Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/April/April 14

April 14:

Events

  • 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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