** Town of Owase ( 尾鷲町 )・ Village of Kuki ( 九鬼村 )( City of Owase ( 尾鷲市 ))

** June 20 The town of Owase and the villages of Kuki and Sugari, the village of Kitawauchi ( 北輪内村 ), Minamimuro District, and the village of Minamiwauchi ( 南輪内村 ), Minamimuro District, merged to become the city of Owase.

** 1527 Hatakeyama Yoshitaka (?- 1532 )

** Chinese character, a written language symbol ( sinogram ) used in Chinese, Japanese, and other languages

** Japanese input methods

** The Tale of the Heike ( Japanese epic war tale )

** Daigo Fuyumoto ( 1648-1697 ), Japanese court noble who founded the family branch

** Shoot boxing – A Japanese form of kickboxing which allows throwing and submission while standing, similar to Sanda.

** Japanese sound symbolism

** Used in place of ん in Japanese typing shorthand.

** Japanese Quail, Coturnix japonica

** These benthic and limnetic species even display their mating preferences when presented with sticklebacks from Japanese lakes ; that is, a Canadian benthic prefers a Japanese benthic over its close limnetic cousin from its own lake.

** Japanese tissue

** Yamaha Motor Company, a Japanese motorized vehicle-producing company

** Yamaha Pro Audio, a Japanese company specializing in products for the professional audio market

** Mayumi Iizuka, Japanese voice actress ( seiyū )

** Norifumi Yamamoto, Japanese mixed martial artist

** Misaki Ito, Japanese actress

** Angela Aki, Japanese singer-songwriter

** Kanai Mika, Japanese seiyu

** Minami Takayama, Japanese voice actress and singer ( Two-Mix & DoCo )

** Boshiro Hosogaya, Japanese admiral ( b. 1888 )

** Iwamoto Kaoru, Japanese professional Go player ( b. 1902 )

** Karina, Japanese model and actress

** Ai Iwamura, Japanese actress

** Nomura Yuka, Japanese actress

** Keiichiro Koyama, Japanese singer ( NEWS ) and actor

** Commodore ( Germany ) or Kommodore, in German naval forces

** Veterans Day, called Armistice Day until 1954, when the holiday was rededicated to be in honor all American military, naval, and Air Force, veterans.

** Panzer General, SSI ( 1994 ), video game ; strategic simulation game: Sea Lion ' 40 and Sea Lion Plus ( the latter with prestige points used to take over Gibraltar allowing Italian naval assistance ) scenarios are available given major victories in early operations, or the Sea Lion ' 43 after initial delays and later major victories in North Africa or Russia.

** Battle of Sinop, 1853 naval battle in the Sinop port

** Naval NCO Academy " Walter Steffens " in Parow ( naval training of NCOs and seamen )

** Naval Officers Academy " Karl Liebknecht " in Stralsund ( training of naval officers )

** Routine U. S. naval patrols of the South China Sea begin.

** British battleship HMS Britannia is sunk by German submarine U-50 off Trafalgar with the loss of around fifty lives, the last major naval engagement of WWI.

** Henry Robertson Bowers, Scottish naval officer ( b. 1883 )

** Edgar Evans, Welsh naval officer ( b. 1876 )

** The SS E. A. Bryan, loaded with ammunition, explodes at the Port Chicago naval base ; 320 are killed.

** US Eighth Air Force inauspiciously flies its first mission in Europe using borrowed British planes and bombs targets in the Netherlands, such as De Kooy airfield attached to Den Helder naval base.

** Battle of Cape Matapan: Off the Peloponnesus coast in the Mediterranean, British naval forces defeat those of Italy, sinking 5 warships.

** Minoru Genda, Japanese aviator, naval officer, and politician ( d. 1989 )

** The USS Samuel B. Roberts ( FFG-58 ) strikes a naval mine in the Persian Gulf, while deployed on Operation Earnest Will, during the Tanker War phase of the Iran – Iraq War.

** The Canadian ketch Vega, flying the Greenpeace III banner, collides with the French naval minesweeper La Paimpolaise while in international waters, to protest French nuclear weapon tests in the South Pacific.

** WWII: The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian battleship fleet anchored at Taranto naval base.

** Cornelis Jol, Dutch naval commander and privateer ( d. 1641 )

** Yashiro Rokurō, Japanese naval admiral ( d. 1930 )

** William Ledyard Rodgers, American admiral and military and naval historian ( d. 1944 )

** Owen Stanley, British naval officer and explorer of New Guinea ( b. 1811 )

** Samuel Humphreys, American naval architect ( b. 1778 )

** Abraham Duquesne, French naval officer ( d. 1688 )

** Philip Gidley King, English naval officer and colonial administrator ( d. 1808 )