Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/October/October 4

October 4:

Events
 * 1943 - World War II: U.S. captures the Solomon Islands from the Imperial Japanese Army

Births
 * 1918 - Kenichi Fukui (d. 1998), chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1922 - Shin Kyuk-Ho, South Korean-Japanese businessman, founded Lotte Group
 * 1959 - Hitonari Tsuji, writer, composer, and director
 * 1961 - Kazuki Takahashi, author and illustrator, created Yu-Gi-Oh!
 * 1963 - Koji Ishikawa, author and illustrator
 * 1967 - Tsuyoshi Koyama, actor and voice actor
 * 1978 - Kei Horie, actor, writer, producer, and director
 * 1981 - Shaura, singer
 * 1983 - Risa Kudō, model and actress
 * 1983  - Ai Maeda, actress, singer, and model
 * 1983  - Tatsuya Ueda, singer and actor
 * 1990  - Saki, musician and songwriter

Deaths
 * 1305 - Emperor Kameyama (b. 1249)
 * 1997 - Gunpei Yokoi (b. 1941), game designer, created Game Boy

Film and Television
 * 2003
 * Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon began airing on CBC, starring Miyuu Sawai, Rika Izumi, Keiko Kitagawa, Mew Azama, and Ayaka Komatsu
 * Fullmetal Alchemist began airing on TBS