Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/March/March 26
Events
- 1796 - Japan's first Dutch-Japanese dictionary is published. (Traditional Japanese Date: Eighteenth Day of the Second Month, 1796)
- 1914 - Kachusha, a wartime song about a girl longing for her beloved, who is away on military service, is performed at the Imperial Garden Theater for the first time.
- 1945 - The Battle of Okinawa, where 230,000 lose their lives, begins.
- 1978 - Radical protestors break into the control tower at Narita Airport.
Births
- 1914 - Toru Kumon (d. 1995), mathematician and academic
- 1948 - Ayumi Ishida, singer and actress
- 1954 - Kazuhiko Inoue, voice actor and singer
- 1963 - Natsuhiko Kyogoku, author
- 1974 - Kumiko Goto, singer and actress
- 1979 - Hiromi Uehara, pianist and composer
- 1980 - Ryouhei Abe, actor
- 1981 - Ai Shimizu, voice actress and wrestler
- 1987 - Yui, singer-songwriter and actress
- 1990 - Yuya Takaki, singer and actor
- 1990 - Yūya Yagira, actor
- 1994 - Mayu Watanabe, singer and actress