Events

1754 - Yamawaki Tōyō becomes the first Japanese to perform experiments on people. (Traditional Japanese Date: Seventh Day of the Second Month, 1754)
1952 - The U.S.-Japan Status of Forces Agreement is signed.
1953 - During a meeting of the Budget Committee of the Lower House, Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida responds to a question by Socialist Party member Eiichi Nishimura by yelling "bakayarō! (idiot!)". The prime minister later loses a vote of confidence on March 14 in what has come to be referred to as the bakayarō dissolution.
1957 - Japan's South Pole expeditionary ship the Sōya gets stuck in ice and is later rescued by a Russian ice cutter.
1964 - Fujio Fujiko's Obake no Q-tarō begins its run in the Weekly Sunday.
1972 - Police storm the Asama Mountain Resort where five members of the Japanese Red Army have taken a hostage, ending the Asama-Sanso incident. Two policemen are killed and 13 people are injured.
1982 - Ayako Okamoto wins the LPGA Arizona Copper Classic, the first Japanese woman to win the LPGA since Higuchi Hisako's win in 1977.

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