Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/January/January 18
Births
- 885 - Emperor Daigo (d. 930)
- 1868 - Kantarō Suzuki (d. 1948), admiral and politician, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan
- 1879 - Tane Ikai (d. 1995), super-centenarian
- 1921 - Yoichiro Nambu (d. 2015), Japanese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1944 - Kei Ogura, singer-songwriter and composer
- 1947 - Sachio Kinugasa, baseball player and journalist
- 1947 - Takeshi Kitano, actor and director
- 1966 - Kazufumi Miyazawa, singer
- 1973 - Shinobu Nakayama, actress and singer
- 1979 - Hirofumi Arai, Japanese-Korean actor
- 1984 - Makoto Hasebe, footballer
- 1986 - Ikusaburo Yamazaki, actor and singer
Film and television
- 2002 - Kisarazu Cat's Eye begins airing on Tokyo Broadcasting System, starring Junichi Okada, Sho Sakurai, Yoshinori Okada, Ryuta Sato, and Takashi Tsukamoto