Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/February/February 28
Events
- 1754 - Yamawaki Tōyō becomes the first Japanese to perform experiments on people. (Traditional Japanese Date: Seventh Day of the Second Month, 1754)
- 1952 - The U.S.-Japan Status of Forces Agreement is signed.
- 1953 - During a meeting of the Budget Committee of the Lower House, Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida responds to a question by Socialist Party member Eiichi Nishimura by yelling "bakayarō! (idiot!)". The prime minister later loses a vote of confidence on March 14 in what has come to be referred to as the bakayarō dissolution.
- 1957 - Japan's South Pole expeditionary ship the Sōya gets stuck in ice and is later rescued by a Russian ice cutter.
- 1964 - Fujio Fujiko's Obake no Q-tarō begins its run in the Weekly Sunday.
- 1972 - Police storm the Asama Mountain Resort where five members of the Japanese Red Army have taken a hostage, ending the Asama-Sanso incident. Two policemen are killed and 13 people are injured.
- 1982 - Ayako Okamoto wins the LPGA Arizona Copper Classic, the first Japanese woman to win the LPGA since Higuchi Hisako's win in 1977.
Births
- 1950 - Futatsuryū Jun'ichi (d. 2014), sumo wrestler and coach
- 1960 - Tōru Ōkawa, voice actor
- 1961 - Toshihiko Tahara, singer
- 1971 - Junya Nakano, pianist and composer
- 1973 - Mari Hanafusa, actress
- 1973 - Masato Tanaka, wrestler
- 1978 - Rei Kikukawa, actress, model, and television host
- 1991 - Hikaru Yamamoto, actress
- 1997 - Kyoko Yoshine, actress
Deaths
- 1993 - Ishirō Honda (b. 1911), director, producer, and screenwriter
Film and television
- 2015 - Kuchibiru ni uta o, a film starring Yui Aragaki