Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/July/July 25
Events
- 1869 - The daimyō begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
- 1894 - The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
- 1907 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
- 1908 - Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.
Births
- 1562 - Katō Kiyomasa (d. 1611), warlord
- 1974 - Kenzo Suzuki, wrestler
- 1981 - Yūichi Komano, footballer
Film and television
- 2015 - Tōkyō Mukokuseki Shōjo, a suspense thriller film starring Nana Seino, Nobuaki Kaneko, and Lily