Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/August/August 19
Events
- 1965 - Japanese prime minister Eisaku Satō becomes the first post-World War II sitting prime minister to visit Okinawa.
Births
- 1914 - Fumio Hayasaka (d. 1955), composer
- 1962 - Toll Yagami, drummer
- 1969 - Kazuyoshi Tatsunami, baseball player
- 1972 - Chihiro Yonekura, singer-songwriter
- 1974 - Ryo Fukawa, comedian and musician
- 1977 - Takahiro Yamada, singer-songwriter and bass player
- 1986 - Saori Kimura, volleyball player