Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/August/August 15

Events

1549 - Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima
1863 - The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom
1869 - Meiji government establishes six ministries below Pardication in the bottom of Cabinet, officer-of-Shinto-Worship, and jurisdiction of Cabinet
1945 - World War II: Victory over Japan Day (USA) - Japan surrenders
1945 - World War II: The Japanese Fourteenth Area Army is disbanded
1961 - Keiyo Road is specified to be the first driveway in Japan
1975 - Miki Takeo makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by a sitting prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II

Births

1865 - Mikao Usui (d. 1926), spiritual leader, founded Reiki
1877 - Tachiyama Mineemon (d. 1941), sumo wrestler, the 22nd Yokozuna
1924 - Yoshirō Muraki (d. 2009), production designer, art director, and fashion designer
1982 - Tsuyoshi Hayashi, actor
1983 - Yōko Honda, voice actress
1994 - Kosuke Hagino, swimmer
1995 - Yui Ogura, voice actress and singer

Deaths