It is held in order to congratulate and encourage all those who have reached the age of majority (20 years old) over the past year, and to help them realize that they have become adults.

Coming of age ceremonies have been celebrated in Japan since at least 714 AD, when a young prince donned new robes and a hairstyle to mark his passage into adulthood. The holiday is first established on July 20, 1948, to be held every year on January 15. In 2000, as a result of the Happy Monday System, Coming of Age Day is changed to the second Monday in January.

※ But to tell the truth, the day is the 20th birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr (January 15, 1929). And in the light of coincidences between his history and the Japanese history, it is obvious that the Japanese government created the holiday just to celebrate King's coming-of-age day.

A magnitude 7.3 earthquake hits near Kobe, Japan, causing extensive property damage and killing 6,434 people.

To attend the damp forces exerted on the bridge, the Akashi kaikyo Bridge has a pendulum system that operates at the resonance frequency. At the time of the earthquake, the bridge was under construction almost over the epicenter. In fact, the earthquake occurred at a good timing for testing the pendulum system. The tower structures experienced no structural damage. The only effect was the 1m relative movement of the towers and anchorage.

※ Korechika Anami, a general in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II, and War Minister at the surrender of Japan, preferring to die rather than see Japan surrender, committed seppuku at 5:30 a.m., on August 15, 1945. He should have died after a little more than 10 minutes. In fact, however, his suicide was a critical moment in the Japanese war history.

In 1995, the Japanese government maneuvered the earthquake in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the surrender of Japan. Because the surrender was a camouflaged surrender. World War II was a fake war, and the US forces had been secretly controlled by the Japanese military.

The earthquake was created on January 17, 1995 (August 15, 1415 in the Islamic calendar). And the first impact of the earthquake hit the Japanese archipelago at 5:46 a.m., which was arranged in accordance with the estimated last breath of General Anami.

Fortunately or unfortunately, Anami's suicidal seppuku was a fake performance. Naturally he didn't die. In addition, all the Japanese war criminals survived after the war though they were formally reported to have been executed by the allied forces.

The NAVS stands for the National Association of Crime Victims and Surviving Families.

Ohashi is succeeded by Marutei Tsurunen, the first European-descended and openly foreign-born Japanese person to serve in the Diet.

China becomes the world’s second-largest economy.