Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/June/June 6

June 6:

Events
 * 1930 - Japan's first women's apartment is built in Ōtsuka, Tōkyō.
 * 1965 - The Japan Soccer League is established.
 * 1979 - The practice of nengō, or eras, as a system for counting years is codified for the first time.
 * 1995 - Shōkō Asahara and 6 others are put on trial for murder in connection with the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.

Births
 * 1829 - Honinbo Shusaku (d. 1862), Go player
 * 1925 - Hideji Ōtaki (d. 2012), actor
 * 1938 - Ryuchi Matsuda (d. 2013), martial artist and author
 * 1951 - Noritake Takahara, race car driver
 * 1952 - Yukihiro Takahashi, drummer, producer, and actor
 * 1953 - June Yamagishi, guitarist
 * 1965 - Megumi Ogata, voice actress and singer
 * 1986 - Junichi Tazawa, Japanese-American baseball player
 * 1992 - Megumi Murakami, singer and actress

Film and television
 * 2000 - Aikotoba wa Yūki begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Kōji Yakusho
 * 2015 - Pieta in the Toilet, a youth drama film starring Yojiro Noda and Hana Sugisaki