Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/May/May 24

May 24:

Events
 * 670 - The Horyuji Temple burned down. (Japanese Date: Thirtieth Day of the Fourth Month, 670)
 * 905 - The imperial rescript of Kokin Wakashū compiled. (Japanese Date: Eighteenth Day of the Fourth Month, 905)
 * 1878 - The first impaired school in Japan opened in Kyoto.
 * 1900 - The Meiji government banned men and women of mixed bathing for more than twelve years of age.
 * 1903 - Kobe Golf Club perform its opening ceremony in Kobe and Rokko Mountain, which became Japan's first golf course.
 * 1926 - Tokachidake eruption killed 144 people. It caused a large explosion, which is located in the center of Hokkaido, such as Furano pioneer village in the muddy water jet which flowed instantly, and became a catastrophe of 144 dead.
 * 1942 - Professional baseball extended 28 times in Nagoya versus ocean warfare.
 * 1949 - A law is promulgated change people's age calculation from the traditional "Kazoedoshi Formula" to "How to Count the Full". By promulgation, infants born on December will be two years old in January, it can receive a distribution of sweets, and there was a defect such that reduced the distribution to be calculated sixty generations to reverse. A newspaper reported that "people became a rejuvenated thing".
 * 1955 - Emperor Hirohito watched his first sumo in Kokugikan.
 * 1956 - The Anti-Prostitution Act is promulgated.
 * 1960 - Large damage to the Sanriku region in the tsunami of the Chilean earthquake. 139 people are dead or missing during the disaster.

Births
 * 1942 - Ichirō Ozawa, lawyer and politician, Minister of Home Affairs
 * 1961 - Show Aikawa, actor
 * 1965 - Shinichirō Watanabe, director, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1974 - Masahide Kobayashi, baseball player and coach
 * 1981 - Sayaka Ando, model
 * 1985 - Kenjiro Yamashita, dancer and actor
 * 1991 - Erika Umeda, singer
 * 1994 - Daiya Seto, swimmer

Film and television
 * 1975 - G-Men '75 begins airing on Tokyo Broadcasting System, starring Tetsurō Tamba
 * 2014 - A Bolt from the Blue, a comedy-drama film starring Yo Oizumi, Kō Shibasaki, and Hitori Gekidan