Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/July/July 25

July 25:

Events
 * 1869 - The daimyō begin returning their land holdings to the emperor as part of the Meiji Restoration reforms. (Traditional Japanese Date: June 17, 1869).
 * 1894 - The First Sino-Japanese War begins when the Japanese fire upon a Chinese warship.
 * 1907 - Korea becomes a protectorate of Japan.
 * 1908 - Ajinomoto is founded. Kikunae Ikeda of the Tokyo Imperial University discovers that a key ingredient in Konbu soup stock is monosodium glutamate (MSG), and patents a process for manufacturing it.

Births
 * 1562 - Katō Kiyomasa (d. 1611), warlord
 * 1974 - Kenzo Suzuki, wrestler
 * 1981 - Yūichi Komano, footballer

Film and television
 * 2015 - Tōkyō Mukokuseki Shōjo, a suspense thriller film starring Nana Seino, Nobuaki Kaneko, and Lily