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2000 --Aichi International Broadcasting (RADIO-i) opened
2000-Long-term care insurance system and adult guardianship system enforced (system for an aging society).
2000 --Asahikawa City, Hokkaido and Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture are transformed into core cities.
2001-Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation is established.
2001-Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture moves to a core city.
2001-The Netherlands enforces the same-sex marriage law for the first time in the world.
2001-Shiroi City, Chiba Prefecture and Itako City, Ibaraki Prefecture enforce the city system.
2001-Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic, accused of war crimes, surrenders to police special forces.
2002 --The DV Prevention Law is fully enforced.
2002-Mizuho Bank and Mizuho Corporate Bank are established. Computer system troubles have occurred one after another from the first day.
2002 --The curriculum guidelines have been revised, and a complete five-day weekly Yutori education has started.
2002 --Tomisato City, Chiba Prefecture, Sanuki City, Kagawa Prefecture, and Tomigusuku City, Okinawa Prefecture enforced the city system.
2002 --Nara City, Nara Prefecture, Kurashiki City, Okayama Prefecture moved to core cities.
2003 --Saitama City, Saitama Prefecture, has moved to the 13th ordinance-designated city, and nine administrative districts, Nishi Ward, Kita Ward, Omiya Ward, Minuma Ward, Chuo Ward, Sakura Ward, Urawa Ward, Minami Ward, and Midori Ward, have been established. ..
2003 --Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture, Funabashi City, Chiba Prefecture, Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture, and Takatsuki City, Osaka Prefecture have moved to core cities. (Currently, Sagamihara City is an ordinance-designated city)
2003 --Kami Town, Miyagi Prefecture, Kanna Town, Gunma Prefecture, Minami Alps City, Yamanashi Prefecture, Yamagata City, Gifu Prefecture, Osakikamijima Town, Hiroshima Prefecture, Higashikagawa City, Kumamoto Prefecture, and Asagiri Town, Kumamoto Prefecture are established due to the merger of cities, towns and villages.
2003 --Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture and Shimizu City merge to form a new Shizuoka City.
2003 --The Postal Services Agency becomes Japan Post.
2004 --Agano City, Niigata Prefecture, Tomi City, Nagano Prefecture, Izu City / Omaezaki City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Kyotango City, Kyoto Prefecture, Yabu City, Hyogo Prefecture, Seiyo City, Ehime Prefecture enforced the city system. Kawanoe City, Ehime Prefecture, Iyo Mishima City and two other towns and villages merged into Shikokuchuo City.
2004 --The Teito Rapid Transit Authority is privatized and becomes Tokyo Metro Co., Ltd. (Tokyo Metro).
2004 --The Japan Student Services Organization was established by the merger of the Japan Ikueikai, the Japan International Education Association, the Domestic and Foreign Student Center, the International Alumni Association, and the Kansai International Alumni Association.
2004-Japan Airlines becomes Japan Airlines International, Japan Air System becomes Japan Airlines Japan.
2005-Full payoff ban lifted.
2005-Tome City, Miyagi Prefecture, Kurihara City, Higashi Matsushima City, Izunokuni City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Aisai City, Aichi Prefecture, Asago City, Hyogo Prefecture, Awaji City, Shiso City, Awa City, Tokushima Prefecture, Saikai City, Nagasaki Prefecture enforced the city system. Ishikawa City, Gushikawa City, Okinawa Prefecture and 2 other towns merged into Uruma City
2005-Full enforcement of the Personal Information Protection Law.
2005-Iwatsuki City, Saitama Prefecture merged with Saitama City. The former Iwatsuki city area is located in Iwatsuki Ward, one of the administrative districts.
2005 --Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture, has moved to the 14th ordinance-designated city, and three administrative districts, Aoi Ward, Suruga Ward, and Shimizu Ward, have been established.
2005-Higashi-Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture moves to a core city.
2006 --Highway card abolished.
2006 --Yatomi City, Aichi Prefecture and Iwade City, Wakayama Prefecture enforce the city system.
2006 --Sakai City, Osaka Prefecture, has moved to the 15th ordinance-designated city, and seven administrative districts have been established: Sakai Ward, Naka Ward, Higashi Ward, Nishi Ward, Minami Ward, Kita Ward, and Mihara Ward.
2006 --Started accepting applications for regional collective trademark registration.
2006 --One Seg begins main broadcasting in the broadcasting area of the area where terrestrial digital television broadcasting has started.
2007-Part of the School Education Law is amended.
