizobata

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December 7

December 7:

Events

1941 - World War II: The Imperial Japanese Navy launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor shortly after dawn

Births

1561 - Kikkawa Hiroie (d. 1625), daimyo
1965 - Teruyuki Kagawa, actor
1965 - Toshinori Omi, actor
1966 - Shinichi Ito, motorcycle racer
1966 - Kazue Itoh, actress
1967 - Katsuya Terada, illustrator
1979 - Ayako Fujitani, actress
1991 - Dori Sakurada, actor, singer, and dancer
1994 - Yuzuru Hanyu, figure skater

Deaths

2009 - Shunkichi Hamada (b. 1910), field hockey player

Film and television

2013 - Ask This of Rikyu, a biographical film starring Ichikawa Ebizō XI, Miki Nakatani, Ichikawa Danjūrō XII, and Yūsuke Iseya

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December 8

December 8:

Events

1941 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares December 7 to be "a date which will live in infamy", after which the U.S. declares war on Japan.
1941 - World War II: Japanese forces simultaneously invade Shanghai International Settlement, Malaya, Thailand, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and the Dutch East Indies.
2010 - The Japanese solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS passes the planet Venus at a distance of about 80,800 km.

Births

1962 - Marty Friedman, American-Japanese guitarist, songwriter, and television host
1963 - Toshiaki Kawada, wrestler
1964 - Chigusa Nagayo, wrestler
1967 - Kotono Mitsuishi, voice actress and singer
1970 - Emi Wakui, actress
1992 - Yui Yokoyama, singer and actress
1994 - Aika Ota, singer
1994 - Suzuran Yamauchi, singer (SKE48 and AKB48)

Deaths

1996 - Kashiwado Tsuyoshi (b. 1938), sumo wrestler, the 47th Yokozuna

Holidays, observances, and anniversaries

Bodhi Day

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December 9

December 9:

Events

1937 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking – Japanese troops under the command of Lt. Gen. Asaka Yasuhiko launch an assault on the Chinese city of Nanjing (Nanking).
1941 - World War II: The Republic of China, Cuba, Guatemala, and the Philippine Commonwealth, declare war on Japan.
1941 - World War II: The American 19th Bombardment Group attacks Japanese ships off the coast of Vigan, Luzon.

Births

1911 - Ryūzō Sejima (d. 2007), colonel and businessman
1941 - Kayoko Shiraishi, actress
1944 - Tadashi Irie, mobster
1955 - Takeshi Masu, actor
1963 - Masako, Crown Princess of Japan
1979 - Olivia Lufkin, Japanese-American singer-songwriter
1979 - Aiko Uemura, skier
1980 - Issey Takahashi, actor
1987 - Hikaru Nakamura, Japanese-American chess player

Deaths

1916 - Natsume Sōseki (b. 1867), author and poet

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December 10

December 10:

Births

1882 - Shigenori Tōgō (d. 1950), politician, 37th Minister for Foreign Affairs
1933 - Mako Iwamatsu (d. 2006), Japanese-American actor and singer
1941 - Kyu Sakamoto (d. 1985), singer-songwriter and actor
1960 - Kōichi Satō, actor
1967 - Narimi Arimori, actress
1968 - Yōko Oginome, singer, actress, and voice actress
1990 - Sakiko Matsui, singer
1990 - Shoya Tomizawa (d. 2010), motorcycle racer

Deaths

1974 - Toshinari Shōji (b. 1890), general

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December 11

December 11:

Events

1941 - World War II: United States declare war on the Empire of Japan in the wake of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
1941 - World War II: Poland declares war on the Empire of Japan.
1994 - A bomb explodes on Philippine Airlines Flight 434, en route from Manila, Philippines, to Tokyo, Japan, killing one. The captain is able to safely land the plane.
1997 - The Kyoto Protocol opens for signature.

Births

1465 - Ashikaga Yoshihisa (d. 1489), shogun
1936 - Taku Yamasaki, politician
1948 - Shinji Tanimura (d. 2023), singer-songwriter
1975 - Tomoka Kurotani, actress
1976 - Yujiro Shirakawa, actor
1985 - Aiko Kayō, singer and actress
1994 - Alice Hirose, actress, television personality, and model

Deaths

1840 - Emperor Kōkaku (b. 1771)

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December 12

December 12:

Events

1937 - Second Sino-Japanese War: USS Panay incident - Japanese aircraft bomb and sink U.S. gunboat USS Panay on the Yangtze river in China.
1941 - World War II: Fifty-four Japanese A6M Zero fighters raid Batangas Field, Philippines. Jesús Villamor and four Filipino fighter pilots fend them off; César Basa is killed.
1941 - World War II: USMC F4F "Wildcats" sink the first 4 major Japanese ships off Wake Island.
1941 - World War II: India declares war on Japan.

