Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/August/August 24

August 24:

Events
 * 1942 - World War II: The Battle of the Eastern Solomons. Japanese aircraft carrier Ryūjō is sunk and US carrier Enterprise heavily damaged.

Births
 * 1960 - Takashi Miike, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1963 - Hideo Kojima, director and producer
 * 1968 - Shoichi Funaki, Japanese-American wrestler
 * 1987 - Daichi Miura, singer-songwriter, dancer, and choreographer
 * 1988 - Maya Yoshida, footballer

Deaths
 * 1956 - Kenji Mizoguchi (b. 1898), director and screenwriter
 * 2010 - Satoshi Kon (b. 1963), director and screenwriter

Film and television
 * 2013 - Gatchaman, a tokusatsu film starring Tori Matsuzaka, Gō Ayano, Ayame Goriki, Tatsuomi Hamada, and Ryohei Suzuki