Events
- 1869 - Emperor Meiji visit Ise Shrine for the first time as an Emperor. (Japanese Date: Twelfth Day of the Third Month, 1869)
- 1895 - Triple Intervention
- 1895 - Russia, Germany and France ask Japan to give back Liaodong Peninsula to China.
- 1949 - The value of the yen was fixed at ¥360 per US$1 by Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers.
- 1955 - Sōka Gakkai gains in the third local government elections.
- 1966 - Nissan start selling the new brand Nissan Sunny.
- 1974 - Completion of Akasaka Palace refitting.
Births
- 1899 - Minoru Shirota (d. 1982), physician and microbiologist, invented Yakult
- 1957 - Kenji Kawai, composer and conductor
- 1970 - Sadao Abe, actor and singer
Deaths
- 1966 - George Ohsawa (b. 1893), founder of the Macrobiotic diet