Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/January/January 24

1336 - Ashikaga Takauji defeats Nitta Yoshisada at Hakone. (Traditional Japanese Date: Eleventh Day of the Twelfth Month, 1335)
1946 - The General Headquarters (GHQ) abolishes licensed prostitution.
1969 - The governor of Tokyo, Minobe Ryōkichi announces the end of public sponsored gambling.
1971 - The popular band Group sounds band The Tigers perform their last concert.
1972 - Two hunters discover Yokoi Shōichi, a former lieutenant in the Japanese army who lived in a cave in Guam for 28 years after the end of World War II. Upon his return to Japan on February 2, he proclaimed, "it is with much shame that I return."
1990 - Japan successfully launches an experimental satellite, the Hiten.