Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/October/October 18

October 18:

Births
 * 1127 - Emperor Go-Shirakawa (d. 1192)
 * 1850 - Basil Hall Chamberlain (d. 1935), British professor of Tokyo Imperial University
 * 1870 - D. T. Suzuki (d. 1966), author and scholar
 * 1887 - Takashi Sakai (d. 1946), general in the Imperial Japanese Army and Governor of Hong Kong
 * 1893 - George Ohsawa (d. 1966), philosopher and educator
 * 1945 - Norio Wakamoto, voice actor
 * 1954 - Yūji Mitsuya, actor, voice actor, and audio supervisor
 * 1955 - Hiromi Go, singer
 * 1958 - Megumi Ishii, actress and politician
 * 1970 - Kazuhisa Irii, footballer
 * 1970  - Michihiro Morita, Go player
 * 1972 - Mika Ninagawa, photographer
 * 1974 - Noboru Kaneko, actor
 * 1979 - Hikaru Kawamura, model
 * 1985 - Iori Nomizu, voice actor
 * 1989 - Riisa Naka, actress

Deaths
 * 1561 - Yamamoto Kansuke (b. 1501), samurai
 * 1886 - Philipp Franz von Siebold (b. 1796), German physician and botanist, first European to teach Western medicine in Japan
 * 1908 - Nozu Michitsura (b. 1840), field marshal
 * 1947 - Michiaki Kamada (b. 1890), vice admiral and war criminal
 * 1956 - Yoshio Markino (b. 1869), artist and author
 * 1961 - Tsuru Aoki (b. 1892), Japanese-American actress

Film and television
 * 2010 - Nagareboshi begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Yutaka Takenouchi and Aya Ueto
 * 2011 - Nazotoki wa Dinner no Ato de begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Sho Sakurai and Keiko Kitagawa

Holidays, observances, and anniversaries
 * 1881 - The Liberal Party of Japan is founded