Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/July/July 23

July 23:

Events
 * 1999 - ANA Flight 61 is hijacked in Tokyo.

Births
 * 1938 - Mickey Curtis, actor, singer, and television personality
 * 1962 - Hiroshi Mikami, actor
 * 1986 - Ayaka Komatsu, model and actress

Deaths
 * 1990 - Kenjiro Takayanagi (b. 1899), engineer
 * 1997 - Chuhei Nambu (b. 1904), long jumper