Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/October/October 20
Events
- 1944 - World War II: The Formosa Air Battle concludes, resulting in a decisive Allied victory over Imperial Japanese forces
Births
- 1887 - Prince Yasuhiko Asaka (d. 1981)
- 1909 - Yasushi Sugiyama (d. 1993), painter
- 1932 - Rokurō Naya (d. 2014), voice actor
- 1934 - Empress Michiko
- 1959 - Koichi Kawanishi, drummer
- 1961 - Michie Tomizawa, voice actress and singer
- 1964 - Tomoko Yamaguchi, actress and singer
- 1983 - Takayuki Yamada, actor and singer
- 1988 - Risa Niigaki, singer and actress
Film and television
- 2008 - Innocent Love begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Maki Horikita
- 2012 - Land of Hope, a film starring Isao Natsuyagi, Naoko Otani, Jun Murakami, Megumi Kagurazaka, and Denden
- 2012 - Space Sheriff Gavan: The Movie, a tokusatsu film starring Yuma Ishigaki and Kenji Ohba