Births

1903 - Yasujirō Ozu (d. 1963), director and screenwriter
1929 - Toshiko Akiyoshi, pianist and composer
1955 - Nakamura Baijaku II, actor, bass player, and composer
1960 - Masahiko Nishimura, actor
1963 - Ai Orikasa, voice actress and singer
1966 - Último Dragón, wrestler and actor
1966 - Kōichi Nagano, voice actor
1967 - Yuzo Koshiro, composer and producer
1975 - Houko Kuwashima, voice actress and singer'
1976 - Asaka Seto, actress
1982 - Ai Kato, actress
1984 - Airi Taira, actress
1985 - Shihori Kanjiya, actress
1986 - Mitsuhiro Hidaka, singer, rapper, actor, and dancer
1996 - Karen Miyama, actress

Deaths

1963 - Yasujirō Ozu (b. 1903), director and screenwriter

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December 13

December 13:

Events

1937 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking - The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and murder hundreds of thousands of civilians.

Births

1944 - Hwang Jang-lee, Japanese-South Korean martial artist and actor
1958 - Kanako Higuchi, actress
1964 - hide, musician, singer and songwriter
1978 - Ryo Kawakita, singer-songwriter and guitarist
1980 - Satoshi Tsumabuki, actor and singer
1982 - Eita, actor
1982 - Ayumi Kinoshita, actress and model
1982 - Koutaro Tanaka, actor
1989 - Mari Okamoto, entertainer
1991 - Nonoka Ono, entertainer and model
1993 - Jurian Beat Crisis, singer
1994 - Leo Ieiri, singer-songwriter

Deaths

2010 - Takeshi Watabe (b. 1936), voice actor
2014 - Taitetsu Unno (b. 1929), scholar and author

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December 14

December 14:

Events

1913 - Haruna, the fourth and last Kongō-class ship, launches, eventually becoming one of the Japanese workhorses during World War I and World War II.
1941 - World War II: Japan signs a treaty of alliance with Thailand.

Births

1009 - Emperor Go-Suzaku (d. 1045)
1883 - Morihei Ueshiba (d. 1969), martial artist, developed aikido
1985 - Nonami Takizawa, actress and singer
1988 - Hayato Sakamoto, baseball player
1991 - Mitsuki Takahata, actress and singer
1992 - Ryo Miyaichi, footballer

Deaths

1991 - Robert Eddison (b. 1908), Japanese-English actor

Holidays, observances, and anniversaries

Forty-seven Ronin remembrance day (Sengaku-ji, Tokyo)

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December 15

December 15:

Events

1868 - Shogunate rebels found Ezo Republic in Hokkaidō.
1914 - A gas explosion at Mitsubishi Hojyo coal mine on Kyūshū kills 687. This accident is the worst coal mine disaster in Japanese history.
1942 - The Battle of Mount Austen, the Galloping Horse, and the Sea Horse begins during the Guadalcanal campaign.
1945 - Occupation of Japan: General Douglas MacArthur orders that Shinto be abolished as state religion of Japan.

Births

1957 - Chō, voice actor
1964 - Katsunori Takahashi, singer and actor
1967 - Ami Kawai, actress
1984 - Ryouma Baba, actor

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December 16

December 16:

Events

1392 - Nanboku-chō - Emperor Go-Kameyama abdicates in favor of rival claimant Go-Komatsu.
1598 - Seven Year War: Battle of Noryang Point - The final battle of the Seven Year War is fought between the Korean and Japanese navies, resulting in a decisive Korean victory.
1707 - Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji in Japan.
1941 - World War II: Japanese occupy Miri, Sarawak

Births

1884 - Seibo Kitamura (d. 1987), sculptor
1938 - Liv Ullmann, Japanese-Norwegian actress, director, and screenwriter
1945 - Yukio Hattori, television host
1951 - Shinji Yamashita, actor
1955 - Chiharu Matsuyama, singer-songwriter
1971 - Shigeki Hosokawa, actor
1975 - Nao Kawakita, drummer
1976 - Emiri Henmi, actress and singer
1978 - Satoshi Matsuda, actor
1983 - Mika Kikuchi, actress and voice actress
1985 - Keita Tachibana, singer and dancer
1989 - Mirei Kiritani, actress, model, and news anchor
1992 - Moe Miura, model, actress, and singer
1993 - Rikako Sakata, model and actress

Deaths

1945 - Fumimaro Konoe (b. 1891), politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Japan
1993 - Kakuei Tanaka (b. 1918), soldier and politician, 64th Prime Minister of Japan

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December 17

December 17:

Events

1586 - Go-Yōzei becomes Emperor of Japan.
1637 - Shimabara Rebellion: Japanese peasants led by Amakusa Shirō rise against daimyō Matsukura Shigeharu.
1941 - World War II: Japanese forces land in Northern Borneo.

