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April 1

April 1:

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  • 1867 - Japan participates in its first world expo, the Paris World Expo. (Traditional Japanese Date: Twenty-seventh Day of the Second Month, 1867)
  • 1880 - The Mitsubishi Foreign Exchange, the precursor to the Bank of Mitsubishi, is established.
  • 1889 - Fukuoka City is established. The population at the time was a mere 50,847 people. The following year a proposal to change the name to Hakata City failed to pass by only one vote.
  • 1914 - The Takarazuka Revue perform for the first time.
  • 1929 - The Kotobukiya company, the predecessor to Suntory, begins selling the first whisky distilled in Japan.
  • 1930 - Japan's first underground shopping center is opened in Ueno.
  • 1940 - Income tax withholding begins.
  • 1947 - The 6-3 system of education (6 years of compulsory grade school followed by 3 years of compulsory junior high school) is implemented. The goal of the new system was to achieve equality of education for all. A high school system was implemented the following year and a university system was implemented in 1949.
  • 1957 - A law against prostitution is implemented.
  • 1964 - Restrictions on overseas tourism are lifted.
  • 1982 - The government begins minting 500 yen coins.
  • 1985 - NTT and Japan Tobacco are established.
  • 1987 - Japanese National Railways is split up and privatized.
  • 1989 - Japan's first consumption tax is implemented. The tax started at 3% and was raised to 5% in 1997.
  • 1989 - Sendai becomes the eleventh city designated by government ordinance.
  • 1991 - Participation in the national pension scheme becomes compulsory for everyone between the ages of 20 and 60.
  • 2001 - An electronic consumer goods recycling law is implemented.

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April 2

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April 3

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  • 700 - Buddhist monk Dōshō becomes the first person in Japanese history to be cremated. (Traditional Japanese Date: Tenth Day of the Third Month, 700)
  • 1582 - Oda Nobunaga defeats Takeda Katsunori, eliminating the Takeda hereditary line. (Traditional Japanese Date: Eleventh Day of the Third Month, 1582)
  • 1687 - The Edo Shogunate establishes a registration system for pet dogs. (Traditional Japanese Date: Twenty-first Day of the Second Month, 1687)
  • 1825 - A law is passed mandating that foreign ships be driven away and not allowed to land. (Traditional Japanese Date: Fifteenth Day of the Second Month, 1825)
  • 1895 - Japan's first tree planting ceremony is held.
  • 1911 - The modern day Nihonbashi is opened. The famed Tokyo bridge is rebuilt as a stone arch designed to evoke the European renaissance style.
  • 1919 - Yamamoto Sanehiko establishes the socialist Kaizō Magazine (Reform Magazine), which was published until 1955. Shiga Naoya's A Dark Night's Passing (暗夜行路, Anya Kōro) and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's Kappa (河童) were both born in the literary section of Kaizō.
  • 1928 - Followers of the religion Tenrikyō are suppressed when the religion is found to be in violation of the law against irreverence against the emperor.
  • 1930 - The first automatic train ticket dispensers appear in Tokyo and Ueno stations.
  • 1947 - The first Japanese nightingales (young women chosen to be announcers because of their beautiful voices) make their appearance at the Kōrakuen Stadium.

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  • 1888 - The magazine Nihonjin is first published.

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April 4

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April 5

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April 6

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April 7

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April 8

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April 9

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  • 702 - Japan's first legal system of measurement is implemented. (Traditional Japanese Date: Eighth Day of the Third Month, 702)
  • 1890 - A ceremony is held for the opening of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
  • 1935 - Three of Minobe Tatsukichi's publications setting forth his theory that the emperor is merely a legal figure who exercises power on behalf of the people in whom sovereignty resides (the imperial institution theory) are outlawed. Minobe eventually quits the House of Peers.
  • 1939 - The first group recruitment train, carrying 580 students looking for work, travels from Akita to Ueno.
  • 1952 - A Japan Airlines passenger plane crashes into Mt. Mihara on the Izu Peninsula, killing 37 people, including entertainer Ōtsuji Shirō.
  • 1981 - An American nuclear submarine collides with a Japanese cargo ship, the Nisshōmaru.
  • 1992 - Singer Fujiyama Ichirō becomes the ninth person to be awarded the National Honor Award (国民栄誉賞, Kokumin Eiyō-shō).

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April 10

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April 11

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April 12

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April 13

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  • 1856 - The shogunate abolishes the practice of requiring suspected Christians to step on fumie at the newly opened ports. (Traditional Japanese Date: Ninth Day of the Third Month, 1856)
  • 1888 - Japan's first coffee shop, the Kahi (coffee) Sakan, opens in Ueno.
  • 1903 - The system of nationally approved primary school textbooks is implemented.
  • 1922 - The Boy Scouts of Japan is formed.
  • 1930 - The Japan Gymnastics Association is formed.
  • 1941 - A Neutrality pact between Japan and the Soviet Union is signed in Moscow.
  • 1986 - Hiroaki Nagae and family return to Japan four years and nine months after setting of an around-the-world yachting expedition.

