Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/August/August 1
Events
- 607 - Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
- 1894 - The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.
Births
- 1313 - Emperor Kōgon (d. 1364)
- 1377 - Emperor Go-Komatsu (d. 1433)
- 1933 - Masaichi Kaneda, baseball player and manager
- 1959 - Yoshihide Ōtomo, guitarist and songwriter
- 1963 - Koichi Wakata, astronaut and engineer
- 1968 - Shigetoshi Hasegawa, baseball player
- 1975 - Ryoko Yonekura, actress and model
- 1977 - Yoshi Tatsu, wrestler and boxer
- 1982 - Ai Tominaga, model and actress
- 1987 - Rumi Hiiragi, actress
- 1989 - Tomoka Kurokawa, actress
- 1994 - Ayaka Wada, singer
Deaths
- 1227 - Shimazu Tadahisa (b. 1179), warlord