Events
- 712 - Ō no Yasumaro presents the Kojiki to Empress Gemmei. (Traditional Japanese Date: Twenty-eighth Day of the First Month, 712)
- 1894 - Japan issues its first commemorative postage stamp, honoring the 25th anniversary of Emperor Meiji's wedding.
- 1951 - Mount Mihara on the Izu Peninsula erupts.
- 1958 - The Kanmon Tunnel is completed connecting Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture on Honshū Island, with Moji-ku, Kitakyūshū on Kyūshū Island.
- 1968 - A lawsuit is brought by the victims of itai-itai disease (cadmium poisoning).
- 1991 - The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building is completed at a cost to taxpayers of 157 billion yen.
Births
- 1285 - Emperor Go-Nijō (d. 1318)
- 1959 - Takaaki Kajita, physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1989 - Yudai Chiba, actor
- 1990 - Tatsuki Machida, figure skater
- 1995 - Hikaru Ohsawa, actress