2007 --Niigata City, Niigata Prefecture, and Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, have moved to the 16th and 17th ordinance-designated cities at the same time.・ Eight administrative districts of Nishigama Ward and seven administrative districts of Naka Ward, Higashi Ward, Nishi Ward, Minami Ward, Kita Ward, Hamakita Ward, and Tenryu Ward were established in Hamamatsu City.
2008 --Morioka City, Iwate Prefecture, Kashiwa City, Chiba Prefecture, Nishinomiya City, Hyogo Prefecture, and Kurume City, Fukuoka Prefecture have moved to core cities.
2009-Albania and Croatia join NATO.
2009 --Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture, has moved to the 18th ordinance-designated city, and four administrative districts, Kita Ward, Naka Ward, Higashi Ward, and Minami Ward, have been established.
2009-The teacher license renewal system begins.
2009 --Maebashi City, Gunma Prefecture, Otsu City, Shiga Prefecture, and Amagasaki City, Hyogo Prefecture have moved to core cities.
2009 --Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) becomes the second broadcasting holding company in Japan, and the trade name is changed to "Tokyo Broadcasting Systems Holdings" (abbreviation: TBSHD). The former Tokyo Broadcasting System's TV broadcasting license and general business such as broadcasting business were succeeded to "TBS Television Co., Ltd." (established in 2000).
2009 --Nippon Express transfers the business related to "Pelican flights" to JP Express.
2010 --Sagamihara City, Kanagawa Prefecture, has moved to the 19th ordinance-designated city, and three administrative districts, Midori Ward, Chuo Ward, and Minami Ward, have been established.
2010-Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co., Ltd. is listed for the first time on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
2011-Takasaki City, Gunma Prefecture moves to a core city.
2011-The Japan Sumo Association announces the disposition of wrestlers who are believed to have been involved in match-fixing in the match-fixing issue.
2011 --Started broadcasting the morning information program "ZIP!" On NTV. The first moderators are Taichi Masu (announcer of the same station, still a continuous cast) and Mari Sekine.
2012-Multimedia broadcasting for smartphones "NOTTV" opens.
2012 --Kumamoto City, Kumamoto Prefecture has moved to the 20th ordinance-designated city, and five administrative districts, Chuo Ward, Higashi Ward, Nishi Ward, Minami Ward, and Kita Ward, have been established.
2012 --A dismembered murder case occurs in Suwon City, Gyeonggi Province, Republic of Korea.
2012 --Toyonaka City, Osaka Prefecture, has moved to a core city.
2013 --Naha City, Okinawa Prefecture has moved to a core city.
2013 --Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting (CBC) transfers the broadcasting license of the radio business to "CBC Radio Co., Ltd.", and the call sign of CBC TV is changed from "JOAR-DTV" to "JOGX-DTV".
2014 --TV Asahi (former corporation) will be the last key station in Tokyo to become a broadcasting holding company, the trade name will be changed to TV Asahi Holdings, and the TV broadcasting license will be transferred to TV Asahi (new corporation). On the same day, the broadcast time of "Tetsuko's Room" was changed from 13:00 to noon.
2014 --Hirakata City, Osaka Prefecture has moved to a core city.
2014 --Chubu-Nippon Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (CBC) became a broadcasting holding company, and the entire business such as TV broadcasting license and broadcasting business was succeeded to "CBC Television Co., Ltd." established by the company split.
2014-Japan's consumption tax rate has been increased from 5% to 8%. The consumption tax hike is the first in 17 years since the same day in 1997.
2015 --Koshigaya City, Saitama Prefecture, and Hachioji City, Tokyo have moved to core cities.
2015-Shibuya Ward is the first in Japan to issue a "partnership certificate" that recognizes same-sex couples as "marriage-equivalent relationships". Enforced in [1].
2016 --RKB Mainichi Broadcasting (former corporation) changed to a broadcasting holding company and changed its trade name to "RKB Mainichi Holdings". The entire business, including TV and radio broadcasting licenses and broadcasting business, was transferred to the new corporation "RKB Mainichi Broadcasting", which was established through a company split.
2016-Act on Promotion of Elimination of Discrimination on the Grounds of Disability Enforces. Prohibition of discrimination against persons with disabilities, the Government of Japan and businesses are required to provide reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities.
2016-Japan's electricity liberalization will be applied to household use. The exclusive sales of the 10 major electric power companies (Hokkaido Electric Power, Tohoku Electric Power, Tokyo Electric Power, Chubu Electric Power, Hokuriku Electric Power, Kansai Electric Power, Chugoku Electric Power, Shikoku Electric Power, Kyushu Electric Power, Okinawa Electric Power) collapsed, and the liberalization of electric power sales in Japan Reach 100%.
2017 --LEGOLAND Japan opens in Nagoya City, Aichi Prefecture.
