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February 1

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February 2

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February 3

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February 4

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February 5

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February 6

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February 7

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February 8

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  • 1567 - Ieyasu obtains permission from the court to change his surname from Matsudaira to Tokugawa. (Traditional Japanese Date: Twenty-ninth Day of the Twelfth Month, 1566)
  • 1882 - The Hokkaidō Development Agency is abolished.
  • 1887 - Japan adopts the official postal mark (〒).
  • 1958 - 9,500 people come to see the first western style carnival is held in Yūrakuchō, Tokyo.
  • 1959 - The 6.1 km Kurobe Tunnel in the northern Japan Alps is completed, allowing work on the Kuroyon Power Plant to continue.
  • 1982 - 33 people are killed and 29 are injured in the Hotel New Japan fire in Akasaka, Tokyo.
  • 1983 - The average height of high school senior boys reaches 170 cm (5' 7").

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February 9

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February 10

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February 11

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February 12

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February 13

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February 14

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  • 1917 - A magazine for housewives, Shufu no Tomo, goes on sale for the first time. By 1941, it reached a circulation of 1,800,000.
  • 1942Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
  • 1944 – World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java.
  • 1945 - Japan sets a record for the most snowfall with 785 centimeters of accumulation at Mori-Miyanohara Station in Nagano Prefecture.
  • 1973 - The yen is allowed to trade freely against the dollar. Trading opens that 277 yen to the dollar after having been fixed at 308 yen to the dollar just the day before.
  • 1992 - Sagawa Kyūbin's former president, Watanabe Hiroyasu, is arrested with 3 others in the Sagawa Kyūbin scandal.
  • 1996 - Han'yū Yoshiharu becomes the first person to win seven straight crowns in Shōgi (Japanese chess.)

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February 15

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February 16

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February 17

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February 18

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  • 661 - Empress Saimei travels to the Dōgo Hot Springs. (Traditional Japanese Date: Fourteenth Day of the First Month, 661)
  • 1772 - Tanuma Okitsugu is appointed Elder Councilor. (Traditional Japanese Date: Fifteenth Day of the First Month, 1772)
  • 1904 - An anti-smoking campaign starts and smoking is prohibited on Tokyo's city trains.
  • 1935 - Minobe Tatsukichi's theory that the emperor is merely a legal figure that exercises power on behalf of the nation in whom sovereignty resides comes under attack in the upper house.
  • 1938 - The Ministry of the Interior issues an order that prohibits the publication, scheduled for the next day, of the March issue of Chūō Kōron. Publication is prohibited because of its inclusion of a novel written by Ishikawa Tatsuzō, based on his experiences in Shanghai, entitled "Living Soldier". The story was considered anti-military.
  • 1950 - Sapporo's first annual Snow Festival takes place.

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February 20

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  • 668 - Prince Naka no Ōe accedes to the throne as Emperor Tenji. (Traditional Japanese Date: Third Day of the First Month, 668)
  • 1582 - Itō Mansho's entourage leaves for Rome. (Traditional Japanese Date: Twenty-eighth Day of the First Month, 1582)
  • 1923 - The Maru Building, at the time the largest office building in Asia, was completed on this date after 25 months of construction. It was located in front of Tokyo Station in Marunouchi and was only nine stories high with one underground level. It was built at a total cost of 11 million yen. The ground floor consisted of a number of book stores and the second through the ninth floor was filled with over 350 tenants.
  • 1928 - Japan's first public election was held on this day. Voting was limited to males 25 or older.
  • 1933 - Kobayashi Takiji, author of such proletariat novels as Kani Kōsen (The Floating Crab Cannery), is arrested, tortured and brutally murdered at the Tsukiji police station.
  • 1944 – World War II: The United States takes Eniwetok Island.
  • 1968 - Korean resident of Japan Kim Hiro shoots and kills two yakuza gangsters in Shimizu and then takes 20 hostages at the Sumatakyō hot spring resort the next day. He spends the next several days using the media to complain about the treatment of Koreans in Japan until his arrest on the 24th.
  • 1977 - A record 10,710 runners participate in Tokyo's Ōme Marathon.
  • 1985 - The Council on National Language promulgates its reforms on modern kana usage.
  • 1998 – American figure skater Tara Lipinski becomes the youngest gold-medalist at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan.

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February 21

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February 22

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February 23

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February 24

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February 25

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  • 1902 - Tokyo Gas Co. gets an exclusive license to begin selling gas powered rice cookers. It is around this time that gas begins to be used for heating in addition to lighting.
  • 1947 - One hundred eighty four people are killed when a train on the Hachikō Line in Saitama jumps the tracks.
  • 1969 - The Fuji Evening News (Yūkan Fuji) is launched.
  • 1974 - The Budget Committee of the Lower House holds a hearing on consumer prices.
  • 1983 - Sakai City in Osaka passes the nation's first ethics regulations.

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February 26

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February 27

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  • 1870 - The rising sun design of Japan's national flag, initially established for use on merchant ships, is announced. (Traditional Japanese Date: Twenty-seventh Day of the First Month, 1870)
  • 1933 - British playwright Bernard Shaw visits Japan.
  • 1936 - Tokyo establishes martial law.
  • 1942World War II: During the Battle of the Java Sea, an allied strike force is defeated by a Japanese task force in the Java Sea in the Dutch East Indies
  • 1949 - Arsonists set fire to Matsuyama Castle.
  • 1950 - The authority to grant the Sumō title of Yokozuna, or Grand Master, is transferred from the Yoshida family to the newly established Yokozuna Promotion Council.
  • 1955 - NHK begins same-day election coverage with coverage of the Lower House elections.
  • 1966 - The first "Consumer Price Mayday" is held with women holding placards saying things like "prices are so high I can't get married." According to 1965 statistics, the average salary of businessmen was 23,200 yen per month, the average total savings was 138,000 yen and leisure expenses cost an average of 3,000 yen per month.
  • 1985 - Former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka is hospitalized for a stroke.

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February 29

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