Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/August/August 1

August 1:

Events
 * 607 - Ono no Imoko is dispatched as envoy to the Sui court in China (Traditional Japanese date: July 3, 607).
 * 1894 - The First Sino-Japanese War erupts between Japan and China over Korea.

Births
 * 1313 - Emperor Kōgon (d. 1364)
 * 1377 - Emperor Go-Komatsu (d. 1433)
 * 1933 - Masaichi Kaneda, baseball player and manager
 * 1959 - Yoshihide Ōtomo, guitarist and songwriter
 * 1963 - Koichi Wakata, astronaut and engineer
 * 1968 - Shigetoshi Hasegawa, baseball player
 * 1975 - Ryoko Yonekura, actress and model
 * 1977 - Yoshi Tatsu, wrestler and boxer
 * 1982 - Ai Tominaga, model and actress
 * 1987 - Rumi Hiiragi, actress
 * 1989 - Tomoka Kurokawa, actress
 * 1994 - Ayaka Wada, singer

Deaths
 * 1227 - Shimazu Tadahisa (b. 1179), warlord