Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/March/March 21

March 21:

Events
 * 1907 - The grade school law is revised to provide for six years of mandatory schooling.
 * 1934 - A large fire engulfs Hakodate in Hokkaidō, killing 650.
 * 1951 - Japan's first color film, Carmen Returns Home, directed by Keisuke Kinoshita, is shown in Japan.
 * 1972 - The Takamatsuzuka Tomb wall paintings are discovered in Asuka-mura, Nara Prefecture.

Births
 * 1931 - Toyonobori (d. 1998), sumo wrestler
 * 1944 - Hideki Ishima, guitarist
 * 1946 - Joseph Mitsuaki Takami, cardinal
 * 1951 - Koichi Iwaki, Japanese-Korean actor
 * 1959 - Nobuo Uematsu, keyboard player and composer
 * 1970 - Shiho Niiyama (d. 2000), voice actress
 * 1989 - Takeru Satoh, actor
 * 1992 - Erena Mizusawa, model and actress

Film and television
 * 2014 - Kamisama no Karute 2, a film starring Sho Sakurai, Aoi Miyazaki, and Tatsuya Fujiwara