June 4:

Events

• 1615 - Osaka castle falls to Tokugawa Ieyasu following a long siege (the Siege of Osaka). (Traditional Japanese date: Eighth Day of the Fifth Month in the First Year of Genna (1615))
• 1858 - Ii Naosuke is appointed Tairō, or great elder.
• 1879 - The "Tōkyō Shōkonsha" changes its name to Yasukuni Shrine.
• 1928 - Manchurian warloard Zhāng Zuòlín is assassinated by members of the Kwantung Army, a unit of the Imperial Japanese Army.
• 1954 - Over 5,700 employees of Omikenshi Co., Ltd., an Osaka textile manufacturer, lead a strike demanding respect for civil rights, such as the right to marry freely, the right of privacy of correspondence and an end to forced conversion to Buddhism. The strike lasts over one hundred days and ends in a victory for the workers.

Births

• 1829 - Jinmaku Kyūgorō (d. 1903), sumo wrestler, the 12th Yokozuna
• 1953 - Susumu Ojima, businessman, founded Huser
• 1954 - Kazuhiro Yamaji, actor and voice actor
• 1964 - Kōji Yamamura, animator, producer, and screenwriter
• 1971 - Shoji Meguro, director and composer
• 1972 - Nikka Costa, Japanese-American singer-songwriter
• 1979 - Naohiro Takahara, footballer
• 1984 - Kento Handa, actor
• 1995 - Shiori Tamai, singer
• 1997 - Kana Nakanishi, singer