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June 11:

Events
 * 2000 - The Fukuoka Japan Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated

Births
 * 1662 - Tokugawa Ienobu (d. 1712), shogun
 * 1894 - Kiichiro Toyoda (d. 1952), businessman, founded Toyota
 * 1899 - Yasunari Kawabata (d. 1972), author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1910 - Jiang Wen-Ye (d. 1983), Taiwanese composer, active mainly in Japan and later in China
 * 1951 - Yasumasa Morimura, painter and photographer
 * 1976 - Gran Naniwa (d. 2010), wrestler
 * 1976  - Reiko Tosa, runner
 * 1977 - Mami Higashiyama, actress and singer
 * 1979 - Rino Nakasone Razalan, Japanese-American dancer and choreographer
 * 1983 - Atsushi Maruyama, actor
 * 1985 - Snow, singer
 * 1987 - TiA, singer
 * 1988 - Yui Aragaki, actress and singer
 * 1988  - Halca, musician
 * 1991 - Erica Tonooka, actress
 * 1996 - Ayaka Sasaki, singer

Deaths
 * 1911 - James Curtis Hepburn (b. 1815), American physician best known for creating the Hepburn romanization system
 * 1957 - Shigeyasu Suzuki (b. 1886), lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army
 * 2010 - Shunsuke Ikeda (b. 1940), actor and model

Holidays, observances, and anniversaries
 * 1983 - Game software developer and publisher Capcom is founded