The date coincidence between Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Yasukuni gives evidence of the true nature of Yasukuni.

It is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly.

The torrential rain on August 1 and the Heavy rains and debris on August 6 were the conspiracy of the Japanese government in which the two rainfall disasters were synchronized with the past samurai incidents in 1333. The Japanese government celebrated the new prime minister on the one hand while they bullied the region of ethnic minorities on the other.

Ban Ki-moon is the first UN chief to attend the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony.

An EF2 tornado touches down in Kings County and Richmond County, New York State, the most powerful tornado in New York to date and the first in Brooklyn since 1889.

He is killed by a seven-person Sandinista commando team in Asuncion, Paraguay.

Nicholas I sends Yevfimy Putyatin to Japan in this expedition for trade negotiations. Putyatin leads a squadron of four ships including the Russian frigate Pallada. They arrive in Nagasaki on this day.

The Sanko Steamship Company was founded in 1934. Its operating area was the western Pacific Ocean around Japan, the Korean Peninsula and China. Its aggressive business expansion in the 1960s made the company one of the largest shipping companies in the world.

Although the bankruptcy was the largest at taht time in Japan, media coverage was small due to a devastating airplane crash accident which had occurred the previous day on August 12, 1985.

Toshio Komoto, the former president of the company and its largest stockholder, resigned from the cabinet the same day.

The day was the 300th anniversary of the first edict to protect animals (August 13, 1685).

Tokyo fails to win the bid. But the miserable news is covered up the next day (October 3, 2009) in Japan by the breaking news of the death of Financial Minister Shoichi Nakagawa.

It happened after Moore refused to comply with a federal court order to remove a rock inscribed with the Ten Commandments from the lobby of the Alabama Supreme Court building. Moore is removed on November 13, 2003.

※ The day is the 100th anniversary of Salisbury's birth (August 22, 1903). Salisbury was Japanese and Moore is Japanese, too. Moore was born on February 11, 1947, the 100th anniversary of Thomas Edison's birth (February 11, 1847). Edison was Japanese and the day was really special.

Unit 684 was a South Korean "black operations" team whose mission was to kill North Korea's premier Kim Il-sung. But for reasons which remain unclear, Unit 684 members rose up and killed all but six of their guards and made their way to the mainland, where they hijacked a bus to Seoul. The bus was stopped by the army. Twenty members of the unit were shot or committed suicide with hand grenades. The four survivors were sentenced to death by a military tribunal and executed on 10 March 1972.

George Washington replaces USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63) as the forward-deployed carrier at Yokosuka Naval Base in Yokosuka, Japan, becoming the first nuclear-powered surface warship permanently stationed outside the continental U.S. The plan was announced on December 1, 2005.

It was actually a harbinger of a series of the Russian apartment bombings.