Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/November/November 1

November 1:

Events
 * 1943 - World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.

Births
 * 1852 - Honinbo Shuei (d. 1907), Go player
 * 1886 - Sakutarō Hagiwara (d. 1942), poet and critic
 * 1931 - Chosuke Ikariya (d. 2004), bass player and actor
 * 1931  - Shunsuke Kikuchi, composer
 * 1936 - Katsuhisa Hattori, composer and conductor
 * 1936  - Shizuka Kamei, politician
 * 1946 - Yuko Shimizu, designer
 * 1959 - Eriko Hara, voice actress
 * 1971 - Metal Yoshida, actor and musician
 * 1983 - Yuko Ogura, model and singer
 * 1988 - Ai Fukuhara, table tennis player
 * 1988  - Masahiro Tanaka, baseball player

Film and television
 * 2014 - Clover, a film starring Emi Takei, Tadayoshi Okura, Kento Nagayama, Natsuna Watanabe, and Haruka Kinami

Holidays, observances, and anniversaries
 * 1957 - TV Asahi is founded