2017-Full retail liberalization of urban gas will be applied to household use. Local monopoly sales by general gas companies have collapsed.
2017 --Fuji Heavy Industries changed its trade name to "SUBARU".
2017-MBS TV (MBS, former corporation) changed its trade name to "MBS Media Holdings". The entire business, including TV and radio broadcasting licenses and broadcasting business, was succeeded to "MBS TV", a new corporation established by the company split.
2018-The Sanko Line has been abolished. This is the first time that it will be abolished on routes over 100km in Honshu.
2019 --Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga announces the next era of Heisei in Japan as "Reiwa".
2019 --Mitsui Life Insurance Co., Ltd. changed its name to Taiju Life Insurance Co., Ltd.
2020-The Health Promotion Act will be significantly revised in Japan, and smoking rules will become even stricter.
[Today is my birthday: Congratulations! ]
1220 (February 26, 2nd year of Jōkyu) --Emperor Gosaga, 88th Emperor (Death 1272)
1578-William Harvey, Medical Scientist (1657)
1647-John Wilmot, poet (death 1680)
1697-Antoine François Prevo, novelist (1763 death)
1753-Joseph de Maistre, thinker (death 1821)
1755-Jean Anthelme Brill-Savaran, politician, lawyer, author (death 1826)
1776-Sophie Germain, mathematician (death 1831)
1809 (March 20, Julian calendar) --Nikolai Gogol, novelist, playwright (1852)
1815-Otto von Bismarck, Prime Minister of Prussia, First Chancellor of the German Empire (death 1898)
1809 (March 20, Julian calendar) --Nikolai Gogol, novelist, playwright (1852)
1815-Otto von Bismarck, Prime Minister of Prussia, First Chancellor of the German Empire (death 1898)
1840-Illalion Pryanishnikov, painter (1894)
1842-Edmund Neupert, pianist, composer (1888)
1847 (February 16, 1847) --Prince Kitashirakawa Yoshihisa, Imperial Family, Army Soldier (Death 1895)
1855 (February 15, Ansei 2) --Gendo Oi, Pharmacologist (death 1930)
1861 (February 22, 1923) --Yusaburo Kato, 21st Prime Minister (1923)
1865-Richard Zigmondi, Chemist (1929)
1866-Feruccio Busoni, composer, pianist, conductor (death 1924)
1868-Edmond Rostand, playwright (death 1918)
1873 (March 20, Julian calendar) --Sergei Rachmaninoff, composer, pianist (death 1943)
1878-Carl Sternheim, writer (death 1942)
1883-Lon Chaney, actor (death 1930)
1885-Wallace Beery, actor (1949)
1887-Leonard Bloomfield, Linguist (1949)
1889 --Sonosuke Kimura (21s), Tate-gyoji Grand Sumo (1970)
1892-Mansuke Ohnosato, sumo wrestler (1938)
1893-Yasujiro Niwa, electrical engineer (death 1975)
1897-Sakae Wagatsuma, legal scholar (death 1973)
1897-Nita Naldi, actress (death 1961)
1898-Anna Ono, violinist (deceased 1979)
1902-Hajime Fukuda, politician (death 1997)
1903-Kan'ichiro Ishihara, politician (death 1989)
1903-Ryu Murayama, critic (death 1994)
1904-Iku Takenaka, poet (death 1982)
1904-Batten Nagasaki, cartoonist (death 1981)
1907-Takashi Inukai, Manyo Scholar (Death 1998)
1908-Abraham Maslow, psychologist (death 1970)
1909-Takuma Yasui, economist (death 1995)
1910-Shotaro Ogawa, baseball player (1980)
1912-Takashi Hasegawa, politician (death 1992)
1912 --Hachiro Maekawa, professional baseball player, leader (death 2010)
1914-Kyu Sazanka, actor (death 1971)
1915-Kiyoshi Naoi, novelist (death 1997)
1915 --Tsuruo Suzuki, professional baseball player (year of death unknown)
1917-Hitoshi Utsumi, bureaucrat (death 2012)
1919-Horst-Günter von Fastsong, Luftwaffe Ace Pilot (1945)
1919-Joseph Murray, Medical Scientist (Death 2012)
1920-Toshiro Mifune, film actor (1997)
1921-Jiro Takidai, cut painter, print artist (death 2009)
1922-Seizo Motora, Naval Engineer
1922-Kuniyasu Tsuchida, police bureaucrat (death 1999)
1922-Alan Perlis, Computer Scientist (1990)
1924-Katsumi Mashiko, cartoonist (death 1971)
