Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/October/October 19
Events
- 1956 - The Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956 is signed
Births
- 1276 - Prince Hisaaki (d. 1328)
- 1910 - Shunkichi Hamada (d. 2009), field hockey player
- 1916 - Minoru Yasui (d. 1986), Japanese-American lawyer
- 1931 - Atsushi Miyagi, tennis player
- 1955 - LaSalle Ishii, television personality, actor, voice actor, and director
- 1958 - Hiromi Hara, footballer
- 1960 - Ayuo, Japanese-American composer, poet, lyricist, and singer
- 1960 - Takeshi Koshida, footballer
- 1967 - Yōji Matsuda, actor and voice actor
- 1967 - Yoko Shimomura, pianist and composer
- 1975 - Shian-Li Tsang, model
- 1976 - Hiroshi Sakai, footballer
- 1977 - Takamasa Suga, actor
- 1979 - Sachiko Sugiyama, volleyball player
- 1979 - Hiromi Yanagihara (d. 1999), singer and actress
- 1984 - Saki Fujita, voice actress
- 1985 - Erina Yamaguchi, model
- 1987 - Tsunenori Aoki, actor
- 1987 - Fumino Kimura, actress
- 1989 - Rakuto Tochihara, actor
- 1992 - Shiho, actress and model
- 1994 - Kenta Suga, actor
Deaths
- 1619 - Fujiwara Seika (b. 1561), philosopher
Film and television
- 1974 - Castle of Sand, a police procedural film starring Tetsurō Tamba, Go Kato, and Kensaku Morita
- 2010 - Freeter, Ie wo Kau begins airing on Fuji Television and Kyodo Television, starring Kazunari Ninomiya, Naoto Takenaka, Atsuko Asano, and Haruka Igawa