Genda Circus. Captain Minoru Genda served on the Akagi, and was a member of a Aviation Demonstration team known as 'Genda's Flying Circus'

Circus Day. At a shrine for the war dead, Japan's first circus was performed. A French troupe, under Msr. Soullier performed at Yasukuni Shrine in 1871. They had previously performed a smaller show at Yokohama in August the same year.