Births

1239 - Kujō Yoritsugu (d. 1256), shogun
1267 - Emperor Go-Uda (d. 1324)
1840 - Nozu Michitsura (d. 1908), field marshal
1966 - Yuko Arimori, runner
1975 - Mayuko Aoki, voice actress
1981 - Rena Takeshita, model and actress
1983 - Kosuke Saito, DJ and composer
1985 - Ryuichi Ogata, singer and dancer
1988 - Rin Takanashi, actress
1990 - Makoto Takeda, actress and model

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December 18

December 18:

Events

1941 - Japan invades Hong Kong after British governor of Hong Kong, Mark Aitchison Young refuses to surrender to Japanese forces.
1944 - World War II: 77 B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.

Births

1507 - Ōuchi Yoshitaka (d. 1551), daimyo
1960 - Kazuhide Uekusa, economist and academic
1963 - Rikiya Koyama, actor
1966 - Makiko Esumi, actress
1969 - Akira Iida, race car driver
1971 - Noriko Matsueda, pianist and composer
1975 - Masaki Sumitani, wrestler and comedian
1976 - Koyuki, actress and model
1978 - Funky Kato, singer-songwriter
1987 - Ayaka, singer-songwriter and producer
1987 - Miki Ando, figure skater
1987 - Yuki Furukawa, actor
1987 - Minami Tsukui, actress
1993 - Riria, actress

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December 19

December 19:

Births

1973 - Takashi Sorimachi, actor and singer
1981 - Eriko Sato, actress
1989 - Kousei Miura, jockey
1991 - Sumire Uesaka, voice actress and singer

Deaths

1997 - Masaru Ibuka (b. 1908), businessman, co-founded Sony

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December 20

December 20:

Events

1941 - World War II: First battle of the Flying Tigers against Japanese forces in Kunming, China.
1942 - World War II: Bombing of Calcutta by the Japanese.

Births

1873 - Kan'ichi Asakawa (d. 1948), historian, author and academic
1948 - Mitsuko Uchida, Japanese-English pianist
1956 - Junji Hirata, wrestler
1974 - Die, guitarist, songwriter, and producer
1982 - Masahiro Kuranuki, actor
1983 - Takuma Terashima, voice actor
1987 - Yutaka Otsuka, baseball player
1997 - Suzuka Nakamoto, singer
2002 - Yuuna Sugiyama, actress

Deaths

1993 - W. Edwards Deming (b. 1900), American statistician, academic, and author, known for his work in teaching top management in Japan how to improve design, service, product quality, testing, and sales
1997 - Juzo Itami (b. 1933), actor, director, producer, and screenwriter

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December 21

December 21:

Births

1909 - Seichō Matsumoto (d. 1992), journalist and author
1954 - Tsurutaro Kataoka, boxer, television personality, actor, and artist
1955 - Kazuyuki Sekiguchi, singer-songwriter and bass player
1961 - Ryūji Sasai, bass player and composer
1964 - Kunihiko Ikuhara, director
1965 - Masahiro Motoki, actor
1985 - Kotaro Yanagi, actor

Deaths

1959 - Rosanjin (b. 1883), calligrapher, engraver, and painter

Film and television

2013 - The Eternal Zero, a war drama film starring Junichi Okada, Haruma Miura, and Mao Inoue
2013 - Mugiko-san to, a film starring Maki Horikita and Ryuhei Matsuda

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December 22

December 22:

Events

1885 - Samurai Itō Hirobumi becomes the first Prime Minister of Japan.
1944 - World War II: Vietnam People's Army is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Indo-China, now Vietnam.

