Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/April/April 4

April 4:

Events
 * 1879 - The Ryūkyū Clan is abolished and Okinawa is born.
 * 1890 - Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, known in Japan as Koizumi Yakumo after gaining Japanese citizenship, first arrives in Japan.
 * 1899 - The Tokyo University of Foreign Studies is founded.
 * 1905 - The Waseda Baseball Club travels abroad for the first time.
 * 1978 - The female singing trio known as Candies play their final concert at the Kōrakuen Stadium.

Births
 * 1884 - Isoroku Yamamoto (d. 1943), admiral
 * 1946 - Katsuaki Satō, martial artist and coach
 * 1957 - Nobuyoshi Kuwano, singer and trumpet player
 * 1974 - Shōei, actor
 * 1990 - Yūki Mihara, model
 * 1991 - Yui Koike, model and actress
 * 1994 - Shunsuke Nishikawa, actor
 * 1994  - Risako Sugaya, singer and actress
 * 1999 - Miki Nishino, singer, dancer, and actress

Film and television
 * 1983 - Oshin begins airing on NHK, starring Ayako Kobayashi, Yūko Tanaka, Nobuko Otowa, Pinko Izumi, Shiro Itō, Masatoshi Nakamura, and Tsunehiko Watase