Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/December/December 13

December 13:

Events
 * 1937 - Second Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Nanking - The city of Nanjing, defended by the National Revolutionary Army under the command of General Tang Shengzhi, falls to the Japanese. This is followed by the Nanking Massacre, in which Japanese troops rape and murder hundreds of thousands of civilians.

Births
 * 1944 - Hwang Jang-lee, Japanese-South Korean martial artist and actor
 * 1958 - Kanako Higuchi, actress
 * 1964 - hide, musician, singer and songwriter
 * 1978 - Ryo Kawakita, singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1980 - Satoshi Tsumabuki, actor and singer
 * 1982 - Eita, actor
 * 1982  - Ayumi Kinoshita, actress and model
 * 1982  - Koutaro Tanaka, actor
 * 1989 - Mari Okamoto, entertainer
 * 1991 - Nonoka Ono, entertainer and model
 * 1993 - Jurian Beat Crisis, singer
 * 1994 - Leo Ieiri, singer-songwriter

Deaths
 * 2010 - Takeshi Watabe (b. 1936), voice actor
 * 2014 - Taitetsu Unno (b. 1929), scholar and author