Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/May/May 18

May 18:

Events
 * 1870 - Telegrams started between Tokyo and Yokohama. (Japanese Date: Eighteenth Day of the Fourth Month, 1870)
 * 1899 - The Bangkok Peace Conference is first held in the Hague.
 * 1936 - In a crime that shocked Japan, Sada Abe strangled her lover Kichizo Ishida, cut off his genitals, and carried them around with her for several days until her arrest.
 * 1984 - Nationality Act Amendment is established.

Births
 * 1904 - Shunryū Suzuki (d. 1971), Japanese-American monk and educator
 * 1947 - Akira Terao, singer and actor
 * 1956 - Naomichi Ozaki, golfer
 * 1971 - Nobuteru Taniguchi, race car driver
 * 1988 - Kōji Seto, actor and singer
 * 1990 - Yuya Osako, footballer

Film and television
 * 2012 - The Complex, a horror film starring Atsuko Maeda and Hiroki Narimiya