Events
- 1879 - The Ryūkyū Clan is abolished and Okinawa is born.
- 1890 - Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, known in Japan as Koizumi Yakumo after gaining Japanese citizenship, first arrives in Japan.
- 1899 - The Tokyo University of Foreign Studies is founded.
- 1905 - The Waseda Baseball Club travels abroad for the first time.
- 1978 - The female singing trio known as Candies play their final concert at the Kōrakuen Stadium.
Births
- 1884 - Isoroku Yamamoto (d. 1943), admiral
- 1946 - Katsuaki Satō, martial artist and coach
- 1957 - Nobuyoshi Kuwano, singer and trumpet player
- 1974 - Shōei, actor
- 1990 - Yūki Mihara, model
- 1991 - Yui Koike, model and actress
- 1994 - Shunsuke Nishikawa, actor
- 1994 - Risako Sugaya, singer and actress
- 1999 - Miki Nishino, singer, dancer, and actress
Film and television
- 1983 - Oshin begins airing on NHK, starring Ayako Kobayashi, Yūko Tanaka, Nobuko Otowa, Pinko Izumi, Shiro Itō, Masatoshi Nakamura, and Tsunehiko Watase