Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/March/March 2
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< Portal:Japan | Anniversaries | March
- 1657 - The Great Fire of Meireki claims the lives of nearly 100,000 people in Edo. (Traditional Japanese Date: Eighteenth Day of the First Month, 1657)
- 1886 - The Imperial University proclamation is issued establishing the Imperial University (the predecessor to Tokyo University.
- 1943 - Due to wartime policy, all baseball terms that were previously borrowed from English are officially replaced with Japanese words.
- 1976 - A time bomb goes off in the HokkaidÅ civic center, killing two people.
- 1981 - Official repatriation of war orphans left behind in China after World War II begins.
