Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/March/March 13

March 13:

Events
 * 1933 - Japan's first ambulance is installed in the Yokohama Fire Department
 * 1983 - Japan's first in vitro fertilization is successfully implanted
 * 1988 - The Aomori-Hakodate Tunnel, connecting Honshū and Hokkaidō, begins operation. At the same time, the 80 year history of the Aomori-Hakodate ferry comes to a close

Births
 * 1815 - James Curtis Hepburn (d. 1911), American physician, linguist, and missionary, best known for creating the Hepburn romanization system
 * 1903 - Yasutaro Koide (d. 2016), super-centenarian
 * 1938 - Tochinoumi Teruyoshi, sumo wrestler, the 49th Yokozuna
 * 1968 - Akira Nogami, wrestler and actor
 * 1974 - Naho Toda, actress
 * 1982 - Jeremy Curl, Japanese-English explorer, author, and photographer
 * 1984 - Yūka Nanri, voice actress and singer
 * 1986 - Shunsuke Daito, actor
 * 1991 - Suzu Natsume, actress