Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/May/May 5

May 5:

Events
 * 1945 - World War II: Six people are killed when a Japanese fire balloon explodes near Bly, Oregon. They are the only Americans killed in the continental US during the war.
 * 1946 - The International Military Tribunal for the Far East begins in Tokyo with twenty-eight Japanese military and government officials accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Births
 * 867 - Emperor Uda (d. 931)
 * 1947 - Daisuke Ban, actor
 * 1947  - Sansho Shinsui, actor
 * 1961 - Hiroshi Hase, wrestler and politician
 * 1962 - Kaoru Wada, composer and conductor
 * 1964 - Minami Takayama, voice actress and singer
 * 1967 - Takehito Koyasu, voice actor and singer
 * 1968 - Atsuro Watabe, actor
 * 1974 - Seiji Ara, race car driver
 * 1985 - Shoko Nakagawa, actress and singer
 * 1992 - Yōsuke Mikami, footballer
 * 1992  - Taisuke Miyazaki, footballer