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April 9:

Events

  • 702 - Japan's first legal system of measurement is implemented. (Traditional Japanese Date: Eighth Day of the Third Month, 702)
  • 1890 - A ceremony is held for the opening of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
  • 1935 - Three of Minobe Tatsukichi's publications setting forth his theory that the emperor is merely a legal figure who exercises power on behalf of the people in whom sovereignty resides (the imperial institution theory) are outlawed. Minobe eventually quits the House of Peers.
  • 1939 - The first group recruitment train, carrying 580 students looking for work, travels from Akita to Ueno.
  • 1952 - A Japan Airlines passenger plane crashes into Mt. Mihara on the Izu Peninsula, killing 37 people, including entertainer Ōtsuji Shirō.
  • 1981 - An American nuclear submarine collides with a Japanese cargo ship, the Nisshōmaru.
  • 1992 - Singer Fujiyama Ichirō becomes the ninth person to be awarded the National Honor Award (国民栄誉賞, Kokumin Eiyō-shō).

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