Events
- 1870 - The Tokyo government issues a permit to rickshaw inventors Izumi Yosuke, Suzuki Tokujiro and Takayama Kosuke to build and sell them. (Japanese Date: Twenty-second Day of the Third Month, 1870)
- 1901 - Japanese braille is first published.
- 1925 - Peace Preservation Law of 1925 is publicly announced.
- 1946 - Japanese comic-strip Sazae-san is first published in the newspaper Fukunichi Shimbun.
- 1947 - The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department begin testing the polygraph.
- 1950 - Fujiko Yamamoto wins the first The Miss Japan Grand Prix Pageant.
- 1981 - Mother Teresa visits Japan for the first time.
Births
- 1912 - Kaneto Shindo (d. 2012), director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1938 - Issey Miyake, fashion designer
- 1954 - Jōji Nakata, voice actor
- 1971 - Daisuke Enomoto, businessman
- 1982 - Noriko Shitaya, voice actress