Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/October/October 19

October 19:

Events
 * 1956 - The Soviet–Japanese Joint Declaration of 1956 is signed

Births
 * 1276 - Prince Hisaaki (d. 1328)
 * 1910 - Shunkichi Hamada (d. 2009), field hockey player
 * 1916 - Minoru Yasui (d. 1986), Japanese-American lawyer
 * 1931 - Atsushi Miyagi, tennis player
 * 1955 - LaSalle Ishii, television personality, actor, voice actor, and director
 * 1958 - Hiromi Hara, footballer
 * 1960 - Ayuo, Japanese-American composer, poet, lyricist, and singer
 * 1960  - Takeshi Koshida, footballer
 * 1967 - Yōji Matsuda, actor and voice actor
 * 1967  - Yoko Shimomura, pianist and composer
 * 1975 - Shian-Li Tsang, model
 * 1976 - Hiroshi Sakai, footballer
 * 1977 - Takamasa Suga, actor
 * 1979 - Sachiko Sugiyama, volleyball player
 * 1979  - Hiromi Yanagihara (d. 1999), singer and actress
 * 1984 - Saki Fujita, voice actress
 * 1985 - Erina Yamaguchi, model
 * 1987 - Tsunenori Aoki, actor
 * 1987  - Fumino Kimura, actress
 * 1989 - Rakuto Tochihara, actor
 * 1992 - Shiho, actress and model
 * 1994 - Kenta Suga, actor

Deaths
 * 1619 - Fujiwara Seika (b. 1561), philosopher

Film and television
 * 1974 - Castle of Sand, a police procedural film starring Tetsurō Tamba, Go Kato, and Kensaku Morita
 * 2010 - Freeter, Ie wo Kau begins airing on Fuji Television and Kyodo Television, starring Kazunari Ninomiya, Naoto Takenaka, Atsuko Asano, and Haruka Igawa