Births

1178 - Emperor Antoku (d. 1185)
1546 - Kuroda Yoshitaka (d. 1604), daimyo
1954 - Hideshi Matsuda, race car driver
1963 - Luna H. Mitani, Japanese-American painter and illustrator
1966 - Sayuri Kokushō, actress and singer
1976 - Aya Takano, author and illustrator
1981 - Megumi Yasu, entertainer and actress
1987 - Osamu Adachi, actor
1992 - Shiori Kutsuna, Japanese-Australian actress

Holidays, observances, and anniversaries

Tōji (winter solstice)

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December 23

December 23:

Events

1941 - World War II: Japanese Imperial Army occupies Wake Island.
1948 - Seven Japanese convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo.
1958 - Dedication of Tokyo Tower, world's highest self-supporting iron tower.

Births

1713 - Maruyama Gondazaemon (d. 1749), sumo wrestler, the 3rd Yokozuna
1933 - Akihito, emperor
1951 - Shōfukutei Tsurube II, actor and comedian
1962 - Keiji Mutoh, wrestler and actor
1971 - Masayoshi Yamazaki, singer-songwriter
1978 - Akiko Yada, actress
1979 - Yukifumi Murakami, javelin thrower
1980 - Kohei Yamamoto, actor
1987 - Kana Kurashina, actress
1988 - Eri Kamei, singer and actress
1988 - Yuka Kashino, singer and dancer
1993 - Ruriko Kojima, model and sportscaster

Deaths

1575 - Akiyama Nobutomo (b. 1531), samurai
1948 - Akira Mutō (b. 1883), general
1948 - Hideki Tōjō (b. 1884), general and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Japan

Holidays and observances

The Emperor's Birthday - Birthday of Akihito, the current Emperor of Japan

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December 24

December 24:

Events

1941 - World War II: Hong Kong falls to the Japanese Imperial Army.
1941 - World War II: Kuching is conquered by Japanese forces.

Births

1867 - Kantarō Suzuki (d. 1948), admiral, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan
1897 - Koto Okubo (d. 2013), super-centenarian
1932 - On Kawara (d. 2014), Japanese-American painter
1950 - Hiroshi Ikushima, announcer and businessman
1958 - Munetaka Higuchi (d. 2008), drummer and producer
1961 - Eriko Kitagawa, screenwriter and director
1969 - Taro Goto, footballer
1969 - Ryuji Kato, footballer
1969 - Miyuki Matsushita, voice actress
1969 - Mariko Shiga (d. 1989), voice actress
1982 - Masaki Aiba, singer, dancer, and actor
1986 - Satomi Ishihara, actress
1986 - Riyo Mori, model and dancer, Miss Universe 2007
1990 - Ryo Miyake, Japanese fencer
1993 - Mariya Nishiuchi, model, actress, and singer-songwriter

Deaths

1813 - Empress Go-Sakuramachi (b. 1740)
1997 - Toshirō Mifune (b. 1920), Chinese-Japanese actor and producer

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December 25

December 25:

Events

1926 - Emperor Taishō dies. His son, Prince Hirohito succeeds him as Emperor Shōwa.
1941 - World War II: Battle of Hong Kong ends, beginning the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong.

Births

1966 - Toshi Arai, race car driver
1973 - Daisuke Miura, baseball player
1975 - Hideki Okajima, baseball player
1980 - Reika Hashimoto, model and actress
1986 - Aya Suzaki, voice actress and singer
1993 - Emi Takei, model, actress, and singer

Deaths

1784 - Yosa Buson (b. 1716), poet and painter
1926 - Emperor Taishō (b. 1879)
1988 - Shōhei Ōoka (b. 1909), author and critic
2006 - Hiroaki Hidaka (b. 1962), serial killer

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December 26

December 26:

Events

1933 - The Nissan Motor Company is organized in Tokyo.

Births

1958 - Mieko Harada, actress, singer, and producer
1959 - Kōji Morimoto, animator and director
1961 - Kazuhisa Kawahara, actor
1973 - Nobuhiko Matsunaka, baseball player
1978 - Kaoru Sugayama, volleyball player
1982 - Shun Oguri, actor
1983 - Yu Takahashi, singer-songwriter
1985 - Yu Shirota, Japanese-Spanish actor and singer
1986 - Mew Azama, model and actress
1988 - Kayo Satoh, model and television personality
1990 - Shota Matsushima, actor
1996 - Airi Matsui, singer, model, and actress
1996 - Kasumi Yamaya, actress and model

Deaths

1960 - Tetsuro Watsuji (b. 1889), historian and philosopher

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December 27

December 27:

Events

1922 - Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō becomes the first purpose built aircraft carrier to be commissioned in the world.
1923 - Daisuke Namba, a Japanese student, tries to assassinate the Prince Regent Hirohito.

Births