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April 13:

Events

• 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.

Births

• 1955 - Hideki Saijo, singer
• 1984 - Hiro Mizushima, actor

Film and television

• 1994 - Furuhata Ninzaburō begins airing in Fuji Television, starring Masakazu Tamura and Masahiko Nishimura
• 2013 - The Great Passage, a film starring Ryuhei Matsuda