Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/July/July 12

July 12:

Events
 * 1918 - Japanese Imperial Navy battle ship Kawachi blew up at Shunan, western Honshu, Japan, killing at least 621.

Births
 * 1394 - Ashikaga Yoshinori (d. 1441), shogun
 * 1909 - Motoichi Kumagai (d. 2010), photographer and illustrator
 * 1966 - Taiji (d. 2011), bass player and songwriter
 * 1966  - Misato Watanabe, singer
 * 1971 - Kristi Yamaguchi, Japanese-American figure skater
 * 1979 - Maya Kobayashi, journalist
 * 1983 - Megumi Kawamura, volleyball player
 * 1984 - Yoshino Nanjō, voice actress and singer
 * 1988 - Risa Taneda, voice actress
 * 1992 - Anna Ishibashi, model and actress
 * 1994 - Kanako Momota, singer-songwriter

Deaths
 * 1441 - Ashikaga Yoshinori (b. 1394), shogun
 * 1966 - Daisetsu Teitaro Suzuki (d. 1870), author of books and essays on Buddhism, Zen, and Shin

Film and television
 * 2011 - Ariadne no Dangan begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Atsushi Itō, Tōru Nakamura, Katsunori Takahashi, and Manami Konishi