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February 14:

Events
 * 1917 - A magazine for housewives, Shufu no Tomo, goes on sale for the first time. By 1941, it reached a circulation of 1,800,000.
 * 1942 – Battle of Pasir Panjang contributes to the fall of Singapore.
 * 1944 – World War II: Anti-Japanese revolt on Java.
 * 1945 - Japan sets a record for the most snowfall with 785 centimeters of accumulation at Mori-Miyanohara Station in Nagano Prefecture.
 * 1973 - The yen is allowed to trade freely against the dollar. Trading opens that 277 yen to the dollar after having been fixed at 308 yen to the dollar just the day before.
 * 1992 - Sagawa Kyūbin's former president, Watanabe Hiroyasu, is arrested with 3 others in the Sagawa Kyūbin scandal.
 * 1996 - Han'yū Yoshiharu becomes the first person to win seven straight crowns in Shōgi (Japanese chess.)

Births
 * 1916 - Masaki Kobayashi (d. 1996), director and producer
 * 1927 - Seizō Katō (d. 2014), voice actor
 * 1969 - Kazuko Miyata, actress
 * 1971 - Risa Hirako, model
 * 1971  - Noriko Sakai, singer and actress
 * 1972 - Hiroshi, comedian
 * 1973 - Yuka Sato, figure skater and sportscaster
 * 1980 - Sayaka Yamaguchi, actress
 * 1981 - Ayako Hamada, Mexican-Japanese wrestler
 * 1985 - Natsume Sano, model and actress