Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/February/February 12
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- 754 - Buddhist priest Ganjin arrives from China. (Traditional Japanese Date: Sixteenth Day of the First Month, 754)
- 890 - The Buddhist monk Henjō dies. Henjō was famous for the following poem from the Hyakunin Isshu:
Oh stormy winds, bring up the clouds
And paint the heavens grey;
Lest these fair maids of form divine
Should angel wings display,
And fly far far away.
(Traditional Japanese Date: Nineteenth Day of the First Month, 890)
- 1868 - Okubo Toshimichi proposes to the new Meiji government that the emperor be relocated to Osaka. (Traditional Japanese Date: Nineteenth Day of the First Month, 1868)
- 1921 - Members of the Ōmotokyō religious sect (a form of Shintoism) are arrested in the first of two crackdowns against the religion.
- 1949 - The Tokyo Stock Exchange is founded. The Osaka Stock Exchange is founded three days later on February 15, 1949.
- 1984 - Uemura Naomi completes a winter solo climb to the top of Mt. McKinley. However, he disappeared on the climb down and was never heard from again.
