Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/March/March 18

1207 - The Buddhist monk Hōnen is exiled to Tosa and Shinran is exiled to Echigo. (Traditional Japanese Date: Eighteenth Day of the Second Month, 1207)
1860 - A delegation sent to the United States by the Shogunate arrives in San Francisco aboard the Kanrinmaru. (Traditional Japanese Date: : Twenty-sixth Day of the Second Month, 1860)
1881 - The Asian Liberal Newspaper is founded, featuring the writings of Nakae Chōmin.
1904 - Horse drawn trains disappear forever with the completion of an electric train line between Ueno and Asakusa. This completed a line that already extended from Shinagawa to Shinbashi and from Shinbashi to Ueno.
1931 - Japan's first domestically produced aircraft is completed at the Nakajima Aircraft Factory.
1932 - The Women's Society for National Defense is formed in Osaka.
1946 - Sixty-three women become Japan's first female police officers.
1964 - The first electronic calculators go on sale in Japan. They were manufactured by Sharp and Sony and cost 500,000 yen each!
1965 - Meiji Mura opens in Aichi Prefecture.
1984 - The president of Glico is kidnapped and held for 1 billion yen ransom by a man who referred to himself as the "man of 20 faces." The perpetrator was never caught and the statute of limitations expired in 1994.
1984 - Itō Midori wins the World Figure Skating Championship in Paris.