Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/November/November 1
Events
- 1943 - World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.
Births
- 1852 - Honinbo Shuei (d. 1907), Go player
- 1886 - Sakutarō Hagiwara (d. 1942), poet and critic
- 1931 - Chosuke Ikariya (d. 2004), bass player and actor
- 1931 - Shunsuke Kikuchi, composer
- 1936 - Katsuhisa Hattori, composer and conductor
- 1936 - Shizuka Kamei, politician
- 1946 - Yuko Shimizu, designer
- 1959 - Eriko Hara, voice actress
- 1971 - Metal Yoshida, actor and musician
- 1983 - Yuko Ogura, model and singer
- 1988 - Ai Fukuhara, table tennis player
- 1988 - Masahiro Tanaka, baseball player
Film and television
- 2014 - Clover, a film starring Emi Takei, Tadayoshi Okura, Kento Nagayama, Natsuna Watanabe, and Haruka Kinami
Holidays, observances, and anniversaries