Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/June/June 15

June 15:

Births
 * 1763 - Kobayashi Issa (d. 1827), priest and poet
 * 1881 - Kesago Nakajima (d. 1945), lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army
 * 1926 - Shigeru Kayano (d. 2006), activist
 * 1961 - Yoshimi Iwasaki, singer and actress
 * 1967 - Yūji Ueda, voice actor and singer
 * 1981 - Yuki Kubota, model and actor
 * 1988 - Miku Ishida, singer and actress
 * 1990 - Miwa, singer-songwriter
 * 1991 - Rina Takeda, actress and black belt
 * 1993 - Kanna Arihara, singer
 * 1994 - Rina Hidaka, voice actress