1926-Junnosuke Masumi, political scientist (death 2010)
1926-Anne McCaffrey, science fiction writer, fantasy writer (death 2011)
1927-Jacques Mayol, Freediver (2001)
1928-Yoshihide Kozai, Astronomer (Death 2018)
1928-Kiyonori Kikutake, Architect (Death 2011)
1928-Toki Shiozawa, actress (2007)
1929-Milan Kundera, novelist
1930-Sosaburo Kimura, Western historian (died 2006)
1930-Keiko Take, TV Producer
1931 --Naoya Yoshida, director (death 2008)
1932-Debbie Reynolds, actress and singer (death 2016)
1932-Chieko Furukawa, writer
1932-Yuki Oto, professional baseball player
1933-Fujio Ishihara, science fiction writer
1933-Claude Cohen-Tanuji, physicist
1933-Dan Flavin, minimalist artist (death 1996)
1934-Chikara Sakaguchi, politician
1934-Osamu Goto, professional baseball player
1936-Koji Wakamatsu, film director (death 2012)
1937-Riki Kawara, politician (death 2013)
1937-Toyohiko Aida, professional baseball player (death 2012)
1938-Akihito Kondo, professional baseball player, professional baseball manager
1938-Masahiko Aoki, economist (death 2015)
1939-Ali MacGraw, actress
1939-Phil Niekro, Major Leaguer
1940-Wangari Maathai, Environmental Protection Activist (Death 2011)
1941-Emi Ito, singer (death 2012)
1941-Yumi Ito, singer (death 2016)
1941-Hidekazu Abe, Western-style painter
1941-Teruo Hamada, businessman, founder of Hokkaido International Airlines (2000)
1942-Samuel R. Delany, science fiction writer
1943-Mario Botta, architect
1944-Isao Kuraishi, actor
1944-Yoshiyuki Sano, professional baseball player
1944-Osamu Ishiyama, architect
1944-Vladimir Krainev, pianist, music teacher (death 2011)
1946-Arrigo Sacchi, football leader
1948-Norihiro Kato, literary critic
1948-Jimmy Cliff, reggae musician
1949-Yoshiko Hoshida, TV drama director
1951-Tomoko Ogawa, Go player
1952-Bernard Stiegler, philosopher
1952-Annette O'Toole, actress
1953-Barry Sonnenfeld, film director
1953-Alberto Zaccheroni, football leader
1954-Susumu Hirasawa, musician
1954-Hirohito Hayashi, cook, pastry chef
1954-Mariko Hayashi, novelist
1954-Giancarlo Antognoni, soccer player
1954-Jeff Porcaro, Musician (Death 1992)
1955-Takeshi Okamura, amateur baseball coach
1957-Yao Bin, figure skater
1958-Hiromi Kawakami, novelist
1958-Fumio Sugiura, economic commentator (death 2016)
1959-Christian Thielemann, conductor
1959-Shoji Namba, politician
1959-Helmuth Duckadam, soccer player
1961-Katsumi Takahashi, actor
1961-Yuichi Haba, actor
1961-Susan Boyle, singer
1967-Yu Aihara, talent
1967-Isako Washio, actress
1968-Masumi Kuwata, professional baseball player
1968-Ryota Takeda, politician
1968-Hideyuki Yurioka Q, comedy talent
1969-Koichi Sekikawa, professional baseball player
1971-Chieri Ito, singer
1971-Shinji Nakano, racing driver
1971-Method Man, Rapper
1972 --Raimon Happiness, Rakugoka
1973-Junko Yaginuma, sports commentator, professional figure skater
1974-Paolo Bettini, Bicycle Pro Road Racer
1974-Kanji Suzumori, voice actor
1975-Shigekazu Wakisaka, racing driver
1976-Clarence Seedorf, soccer player, leader
1978-Olga Sharutenko, figure skater
1979-Ivano Balić, handball player
1979-Gia Lewis-Smallwood, track and field athlete
1980-Randy Orton, professional wrestler
1980-Yuko Takeuchi, actress
1980-Yasser Gomez, baseball player
1980-Valerie Marcoux, figure skater
1981-KEI, cartoonist, illustrator
1981-Shinya Hosokawa, racing driver
1981-Hannah Spearritt, actress, singer, fashion model
1982-Andreas Thorkildsen, track and field athlete
1983-John Axford, Major Leaguer
1984-Sakimi Kanda, fashion model
1984-Sayaka Kondo, caster, idol
1986-Shunn, singer
1986-Yurika Nakamura, track and field athlete
1987-Joshua Short, professional baseball player
1989-Saeko Ura, singer
1989-Yudai Ohno, artist
1989-Yumi Sugimoto, fashion model
1989-Chris Withrow, Major Leaguer
