Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/January/January 19

January 19:

Events
 * 1942 - World War II: Japanese forces invade Burma.
 * 1946 - General Douglas MacArthur establishes the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo to try Japanese war criminals.

Births
 * 1874 - Hitachiyama Taniemon (d. 1922), sumo wrestler, the 19th Yokozuna
 * 1876 - Wakashima Gonshirō (d. 1943), sumo wrestler, the 21st Yokozuna
 * 1963 - Yutaka Matsushige, actor
 * 1970 - Udo Suzuki, comedian and singer
 * 1977 - Cocco, singer-songwriter
 * 1980 - Kotoko, singer
 * 1983 - Hikaru Utada, American-Japanese singer-songwriter and producer
 * 1985 - Rika Ishikawa, singer and actress
 * 1988 - Yusuke Yamamoto, actor
 * 1991 - Yu Takahashi, actress and model

Deaths
 * 1976 - Hidetsugu Yagi (b. 1886), engineer and academic

Film and television
 * 2003 - Good Luck!! begins airing on Tokyo Broadcasting System, starring Takuya Kimura and Kou Shibasaki
 * 2008 - Full Swing begins airing on NHK, starring Katsumi Takahashi
 * 2013 - Flashback Memories 3D, a 3D music documentary film starring Goma, Kosuke Tsuji, Kenta Tajika, and Kyoichi Shiin
 * 2013  - Tokyo Family, a drama film starring Isao Hashizume, Kazuko Yoshiyuki, Masahiko Nishimura, Tomoko Nakajima, and Satoshi Tsumabuki