Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/January/January 29
Events
- 1879 - Japan enters into an international telecommunications treaty.
- 1934 - The Japan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. is formed from the merger of Hachiman Steel and several other privately owned companies.
- 1940 - Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi station. 181 people are killed.
- 1944 - Editors of Reform magazine and Central Review magazine are arrested in a wartime crackdown against liberal intellectuals known as the Yokohama Incident.
- 1957 - The Shōwa Base is established at the South Pole.
- 1961 - Mokkan (inscribed wooden slabs) are excavated at the site of the former capital Heijōkyō in Nara.
- 1968 - A strike at the faculty of medicine marks the beginning of a period of demonstrations and unrest at Tokyo University.
Births
- 1938 - Shuji Tsurumi, gymnast
- 1940 - Kunimitsu Takahashi, motorcycle racer and race car driver
- 1954 - Yukinobu Hoshino, illustrator
- 1969 - Hyde, singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
- 1981 - Ryūji Aoki, impressionist and singer
- 1986 - Sotaro, Japanese-American actor and model
- 1988 - Masaki Kaji, actor and singer
- 1993 - Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, singer and model
- 1994 - Ayane Sakura, voice actress
- 1998 - Mion Mukaichi, singer and actress
Deaths
- 1991 - Yasushi Inoue (b. 1907), author and poet