Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/February/February 17
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- 1592 - Toyotomi Hideyoshi orders up his troops for an invasion of Korea. (Traditional Japanese Date: Fifth Day of the First Month, 1592)
- 1904 - First performance of Madame Butterfly.
- 1906 - The Bungei Kyōkai (Literary Society) is formed by Tsubouchi Shōyō and Shimamura Hōgetsu, and Ōsumi Shigenobu is appointed as its head. Three years later a drama research institute for the training of actors is formed, and in May 1911, graduates of the research institute stage their first performance of Hamlet at the Imperial Theater.
- 1937 - A failed plot is exposed by a group of five would-be Nichiren martyrs, known as the Shinau Dan (the "Let's die Group"), who were planning to commit ritualistic suicide in front of the Imperial Palace and the Diet.
- 1970 - The Sanrizuka Boys Action Squad is formed to protest the construction of Narita Airport.
- 1972 - Japanese Red Army leader Nagata Yōko and others are arrested in Gunma Prefecture and it is discovered that they were responsible for over 14 lynchings.
- 1977 - The Mito District Court rules that the Japan Self Defense Forces are constitutional.
- 1978 - Bob Dylan visits Japan for the first time.
