Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/July/July 20

July 20:

Events
 * 1946 - World War II: The US Congress's Pearl Harbor Committee says Franklin D. Roosevelt was completely blameless for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and calls for a unified command structure in the armed forces.
 * 1973 - Palestianian terrorists hijack a Japan Airlines jet en route from Amsterdam to Japan and force it down in Dubai.

Births
 * 682 - Taichō (d. 767), Buddhist monk
 * 1937 - Ken Ogata (d. 2008), actor
 * 1952 - Keiko Matsuzaka, actress
 * 1956 - Ryo Ishibashi, actor
 * 1977 - Alessandro Santos, Brazilian-Japanese footballer
 * 1987 - Kōsuke Kujirai, actor and singer

Deaths
 * 1156 - Emperor Toba (b. 1103)
 * 2005 - Kayo Hatta (b. 1958), Japanese-American film director