Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/May/May 7

May 7:

Events
 * 1875 - Japan and Russia signed the Sakhalin Metropolitan Kuril exchange treaty.
 * 1888 - The first Japanese Ph.D. is born.
 * 1969 - The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo opened.
 * 1999 - The administrative agency document, Freedom of Information Act, established. It enforced in April 2001.

Births
 * 1911 - Ishirō Honda (d. 1993), director, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1941 - Kinichi Hagimoto, comedian
 * 1965 - Takaya Kamikawa, actor
 * 1987 - Asami Konno, singer
 * 1990 - Kimito Totani, actor
 * 1999 - Masaki Sato, singer and actress