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Events

700 - Buddhist monk Dōshō becomes the first person in Japanese history to be cremated. (Traditional Japanese Date: Tenth Day of the Third Month, 700)
1582 - Oda Nobunaga defeats Takeda Katsunori, eliminating the Takeda hereditary line. (Traditional Japanese Date: Eleventh Day of the Third Month, 1582)
1687 - The Edo Shogunate establishes a registration system for pet dogs. (Traditional Japanese Date: Twenty-first Day of the Second Month, 1687)
1825 - A law is passed mandating that foreign ships be driven away and not allowed to land. (Traditional Japanese Date: Fifteenth Day of the Second Month, 1825)
1895 - Japan's first tree planting ceremony is held.
1911 - The modern day Nihonbashi is opened. The famed Tokyo bridge is rebuilt as a stone arch designed to evoke the European renaissance style.
1919 - Yamamoto Sanehiko establishes the socialist Kaizō Magazine (Reform Magazine), which was published until 1955. Shiga Naoya's A Dark Night's Passing (暗夜行路, Anya Kōro) and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's Kappa (河童) were both born in the literary section of Kaizō.
1928 - Followers of the religion Tenrikyō are suppressed when the religion is found to be in violation of the law against irreverence against the emperor.
1930 - The first automatic train ticket dispensers appear in Tokyo and Ueno stations.
1947 - The first Japanese nightingales (young women chosen to be announcers because of their beautiful voices) make their appearance at the Kōrakuen Stadium.

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Film and television

1971 - Kamen Rider begins airing on TV Asahi, starring Hiroshi Fujioka, Takeshi Sasaki, Akiji Kobayashi, and Jirō Chiba

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