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May 1

May 1:

Events

  • 1457 - Edo Castle is fortified by Ōta Dōkan. (Japanese Date: Eighth Day of the Fourth Month, 1457)
  • 1837 - Ōshio Heihachirō dies. (Japanese Date: Twenty-seventh Day of the Third Month, 1837)
  • 1907 - Sakichi Toyoda is the first subject to patent the world's first automatic loom.
  • 1923 - The Tokyo high-speed rail is renamed and Odakyu Electric Railway is founded.
  • 1929 - The Imperial Palace of the Times changes its cannons from "Don" to "Siren". When the signal is noon at Tokyo, the sound from the cannon fire in the imperial palace of "Don" was handed to the siren. It is established in three places, but it is inaudible and unpopular. It is not mistaken for a factory whistle and is sounded at 19:00.
  • 1932 - The first radio surveys are performed.
  • 1937 - Nishinomiya Stadium is opened.
  • 1948 - Hibari Misora debuted in the Yokohama international theater. (as Kazue Misora at the time)
  • 1952 - A blood incident happened on Labor Day.
  • 1975 - Japan's first Nagasaki airport is opened to be the offshore airport.
  • 2000 - The Japan Coast Guard introduced "118 = Emergency Telephone Number". It notified incidents and accidents at sea. It has faster sea rescue and helps to prevent the water's edge from smuggling.

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May 2

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May 3

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May 4

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May 5

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May 6

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May 7

May 7:

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  • 1875 - Japan and Russia signed the Sakhalin Metropolitan Kuril exchange treaty.
  • 1888 - The first Japanese Ph.D. is born.
  • 1969 - The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo opened.
  • 1999 - The administrative agency document, Freedom of Information Act, established. It enforced in April 2001.

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May 8

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May 9

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May 10

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May 11

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May 12

May 12:

Events

  • 1934 - The first radio overseas coverage occurred (ten times of the Far East Championship competition of Manila).
  • 1939 - Japan and Soviet Union battle in Manchuria and the Mongolian border in Nomonhan which started the Nomonhan Incident.
  • 1948 - The Ministry of Health and Welfare distribute the "Mother's Pocketbook" based on the Child Welfare Act. It handed to pregnant women municipality, maternal health, and the baby's developmental state, distribution of milk, and filling out the vaccination collectively. It later became the "Mother and Child Health Handbook" in 1965.
  • 1980 - "Mother" is the death of the post-war half-breed. Director Miki Sawada died at the Elizabeth Sanders Home that was known as the "Mother" and was born in the post-war turmoil half-breed in Spain. From 1948, an investment of private property and embarked on a half-breed rescue, about 2,000 people left home.
  • 1984 - NHK satellite broadcasting begins, it became a clear image even in the Ogasawara Islands.

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May 13

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May 14

May 14:

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  • 1878 - Ōkubo Toshimichi is assassinated in complaints by samurai Kio Isaka
  • 1969 - Tokyo's Shinjuku Station west exit underground plaza "Fork Rally" is restricted. The police embark to eliminate as the hinder traffic. The Fork Rally is also a circle of debate over the Vietnam War and the Okinawa issue. Its confrontation with the police intensified until July.
  • 1971 - After winning 32 times of large yonozuka, Taihō Kōki retires.
  • 1971 - Kiyoshi Ōkubo is arrested for killing eight women.
  • 1991 - Fuji announced his retirement of Chiyo.
  • 1991 - A train collision accident happened in Shigaraki Kogen railway in Shigaraki Prefecture. Up to 42 people died.

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May 15

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May 16

May 16:

Events

  • 1689 - Matsuo Bashō's journey of "The Narrow Road to the Deep North". He went out to Michinoku with his disciples. (Japanese Date: Twenty-seventh Day of the Third Month, 1689)
  • 1889 - The Imperial Museum opened in Tokyo, Kyoto, and Nara.
  • 1949 - Japan joins the World Health Organization.
  • 1958 - Television reception contracts exceeded one million.
  • 1968 - The Tokachi-oki earthquake occurred, 52 people are either dead or missing.
  • 1975 - The Japan Women's expedition succeeded in the first Mount Everest ascent as a woman.
  • 1995 - Chizuo Matsumoto of Aum Shinrikyo is arrested.

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May 17

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May 18

May 18:

Events

  • 1870 - Telegrams started between Tokyo and Yokohama. (Japanese Date: Eighteenth Day of the Fourth Month, 1870)
  • 1899 - The Bangkok Peace Conference is first held in the Hague.
  • 1936 - In a crime that shocked Japan, Sada Abe strangled her lover Kichizo Ishida, cut off his genitals, and carried them around with her for several days until her arrest.
  • 1984 - Nationality Act Amendment is established.

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May 19

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May 20

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May 21

May 21:

Events

  • 1936 - Sada Abe is arrested after wandering the streets of Tokyo for days with her dead lover's severed genitals in her handbag. Her story soon becomes one of Japan's most notorious scandals.
  • 2010 - JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year.

