Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/March/March 14

1871 - Postal service is established among Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka. (Traditional Japanese Date: Twenty-fourth Day of the First Month, 1871)
1873 - Marriage between Japanese and non-Japanese is permitted for the first time.
1970 - World Expo '70 opens in [Osaka]] with 77 countries participating. Among the exhibits were moon rocks from the United States and the Soviet Union.
1985 - The Tōhoku and Jōetsu Shinkansen (bullet train) begins service as the first train leaves Ueno Station.
1991 - A girder falls at the construction site of an overhead tram line, killing 14 people.
1992 - The Nozomi (a bullet train) makes its debut on the Tōkaidō line. The increased speed of the new train shaves 30 minutes off of the trip from Tokyo to [Osaka]], shortening it to 2 1/2 hours.

March 14 is also White Day.