Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/June/June 4

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June 4:

  • 1615 - Osaka castle falls to Tokugawa Ieyasu following a long siege (the Siege of Osaka). (Traditional Japanese date: Eighth Day of the Fifth Month in the First Year of Genna (1615))
  • 1858 - Ii Naosuke is appointed Tairō, or great elder.
  • 1879 - The "Tōkyō Shōkonsha" (東京招魂社?) changes its name to Yasukuni Shrine.
  • 1928 - Manchurian warloard Zhāng Zuòlín is assasinated by members of the Kwantung Army, a unit of the Imperial Japanese Army.
  • 1954 - Over 5,700 employees of Omikenshi Co., Ltd., an Osaka textile manufacturer, lead a strike demanding respect for civil rights, such as the right to marry freely, the right of privacy of correspondence and an end to forced conversion to Buddhism. The strike lasts over one hundred days and ends in a victory for the workers.