1990-Kyoko Ito, basketball player
1991-Caesar Puello, professional baseball player
1991-Melanie Rios, pornographic actress
1991-Shota Tomonaga, professional baseball player
1993-Keito Okamoto, talent
1993-Aya Shibata, caster, talent
1994-Emma, fashion model
1998-Yuzuki Hidaka, Idol
2000-Yumeno Kishimoto's idol
2000-Kurumi Hiiragi, professional wrestler
Unknown year of birth-Yayoi Tsukamoto, cartoonist
Unknown year of birth-Maiko Erikawa, voice actor
Year of birth unknown-Jushiro Tachibana, voice actor
[Today's flower language]
◆ Almond Almond
Flower language: sincere love
◆ Sakura Cherry
Flower language: the beauty of the spirit
◆ Ornithogalum Star of Bethlehem
Flower language: pure
[People who died: I pray for your soul]
1085 (March 10, 8th year of Yuanfeng) --The 6th emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty, Shinshu (birth year 1048)
1204-Arienor Daquitaine, Duke of Aquitaine (birth year 1122)
1528-Francisco de Peñalosa, composer (birth around 1470)
1580-Alonso Mudarra, composer (birth around 1510)
1607 (March 5, 2012) --Tadayoshi Matsudaira, the owner of Kiyosu Castle, and the fourth son of Ieyasu Tokugawa (birth year 1580)
1637 (March 6, 14th Kanei) --Niwa Nagashige, Sengoku warlord, Shirakawa feudal lord (birth year 1571)
1802-Joseph Duplessis, painter (birth year 1725)
1863 (February 14, 3rd year of Bunkyu) --Nobuaki Fushihara, Edo period lord, Confucian scholar (1790)
1890-Alexander Mozhaysky, aviation engineer (birth 1825)
1914-Rube Waddell, Major League Baseball player (1876)
1917-Scott Joplin, composer (1868)
1922-Charles I, the last emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire (1887)
1924-Stan Rowley, track and field athlete (1876 years of birth)
1930-Cosima Wagner, wife of composer Richard Wagner (1837)
1940-John Atkinson Hobson, economist (1858)
1946-Michiko Kuwano, actress (birth year 1915)
1947-George II, King of Greece (1890)
1952-Mornar Ferenc, playwright, novelist (1878)
1965-Helena Rubinstein, businessman (birth year 1872)
1968-Lev Landau, physicist (1908)
1973-Misao Yokoyama, painter (birth year 1920)
1976-Max Ernst, painter (birth year 1891)
1980-Kosuke Gomi, novelist (birth year 1921)
1984-Marvin Gaye, Soul R & B singer (1939)
1985-Takeji Hayashi, Educational Philosophy (1906)
1987-Teruyo Kasuga, Manzai Master (1935)
1988-Tomoya Tsuruta, novelist (birth year 1902)
1988-Risuke Narita, baseball critic (1909)
1991-Martha Graham, Butoh Dancer, Choreographer (1894)
1993-Solly Zuckerman, zoologist (birth year 1904)
1994-Robert Doisneau, photographer (birth 1912)
1996-John McSherry, Major League Baseball Referee (1944)
2001-Chin Kong Son, singer-songwriter (1939)
2002-Simo Häyhä, military personnel, sniper (birth year 1905)
2003-Hyosuke Kujira, politician (birth year 1915)
2003-Leslie Cheung, singer, actor (birth year 1956)
2004-Ichiro Nakatani, actor (birth year 1930)
2006-Isao Matsudaira, politician (1907)
2006-Ai Takano, singer (birth year 1951)
2006-Ryusuke Matsumoto, comedy talent (birth year 1956)
2011-Taisuke Kobuchi, professional baseball player (1935)
2012-Wataru Mori, pathologist, President of the University of Tokyo (1926)
2013-Terue Nunami, actress, voice actor (birth year 1923)
2014-Jacques Le Goff, a medieval historian (birth 1924)
2014-Keiko Oguro, poet, fairy tale writer (birth year 1928)
2015-Misao Okawa, the oldest woman (birth year 1898)
2015-Takakazu Kuriyama, Diplomat (birth year 1931)
2015-Kazuo Yamagishi, chef, founder of ramen shop "Taishoken" (1934)
2015-Tatsuyoshi Yasuhara, former professional baseball player (birth year 1936)
2017-Yevgeny Yevtuschenko, poet, writer (birth year 1932)
2018-Shiira Gou, novelist (year of birth unknown)
2020-Yoshimasa Yamanishi, businessman, founder of Izumi (birth year 1922)
2021-Isamu Akasaki, physicist (1929)