Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/May/May 18

May 18:

Events

  • 1870 - Telegrams started between Tokyo and Yokohama. (Japanese Date: Eighteenth Day of the Fourth Month, 1870)
  • 1899 - The Bangkok Peace Conference is first held in the Hague.
  • 1936 - In a crime that shocked Japan, Sada Abe strangled her lover Kichizo Ishida, cut off his genitals, and carried them around with her for several days until her arrest.
  • 1984 - Nationality Act Amendment is established.

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