Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/January/January 18

January 18:

Births
 * 885 - Emperor Daigo (d. 930)
 * 1868 - Kantarō Suzuki (d. 1948), admiral and politician, 42nd Prime Minister of Japan
 * 1879 - Tane Ikai (d. 1995), super-centenarian
 * 1921 - Yoichiro Nambu (d. 2015), Japanese-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1944 - Kei Ogura, singer-songwriter and composer
 * 1947 - Sachio Kinugasa, baseball player and journalist
 * 1947  - Takeshi Kitano, actor and director
 * 1966 - Kazufumi Miyazawa, singer
 * 1973 - Shinobu Nakayama, actress and singer
 * 1979 - Hirofumi Arai, Japanese-Korean actor
 * 1984 - Makoto Hasebe, footballer
 * 1986 - Ikusaburo Yamazaki, actor and singer

Film and television
 * 2002 - Kisarazu Cat's Eye begins airing on Tokyo Broadcasting System, starring Junichi Okada, Sho Sakurai, Yoshinori Okada, Ryuta Sato, and Takashi Tsukamoto