Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/January/January 29
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- 1879 - Japan enters into an international telecommunications treaty.
- 1934 - The Japan Iron & Steel Co., Ltd. is formed from the merger of Hachiman Steel and several other privately owned companies.
- 1944 - Editors of Reform magazine and Central Review magazine are arrested in a wartime crackdown against liberal intellectuals known as the Yokohama Incident.
- 1957 - The Shōwa Base is established at the South Pole.
- 1961 - Mokkan (inscribed wooden slabs) are excavated at the site of the former capital Heijōkyō in Nara.
- 1968 - A strike at the faculty of medicine marks the beginning of a period of demonstrations and unrest at Tokyo University.
