On this day
February 4 in Japanese History
8 recorded events on this date, across every century.
- 1348 Battle of Shijōnawate 四條畷の戦い · Battle — 1348 battle
- 1553 Mōri Terumoto 毛利輝元 · Samurai — daimyo
- 1745 Maeda Harunaga 前田治脩 · Samurai — daimyo
- 1853 Kaneko Kentarō 金子堅太郎 · Politician — Japanese politician, one of the drafters of the Meiji Constitution (1853–1942)
- 1865 Abe Isoo 安部磯雄 · Politician — Japanese politician
- 1868 Shōzō Arisaka 有坂鉊蔵 · Monk — Japanese admiral, engineer, professor emeritus of Imperial University of Tokyo (1868-1941)
- 1869 Kaho Miyake 三宅花圃 · Writer — Japanese novelist (1869-1943)
- 1884 Hideo Hatoyama 鳩山秀夫 · Politician — Japanese lawyer