Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/January/January 29

January 29:

Events
 * 1879 - Japan enters into an international telecommunications treaty.
 * 1934 - The Japan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. is formed from the merger of Hachiman Steel and several other privately owned companies.
 * 1940 - Three trains on the Sakurajima Line, in Osaka collide and explode while approaching Ajikawaguchi station. 181 people are killed.
 * 1944 - Editors of Reform magazine and Central Review magazine are arrested in a wartime crackdown against liberal intellectuals known as the Yokohama Incident.
 * 1957 - The Shōwa Base is established at the South Pole.
 * 1961 - Mokkan (inscribed wooden slabs) are excavated at the site of the former capital Heijōkyō in Nara.
 * 1968 - A strike at the faculty of medicine marks the beginning of a period of demonstrations and unrest at Tokyo University.

Births
 * 1938 - Shuji Tsurumi, gymnast
 * 1940 - Kunimitsu Takahashi, motorcycle racer and race car driver
 * 1954 - Yukinobu Hoshino, illustrator
 * 1969 - Hyde, singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor
 * 1981 - Ryūji Aoki, impressionist and singer
 * 1986 - Sotaro, Japanese-American actor and model
 * 1988 - Masaki Kaji, actor and singer
 * 1993 - Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, singer and model
 * 1994 - Ayane Sakura, voice actress
 * 1998 - Mion Mukaichi, singer and actress

Deaths
 * 1991 - Yasushi Inoue (b. 1907), author and poet