Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/January/January 27

January 27:

Events
 * 1868 - The Battle of Toba–Fushimi begins. (Traditional Japanese Date: Third Day of the First Month, 1868)
 * 1885 - The first ship of Japanese immigrants headed for Hawaii leaves Yokohama harbor.
 * 1970 - The first Japan airliner is allowed to fly over Siberia, cutting the flight time to Europe by two hours.
 * 1983 - The Seikan Tunnel, a 53.9 kilometer tunnel connecting the main island of Honshū with Hokkaidō, is completed. It opens in March.
 * 1993 - Miyazawa Rie announces that she is breaking off her engagement to Sumō wrestler Takanohana.
 * 1993 - Akebono becomes the first non-Japanese sumō wrestler to reach the rank of Yokozuna, and Takanohana becomes the youngest wrestler to be promoted to Ōzeki.

Births
 * 1827 - Nakahama Manjirō (d. 1898), translator
 * 1848 - Tōgō Heihachirō (d. 1934), admiral
 * 1885 - Seison Maeda (d. 1977), painter
 * 1920 - Hiroyoshi Nishizawa (d. 1944), flying ace
 * 1942 - Maki Asakawa (d. 2010), singer and composer
 * 1954 - Jōkō Ninomiya, Japanese-American martial artist
 * 1955 - Koji Ushikubo, race car driver
 * 1966 - Tamlyn Tomita, Japanese-American actress and singer
 * 1969 - Cornelius, singer, guitarist, and producer
 * 1979 - Akiko Hinagata, actress and model

Deaths
 * 1490 - Ashikaga Yoshimasa (b. 1435), shogun