Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/October/October 12

October 12:

Events
 * 1942 - World War II: The Battle of Cape Esperance concludes, resulting in a victory over Japan for the United States
 * 1983 - Former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka is convicted of accepting bribes as part of the Lockheed bribery scandals

Births
 * 1008 - Emperor Go-Ichijō (d. 1036)
 * 1891 - Fumimaro Konoe (d. 1945), politician, founded Taisei Yokusankai, 34th Prime Minister of Japan
 * 1950 - Takeshi Kaga, actor
 * 1960 - Hiroyuki Sanada, actor
 * 1963 - Hideki Fujisawa, musician
 * 1963  - Satoshi Kon (d. 2010), animator and screenwriter
 * 1970 - Origa (d. 2015), Russian-Japanese singer
 * 1979 - Rie Tomosaka, actress and singer
 * 1989 - Anna Ohmiya, curler
 * 1995 - Karin Ogino, model and actress

Deaths
 * 1590 - Kanō Eitoku (b. 1543), painter
 * 1632 - Kutsuki Mototsuna (b. 1549), commander
 * 1858 - Hiroshige (b. 1797), painter
 * 1960 - Inejiro Asanuma (b. 1898), politician
 * 2007 - Kisho Kurokawa (b. 1934), architect, designed the Nakagin Capsule Tower

Film and television
 * 2007 - Mop Girl begins airing on TV Asahi, starring Keiko Kitagawa
 * 2010 - Second Virgin begins airing on NHK, starring Kyōka Suzuki, Kyoko Fukada, Hiroki Hasegawa, You, and Gō Ayano
 * 2015 - 5-ji Kara 9-ji Made: Watashi ni Koi Shita Obōsan begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Satomi Ishihara and Tomohisa Yamashita

Holidays, observances, and anniversaries
 * 1887 - Yamaha Corporation is founded
 * 1940 - Taisei Yokusankai, a para-fascist organization, is organized
 * 2004 - Satsumasendai, Kagoshima is founded with the merger of several towns and villages with the city of Sendai, Kagoshima