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April 14

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  • 1603 - Nihonbashi is completed and quickly becomes the center of Japanese commerce. (Traditional Japanese Date: Third Day of the Third Month, 1603)
  • 1670 - The Hakone reservoir is completed. (Traditional Japanese Date: Twenty-fifth Day of the Second Month, 1670)
  • 1879 - A Japanese pilots a steam train for the first time.
  • 1947 - Japan's antimonopoly law is passed.
  • 1989 - Nintendo announces its first Game Boy.

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April 15

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April 16

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April 17

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  • 667 - Prince Naka no Ōe moves the capital from Asuka to the Ōtsu Palace. (Traditional Japanese Date: Nineteenth Day of the Third Month, 667)
  • 1870 - A licensing system for rickshaw's is implemented. (Traditional Japanese Date: Seventeenth Day of the Third Month, 1870)
  • 1895 - The Treaty of Shimonoseki is signed, whereby China recognized Korea's independence and renounced all claims to it, ceded some territory, including Taiwan, to Japan, and agreed to pay reparations
  • 1898 - Western-style artist Yuzo Saeki is born. Saeki travelled to France in 1923 and was heavily influenced by Maurice Utrillo. He is best known for his paintings of Paris. He died at the age of 31.
  • 1947 - A public employment assistance office is opened.
  • 1947 - The regional and local administrative law is passed, establishing the organization and operation of regional administrative regions and their relationship with the national government.
  • 1968 - Tokyo governor Minobe officially recognizes the Korea University in Kodaira, Tokyo.

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April 18

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April 19

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April 20

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April 21

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April 22

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April 23

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April 24

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April 25

April 25:

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  • 1185 - 壇ノ浦の合戦で、平家が滅亡。 (Japanese Date: Twenty-fourth Day of the Third Month, 1185)
  • 1644 - 大明帝国滅亡 (Japanese Date: Nineteenth Day of the Third Month, 1644)
  • 1683 - 八百屋お七が火あぶりの刑となる。歌舞伎などの演目でも知られる八百屋の娘「お七」が放火の罪で鈴ケ森で火あぶりの極刑に処せられる。お七はその時18歳、お七が丙午生まれだったことから、丙午生まれの女子が疎まれるようになった (Japanese Date: Twenty-ninth Day of the Third Month, 1683)
  • 1868 - 福沢諭吉が慶応義塾を開校。私塾を芝に移し、年号にちなみ慶應義塾と改称する。 (Japanese Date: Third Day of the Fourth Month, 1868)
  • 1888 - 市町村制が公布される。
  • 1926 - ドイツ製入場券自動販売機が登場
  • 1934 - 吉本興業、東京・新橋演舞場で「特選漫才大会」を開く。
  • 1980 - モスクワオリンピック不参加を政府が発表。
  • 1980 - 大貫久男さん、東京・銀座で1億円入りの包みを拾う。東京・銀座の道路わきで、トラック運転手がふろしき包みを拾う。中は、1万円札で、1億円。警察に届け、一時は、「犯罪に関する金か!?」と騒がれるが、6ケ月と14日の届け出期間を過ぎても落とし主が現れず11月9日に時効成立。1億円は大貫さんへ。
  • 1992 - ロック歌手、尾崎豊急死。泥酔した状態で東京都内の民家で保護されたが、肺水腫で死亡した。「十七歳の地図」で熱狂的な支持を得、若者のカリスマ的存在でもあった。

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April 26

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April 27

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April 28

April 28:

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  • 1661 - 伊達堀(神田川)完成 (Japanese Date: Twenty-ninth Day of the Third Month, 1661)
  • 1883 - 日本銀行開業。日本で唯一の銀行券を発行できる銀行=日本銀行がこの日開業。
  • 1908 - ブラジル移民が出発。日本人最初のブラジル移民780人が、神戸港からブラジルに向け出発した。1960年代の高度成長期に衰退するが、戦前・戦後を通じ、約25万人が移住した。
  • 1937 - 初の文化勲章の授与式が行われる(横山大観、幸田露伴ら)。
  • 1948 - 夏時刻法が公布される(サマータイム・実施は5月2日から)。5月第1土曜日から、9月第2土曜日まで時計の針を1時間進める「夏時刻法」が公布されたが、睡眠不足になったなどクレームが相次ぎ1952年に廃止。
  • 1952 - The San Francisco Peace Treaty between Japan and part of the Allied Powers comes into force.
  • 1964 - Japan formally joins the OECD.
  • 1964 - The male-oriented magazine Heibon Punch publishes its first issue.

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April 29

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April 30

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