Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/January/January 23

829 - Buddhist monk Kūkai establishes a private school known as the Shugei Shuchi In (綜芸種智院). (Traditional Japanese Date: Fifteenth Day of the Twelfth Month, 828)
1337 - Emperor Godaigo leaves Kyoto for Yoshino where he sets up the Southern Court, beginning a 60 year era of rival imperial courts in Japan. (Traditional Japanese Date: Twenty-first Day of the Twelfth Month, 1336)
1890 - The founder of Dōshisha University, Niijima Jō, dies at the age of 48.
1902 - The Aomori Infantry, Eighth Division begin their snow march toward Mt. Hakkoda. 199 soldiers die when a blizzard hits (known as the Snow March to Mt. Hakkoda).
1905 - The last remaining Japanese wolf is shot and killed at Mt. Yoshino.
1949 - The appointment of supreme court justices by referendum is instituted.
1956 - Ishihara Shintaro's Season of the Sun (太陽の季節, Taiyō no Kisetsu) wins the Akutagawa Prize, one of Japan's most prestigious literary awards created in 1935 to commemorate Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.
1963 - A blizzard hits northwestern Japan (Hokuriku, Jōetsu and Shin’etsu), killing 178 people and injuring 288.
1984 - The Yuri 2a broadcasting satellite is launched.