Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/January/January 24

January 24:

Events
 * 1336 - Ashikaga Takauji defeats Nitta Yoshisada at Hakone. (Traditional Japanese Date: Eleventh Day of the Twelfth Month, 1335)
 * 1946 - The General Headquarters abolishes licensed prostitution.
 * 1969 - The governor of Tokyo, Minobe Ryōkichi announces the end of public sponsored gambling.
 * 1971 - The popular band Group sounds band The Tigers perform their last concert.
 * 1972 - Two hunters discover Yokoi Shōichi, a former lieutenant in the Japanese army who lived in a cave in Guam for 28 years after the end of World War II. Upon his return to Japan on February 2, he proclaimed, "it is with much shame that I return."
 * 1990 - Japan successfully launches an experimental satellite, the Hiten.

Births
 * 1936 - Yōko Nogiwa, actress
 * 1947 - Michio Kaku, Japanese-American physicist and academic
 * 1947  - Masashi Ozaki, baseball player and golfer
 * 1959 - Akira Maeda, wrestler, mixed martial artist, and actor
 * 1963 - Houka Kinoshita, actor
 * 1972 - Naoshi Mizuta, bass player and composer
 * 1977 - Kensuke Kita, singer and guitarist
 * 1985 - Yuki Ito, actor and musician
 * 1990 - Mao Abe, singer-songwriter
 * 1995 - Yū Wakui, Japanese voice actor

Deaths
 * 1973 - Masao Ohba (b. 1949), boxer