Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/February/February 4

1348 - Kusanoki Masatsura commits suicide at the battle of Shijōnawate. (Traditional Japanese Date: Fifth Day of the First Month, 1348)
1614 - Shimazu Iehisa of the Satsuma-han presents Japan's first gunship to the Shōgun (Traditional Japanese Date: Twenty-sixth Day of the Twelfth Month, 1613)
1801 - Inō Tadataka presents the Shōgun with Japan's first surveyed map. (Traditional Japanese Date: Twenty-first Day of the Twelfth Month, 1800)
1860 - The ship Kanrin Maru leaves Shinagawa for the United States. (Traditional Japanese Date: Thirteenth Day of the First Month, 1860)
1869 - Lotteries are outlawed by the new Meiji government. (Traditional Japanese Date: Twenty-third Day of the Twelfth Month, 1868)
1872 - Japan's first court of law, the Tokyo Court, is established. (Traditional Japanese Date: Twenty-sixth Day of the Twelfth Month, 1871)
1959 - One tsubo of land in Ginza (approximately 3.3 square meters) sells for 1,560,000 yen (approximately $4,300 at the then applicable exchange rate or approximately $30,500 in today's money), becoming the most expensive land in Japan.
1966 - An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 crahes in Tokyo Bay, killing all 133 people on board.
1976 - It is disclosed in a Senate hearing that the Lockheed Corporation had bribed government officials in Japan in order to secure aircraft.