Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/May/May 12

May 12:

Events
 * 1934 - The first radio overseas coverage occurred (ten times of the Far East Championship competition of Manila).
 * 1939 - Japan and Soviet Union battle in Manchuria and the Mongolian border in Nomonhan which started the Nomonhan Incident.
 * 1948 - The Ministry of Health and Welfare distribute the "Mother's Pocketbook" based on the Child Welfare Act. It handed to pregnant women municipality, maternal health, and the baby's developmental state, distribution of milk, and filling out the vaccination collectively. It later became the "Mother and Child Health Handbook" in 1965.
 * 1980 - "Mother" is the death of the post-war half-breed. Director Miki Sawada died at the Elizabeth Sanders Home that was known as the "Mother" and was born in the post-war turmoil half-breed in Spain. From 1948, an investment of private property and embarked on a half-breed rescue, about 2,000 people left home.
 * 1984 - NHK satellite broadcasting begins, it became a clear image even in the Ogasawara Islands.

Births
 * 1401 - Emperor Shōkō (d. 1428)
 * 1904 - Eiji Nakano (d. 1990), actor
 * 1956 - Kimiko Yo, actress
 * 1978 - Aya Ishiguro, singer and fashion designer
 * 1981 - Kentaro Sato, Japanese-American composer and conductor
 * 1983 - Yujiro Kushida, wrestler and mixed martial artist

Film and television
 * 2008 - Change begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Takuya Kimura and Eri Fukatsu