Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/January/January 24
Events
- 1336 - Ashikaga Takauji defeats Nitta Yoshisada at Hakone. (Traditional Japanese Date: Eleventh Day of the Twelfth Month, 1335)
- 1946 - The General Headquarters abolishes licensed prostitution.
- 1969 - The governor of Tokyo, Minobe Ryōkichi announces the end of public sponsored gambling.
- 1971 - The popular band Group sounds band The Tigers perform their last concert.
- 1972 - Two hunters discover Yokoi Shōichi, a former lieutenant in the Japanese army who lived in a cave in Guam for 28 years after the end of World War II. Upon his return to Japan on February 2, he proclaimed, "it is with much shame that I return."
- 1990 - Japan successfully launches an experimental satellite, the Hiten.
Births
- 1936 - Yōko Nogiwa, actress
- 1947 - Michio Kaku, Japanese-American physicist and academic
- 1947 - Masashi Ozaki, baseball player and golfer
- 1959 - Akira Maeda, wrestler, mixed martial artist, and actor
- 1963 - Houka Kinoshita, actor
- 1972 - Naoshi Mizuta, bass player and composer
- 1977 - Kensuke Kita, singer and guitarist
- 1985 - Yuki Ito, actor and musician
- 1990 - Mao Abe, singer-songwriter
- 1995 - Yū Wakui, Japanese voice actor
Deaths
- 1973 - Masao Ohba (b. 1949), boxer