Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/August/August 30
Events
- 1590 - Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle. (Traditional Japanese date: August 1, 1590)
- 1945 - Hong Kong is liberated from Japan by British Armed Forces.
- 1962 - Japan conducts a test of the NAMC YS-11, its first aircraft since the war and its only successful commercial aircraft from before or after the war.
- 1974 - Powerful bomb explodes at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries headquarters in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan. 8 killed, 378 injured. Eight left-wing activists are arrested on May 19, 1975 by Japanese authorities.
Births
- 1983 - Jun Matsumoto, singer, dancer, and actor
Deaths
- 1428 - Emperor Shōkō (b. 1401)
- 1619 - Shimazu Yoshihiro (b. 1535), samurai and warlord
Film and television
- 2014 - Lupin III, an action film starring Shun Oguri, Tetsuji Tamayama, Gō Ayano, Meisa Kuroki, Tadanobu Asano, Jerry Yan, and Kim Joon