Events
- 1907 - The grade school law is revised to provide for six years of mandatory schooling.
- 1934 - A large fire engulfs Hakodate in Hokkaidō, killing 650.
- 1951 - Japan's first color film, Carmen Returns Home (Karumen Furusato ni Kaeru), directed by Keisuke Kinoshita, is shown in Japan.
- 1972 - The Takamatsuzuka Tomb wall paintings are discovered in Asuka-mura, Nara Prefecture.
Births
- 1931 - Toyonobori (d. 1998), sumo wrestler
- 1944 - Hideki Ishima, guitarist
- 1946 - Joseph Mitsuaki Takami, cardinal
- 1951 - Koichi Iwaki, Japanese-Korean actor
- 1959 - Nobuo Uematsu, keyboard player and composer
- 1970 - Shiho Niiyama (d. 2000), voice actress
- 1989 - Takeru Satoh, actor
- 1992 - Erena Mizusawa, model and actress
Film and television
- 2014 - Kamisama no Karute 2, a film starring Sho Sakurai, Aoi Miyazaki, and Tatsuya Fujiwara