Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/October/October 30

October 30:

Events
 * 1987 – In Japan, NEC releases the first 16-bit video game console, the PC Engine, which was later sold in other markets under the name TurboGrafx-16.

Births
 * 1218 - Emperor Chūkyō (d. 1234)
 * 1979 - Yukie Nakama, actress and singer
 * 1980 - Rich Alvarez, Filipino-Japanese basketball player
 * 1981 - Ayaka Kimura, singer and actress
 * 1986 - Keisuke Sohma, actor
 * 1996 - Mizuki Fukumura, singer and actress

Deaths
 * 1654 - Emperor Go-Kōmyō (b. 1633)
 * 2006 - Junji Kinoshita (b. 1914), playwright and scholar