Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/February/February 14

1917 - A magazine for housewives, Shufu no Tomo, goes on sale for the first time. By 1941 it reached a circulation of 1,800,000.
1945 - Japan sets a record for the most snowfall with 785 centimeters of accumulation at Morimiyanohara Station in Nagano Prefecture.
1973 - The yen is allowed to trade freely against the dollar. Trading opens that 277 yen to the dollar after having been fixed at 308 yen to the dollar just the day before.
1992 - Sagawa Kyūbin's former president, Watanabe Hiroyasu, is arrested with 3 others in the Sagawa Kyūbin scandal.
1996 - Han'yū Yoshiharu becomes the first person to win seven straight crowns in Shōgi (Japanese chess.)