Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/May/May 18
Events
- 1870 - Telegrams started between Tokyo and Yokohama. (Japanese Date: Eighteenth Day of the Fourth Month, 1870)
- 1899 - The Bangkok Peace Conference is first held in the Hague.
- 1936 - In a crime that shocked Japan, Sada Abe strangled her lover Kichizo Ishida, cut off his genitals, and carried them around with her for several days until her arrest.
- 1984 - Nationality Act Amendment is established.
Births
- 1904 - Shunryū Suzuki (d. 1971), Japanese-American monk and educator
- 1947 - Akira Terao, singer and actor
- 1956 - Naomichi Ozaki, golfer
- 1971 - Nobuteru Taniguchi, race car driver
- 1988 - Kōji Seto, actor and singer
- 1990 - Yuya Osako, footballer
Film and television
- 2012 - The Complex, a horror film starring Atsuko Maeda and Hiroki Narimiya