Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/January/January 25

1660 - The first bridge to span the Sumida River in Tokyo, the Ryōgoku Bridge, is built so as to give people a means of escape from fires. (Traditional Japanese Date: Thirteenth Day of the Twelfth Month, 1659)
1683 - Yaoya Oshichi sets fire to her home in the hopes of being able to meet a young priest with whom she fell in love while seeking shelter from a previous fire. The fire destroyed a large section of Edo (present day Tokyo). Oshichi was later caught and punished for her crime by being burned at the stake. (Traditional Japanese Date: Twenty-eighth Day of the Twelfth Month, 1682)
1879 - Japan's popular daily, Asahi Shimbun, begins printing.
1936 - Yokoyama Ryūichi's Edokko Kenchan, a precursor to the popular comic Fukuchan, makes its first appearance in the Asahi Shimbun.
1970 - The director of Godzilla, Tsuburaya Eiji of Toho Studios, dies.
1979 - The 22.23 kilometer Daishimizu tunnel, connecting Minakami-machi, Gunma Prefecture and Yuzawa-machi, Niigata Prefecture, is completed.