Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/March/March 26

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March 26:

  • 1796 - Japan's first Dutch-Japanese dictionary is published. (Traditional Japanese Date: Eighteenth Day of the Second Month, 1796)
  • 1914 - Kachusha, a wartime song about a girl longing for her beloved, who is away on military service, is performed at the Imperial Garden Theater for the first time.
  • 1945 - The Battle of Okinawa, where 230,000 lose their lives, begins.
  • 1978 - Radical protestors break into the control tower at Narita Airport.