April 26 ⇒Back 日本語
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1868 - ◆The Imperial envoy arrives at Edo castle and demands surrender.
The Imperial envoy was dispatched by Chief Army Minister Prince Arisugawa Taruhito and included Takamori Saigo. The envoy delivers the Imperial order that Edo castle be surrendered.
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1913 - ★A French professional rugby union team "Biarritz Olympique" is established.
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1945 - ★An American war film "Blood on the Sun" is released.
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1986 - ◆The groundbreaking ceremony for the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge is held.
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The day was March 18 in the Japanese calendar. And March 18, 1986 was the 100th anniversary of the creation of the navy bureau and the army bureau in the Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office (March 18, 1986).
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1986 - ◆The Chernobyl disaster.
A mishandled safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union "killed at least 4056 people and damaged almost $7 billion of property". Radioactive fallout from the accident concentrated near Belarus, Ukraine and Russia and at least 350,000 people were forcibly resettled away from these areas. After the accident, "traces of radioactive deposits unique to Chernobyl were found in nearly every country in the northern hemisphere".
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The nuclear disaster was probably Japan's conspiracy. Japan often instigates disasters in and around Japan at the same time with its own auspicious occasions. With regard to the world-longest suspension bridge, Akashi-kaikyo Bridge, Japan instigated a nuclear disaster on the dey of its groundbreaking ceremony on the one hand and a big earthquk just after the setting of two main cables over the two main towers above the sea on the other.
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2008 - ◆The Beijing Olympic torch relay is held in Nagano City, Japan.
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To tell the truth, the day marked the 22nd anniversary of the start of the construction of the Akashi-Kaikyo Bridge (April 26, 1986). And the day also marked the 10th anniversary of the opening of the bridge. The day was March 21, 2008 in the Japanese calendar. And the bridge had been opened on March 21, 1998.
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2008 - ◆A Russo-Japanese summit meeting is held on the outskirts of Moscow.
Japanese Prime Minister Fukuda pays an unofficial visit to Russia on April 25-27. He meets Russian President Putin and President-elect Medvedev. They agree on several points between the two countries.
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For ordinary Japanese, the visit seemed to be awkward because it took place just during the auspicious Beijing Olympic torch relay in Japan. But now we realize the date puns.
April 26 ⇒Back
May 6, 1868 - ◆(birth) Nicholas II of Russia, the last Emperor of Russia.
The day is April 26 in the Japanese calendar. In fact, on April 26, 1868, the Imperial envoy arrives at Edo castle and demands the surrender of the Tokugawa samurai government. On the other hand, Nicholas II, the last Russian Emperor, surrendered to the communist revolutionaries on March 15, 1917.
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Those incidents have shown that Nicholas II had been destined to be the last emperor when he had been born. In other words, there were neither ideological, economic, nor political reasons for the Russian Revolution and the revolution was a mere historical parody.
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June 1, 1940 - ▲Mariners Insurance Act is put into effect (Japan).
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June 1, 1940 - ▲USS Washington is launched.
Washington suffers no losses to hostile action during the entire course of the war, although she has some close calls.
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First American President George Washington was probably Japanese descendant. That is the reason why the USS Washington was launched on the day when Japan put Mariners Insurance Act into effect. George Washington was actually an insurance for Japan in the international diplomacy. Probably the Japanese Navy didn't fight seriously against the USS Washington.
Today, the USS George Washington Supercarrier is protecting the Japanese archipelago.
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