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January 29:

Events

  • 1879 - Japan enters into an international telecommunications treaty.
  • 1934 - The Japan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. is formed from the merger of Hachiman Steel and several other privately owned companies.
  • 1940 - Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi station. 181 people are killed.
  • 1944 - Editors of Reform magazine and Central Review magazine are arrested in a wartime crackdown against liberal intellectuals known as the Yokohama Incident.
  • 1957 - The Shōwa Base is established at the South Pole.
  • 1961 - Mokkan (inscribed wooden slabs) are excavated at the site of the former capital Heijōkyō in Nara.
  • 1968 - A strike at the faculty of medicine marks the beginning of a period of demonstrations and unrest at Tokyo University.

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