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May 22

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May 23

May 23:

Events

  • 1896 - One high baseball team play against a foreign team from Yokohama (first baseball game of a foreigner). The Daiichi baseball team won in 29-4.
  • 1919 - 3 Yen or more taxpayers to election law established that gives the right to vote.
  • 1969 - A pollution white paper is first announced for the first time.
  • 1980 - Kagemusha directed by Akira Kurosawa wins the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. It was the first Japanese film since Jigokumon in 26 years.

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May 24

May 24:

Events

  • 670 - The Horyuji Temple burned down. (Japanese Date: Thirtieth Day of the Fourth Month, 670)
  • 905 - The imperial rescript of Kokin Wakashū compiled. (Japanese Date: Eighteenth Day of the Fourth Month, 905)
  • 1878 - The first impaired school in Japan opened in Kyoto.
  • 1900 - The Meiji government banned men and women of mixed bathing for more than twelve years of age.
  • 1903 - Kobe Golf Club perform its opening ceremony in Kobe and Rokko Mountain, which became Japan's first golf course.
  • 1926 - Tokachidake eruption killed 144 people. It caused a large explosion, which is located in the center of Hokkaido, such as Furano pioneer village in the muddy water jet which flowed instantly, and became a catastrophe of 144 dead.
  • 1942 - Professional baseball extended 28 times in Nagoya versus ocean warfare.
  • 1949 - A law is promulgated change people's age calculation from the traditional "Kazoedoshi Formula" to "How to Count the Full". By promulgation, infants born on December will be two years old in January, it can receive a distribution of sweets, and there was a defect such that reduced the distribution to be calculated sixty generations to reverse. A newspaper reported that "people became a rejuvenated thing".
  • 1955 - Emperor Hirohito watched his first sumo in Kokugikan.
  • 1956 - The Anti-Prostitution Act is promulgated.
  • 1960 - Large damage to the Sanriku region in the tsunami of the Chilean earthquake. 139 people are dead or missing during the disaster.

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May 25

May 25:

Events

  • 723 - The third generation law is enacted. (Japanese Date: Seventeenth Day of the Fourth Month, 723)
  • 1892 - The Tokyo Carriage Railway launch a student discount ticket.
  • 1949 - The Ministry of International Trade and Industry is installed.
  • 1970 - Professional Baseball Match-fixing Incident: In the "Black Fog Incident" three players are expelled permanently. In the Professional baseball Commissioner Committee, match-fixing became a problem in baseball, Nishitetsu (at the time) announced the decision for the six players of the team. They joined the eliminated acts as stipulated in baseball agreement, pitcher Masaaki Ikenaga said that there is a money transfer is the disposal of permanent exile, and three other players also received the disposal of duties stopped ans strict reprimand. Activities of disposal cancellation is still continuing against the disposal of the Ikenaga players.
  • 1998 - Singer Seiko Matsuda is married for the second time. They divorced in December 2000.

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May 26

May 26:

Events

  • 752 - The Buddha opening memorial of Nara Todaji is performed. (Japanese Date: Ninth Day of the Fourth Month, 752)
  • 1869 - The Currency Exchange is renamed in Ginza. (Japanese Date: Fifteenth Day of the Fourth Month, 1869)
  • 1916 - Natsume Sōseki serialization initiates a "Meian" in the Asahi Shimbun.
  • 1937 - Yama Futaba becomes the 35th Yokozuna.
  • 1947 - The "Lucky Zone" is installed in the Koshien.
  • 1959 - The Tokyo Olympic Games is determined by the IOC General Assembly.
  • 1963 - Taiho Yokozuna play his first-ever six-consecutive accomplishment.
  • 1969 - Opening of the Tomei Expressway whole line.
  • 1971 - Television shoppin begins.
  • 1983 - 99 people died in the Sea of Japan earthquake.

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May 27

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May 28

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May 29

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May 30

May 30:

Events

  • 713 - Emperor Genmei ordered the armistice of the "fudoki". (Japanese Date: Second Day of the Fifth Month, 713)
  • 1590 - Edo Castle surrendered. (Japanese Date: Twenty-seventh Day of the Fourth Month, 1590)
  • 1921 - The Ministry of Communications allowed private wireless telephones.
  • 1958 - Closure of the war criminal camp Sugamo Prison.
  • 1966 - US military nuclear submarine Snook arrived in Yonosuka for the first time.
  • 1967 - Toyo Kogyo's (currently Mazda) Cosmo Sports is the first rotary engine vehicle in the world on sale.
  • 1968 - Promulgated Consumer Production Basic Law.
  • 1972 - Tel Aviv airport shootings, 26 people were killed.
  • 1983 - A policy of the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications will allow CATV business to the private sector is announced.
  • 1990 - An acid icicle is found in Tsuchiura, Ibaraki Prefecture.

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May 31

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