Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/April/April 23

April 23:

Events
 * 1869 - Emperor Meiji visit Ise Shrine for the first time as an Emperor. (Japanese Date: Twelfth Day of the Third Month, 1869)
 * 1895 - Triple Intervention
 * 1895  - Russia, Germany and France ask Japan to give back Liaodong Peninsula to China.
 * 1949 - The value of the yen was fixed at ¥360 per US$1 by Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers.
 * 1955 - Sōka Gakkai gains in the third local government elections.
 * 1966 - Nissan start selling the new brand Nissan Sunny.
 * 1974 - Completion of Akasaka Palace refitting.

Births
 * 1899 - Minoru Shirota (d. 1982), physician and microbiologist, invented Yakult
 * 1957 - Kenji Kawai, composer and conductor
 * 1970 - Sadao Abe, actor and singer

Deaths
 * 1966 - George Ohsawa (b. 1893), founder of the Macrobiotic diet