Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/January/January 28

January 28:

Events
 * 935 - Provincial governor Ki no Tsurayuki begins writing the Tosa Diary, describing his return to Kyōto. (Traditional Japanese Date: Twenty-first Day of the Twelfth Month, 934)
 * 1618 - Rules are established for the Ōoku, the section of Edo Castle that housed the Shōgun's consort and his concubines. (Traditional Japanese Date: Second Day of the First Month, 1618)
 * 1856 - The port of Shimoda is opened per Japan's first treaty of amity with Russia. (Traditional Japanese Date: Twenty-first Day of the Twelfth Month, 1855)
 * 1871 - Japan's first Japanese language daily newspaper, the Yokohama Mainichi Shinbun, is printed in Yokohama. (Traditional Japanese Date: Eighth Day of the Twelfth Month, 1870)
 * 1912 - Lieutenant Nobu Shirase and 27 others reach a point at the South Pole 80 degrees 5' south and 156 degrees 37'. They name it Yamato Sekihara.
 * 1932 - Japanese forces attack Chinese forces at Shanghai in what is known as the First Shanghai Incident.
 * 1946 - The General Headquarters begins censoring movies.

Births
 * 1712 - Tokugawa Ieshige (d. 1761), shogun
 * 1886 - Hidetsugu Yagi (d. 1976), engineer and academic
 * 1927 - Hiroshi Teshigahara (d. 2001), director, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1952 - Tomokazu Miura, actor
 * 1954 - Kaneto Shiozawa (d. 2000), voice actor
 * 1966 - Seiji Mizushima, director and producer
 * 1975 - Hiroshi Kamiya, voice actor and singer
 * 1976 - Emiko Kado (d. 1999), wrestler
 * 1977 - Takuma Sato, race car driver
 * 1980 - Yasuhito Endō, footballer
 * 1981 - Gen Hoshino, singer-songwriter, lyricist, actor, and voice actor
 * 1988 - Seiya Sanada, wrestler

Deaths
 * 1986 - Ellison Onizuka (b. 1946), Japanese-American engineer and astronaut