Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/July/July 11

July 11:

Events
 * 1156 - Siege of Shirakawa-den
 * 1893 - The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.

Births
 * 1628 - Tokugawa Mitsukuni (d. 1701), daimyo
 * 1966 - Kentaro Miura, author and illustrator
 * 1971 - Leisha Hailey, Japanese-American singer-songwriter and actress
 * 1975 - Riona Hazuki, actress
 * 1982 - Ryoji Morimoto, actor
 * 1984 - Hitomi Hyuga, actress
 * 1984  - Hokuto "Hok" Konishi, Japanese-American dancer
 * 1985 - Aki Maeda, actress and singer
 * 1987 - Shigeaki Kato, musician
 * 1988 - Yuka Iguchi, voice actress

Deaths
 * 1991 - Hitoshi Igarashi (b. 1947), English-Japanese translator of The Satanic Verses

Film and television
 * 2011 - Full Throttle Girl begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Yui Aragaki and Ryo Nishikido
 * 2015 - Hatsumori Bemars begins airing on TV Tokyo, starring Nanase Nishino
 * 2015  - Tag, a suspense action horror film starring Reina Triendl, Mariko Shinoda, and Erina Mano