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March 26:

Events
 * 1796 - Japan's first Dutch-Japanese dictionary is published. (Traditional Japanese Date: Eighteenth Day of the Second Month, 1796)
 * 1914 - Kachusha, a wartime song about a girl longing for her beloved, who is away on military service, is performed at the Imperial Garden Theater for the first time.
 * 1945 - The Battle of Okinawa, where 230,000 lose their lives, begins.
 * 1978 - Radical protestors break into the control tower at Narita Airport.

Births
 * 1914 - Toru Kumon (d. 1995), mathematician and academic
 * 1948 - Ayumi Ishida, singer and actress
 * 1954 - Kazuhiko Inoue, voice actor and singer
 * 1963 - Natsuhiko Kyogoku, author
 * 1974 - Kumiko Goto, singer and actress
 * 1979 - Hiromi Uehara, pianist and composer
 * 1980 - Ryouhei Abe, actor
 * 1981 - Ai Shimizu, voice actress and wrestler
 * 1987 - Yui, singer-songwriter and actress
 * 1990 - Yuya Takaki, singer and actor
 * 1990  - Yūya Yagira, actor
 * 1994 - Mayu Watanabe, singer and actress