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June 20:

Events
 * 1703 - The Love Suicides at Sonezaki is first staged.
 * 1899 - The first Japanese-made film is screened at the Kabuki-za.
 * 1933 - Japan's first dominant marriage agency is established in Tokyo. It is opened in Shirokiya in order to eliminate the tragedy arising from an inadvertent marriage.
 * 1958 - A peace march to appeal the ban of atomic and hydrogen bombs, started between Tokyo and Hiroshima from 1,000 km.
 * 1991 - Tōhoku Shinkansen is opened between Ueno and Tokyo. With a city center section of 3.6 km, it led from Morioka to contact Tokyo Station to Hakata.

Births
 * 1737 - Tokugawa Ieharu (d. 1786), shogun
 * 1983 - Masashi Mikami, actor
 * 1985 - Saki Aibu, actress
 * 1999 - Yui Mizuno, singer