Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/October/October 15

October 15:

Events
 * 1904 - The Russian Baltic Fleet leaves Reval, Estonia for Port Arthur during the Russo-Japanese War.

Births
 * 1910 - Edwin O. Reischauer (d. 1990), Japanese-American scholar, diplomat, and educator, United States Ambassador to Japan
 * 1958 - Masako Katsuki, voice actress
 * 1977 - Masato Kawabata, race car driver
 * 1978 - Takeshi Morishima, wrestler
 * 1982 - Yōko Maki, actress
 * 1982  - Sachiko Yamada, swimmer
 * 1990 - Kiko Mizuhara, American-Japanese model, actress, and singer

Film and television
 * 2007 - Galileo begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Kō Shibasaki and Masaharu Fukuyama