Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/August/August 25

August 25:

Events
 * 1894 - Kitasato Shibasaburo discovers the infectious agent of the bubonic plague and publishes his findings in The Lancet.
 * 1942 - World War II: Battle of Milne Bay, Papua New Guinea.
 * 1942  - World War II: Second day of the Battle of the Eastern Solomons. A Japanese naval transport convoy headed towards Guadalcanal is turned-back by Allied air attack, losing one destroyer and one transport sunk, and one light cruiser heavily damaged.
 * 1989 - Mayumi Moriyama becomes Japan's first female cabinet secretary.

Births
 * 1916 - Saburō Sakai (d. 2000), lieutenant and pilot
 * 1956 - Takeshi Okada, footballer, coach, and manager
 * 1967 - Nobuyuki Hiyama, voice actor
 * 1968 - Yuri Mitsui, actress, model and race car driver
 * 1968  - Takeshi Ueda, singer-songwriter and bass player
 * 1977 - Masumi Asano, voice actress
 * 1979 - Masato Wada, actor and singer
 * 1992 - Miyabi Natsuyaki, singer and actress

Film and television
 * 2012 - Anata e, a film starring Ken Takakura, Yūko Tanaka, Koichi Sato, Hideji Otaki, Kimiko Yo, and Haruka Ayase