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1567 - Ieyasu obtains permission from the court to change his surname from Matsudaira to Tokugawa. (Traditional Japanese Date: Twenty-ninth Day of the Twelfth Month, 1566)
1882 - The Hokkaidō Development Agency is abolished.
1887 - Japan adopts the official postal mark (〒).
1958 - 9,500 people come to see the first western style carnival is held in Yūrakuchō, Tokyo.
1959 - The 6.1 km Kurobe Tunnel in the northern Japan Alps is completed, allowing work on the Kuroyon Power Plant to continue.
1982 - 33 people are killed and 29 are injured in the Hotel New Japan fire in Akasaka, Tokyo.
1983 - The average height of high school senior boys reaches 170 cm (5' 7").