{"slug": "shikoku", "label": "Shikoku", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shikoku", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13991", "qid": "Q13991", "description": "fourth largest island of Japan", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [1164, 1998], "span_label": ["1164 CE", "1998 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 2}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Shikoku Island"], "related": [{"slug": "honshu", "label": "Honshu", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "japan", "label": "Japan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kyushu", "label": "Kyushu", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kyoto", "label": "Kyoto", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "emperor-sutoku", "label": "Emperor Sutoku", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "toyotomi-hideyoshi", "label": "Toyotomi Hideyoshi", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "taira-clan", "label": "Taira clan", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1164, "year_label": "1164 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 14", "text": "September 14 – Emperor Sutoku of Japan dies in Sanuki Province (on the island of Shikoku), having lived in exile from the capital at Kyoto since 1156.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362164526#Asia", "title": "1164", "revid": 1362164526, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1185, "year_label": "1185 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 22", "text": "March 22 – Battle of Yashima: Japanese forces (with some 140 ships, 1,000 cavalry and 30,000 horses) under Minamoto no Yoshitsune defeat the Taira clan just off Shikoku in the Seto Inland Sea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362484284#Asia", "title": "1185", "revid": 1362484284, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1585, "year_label": "1585 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 6", "text": "August 6 – (11th day of the 7th month of Tenshō 13) Invasion of Shikoku: In Japan, Chōsokabe Motochika surrenders the island of Shikoku to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, after a 26 day siege of the Ichinomiya Castle by 40,000 men.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365931198#July–September", "title": "1585", "revid": 1365931198, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1893, "year_label": "1893 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "October 14", "text": "October 14 – A devastating levee collapse, flash flood and landslide hit and damage around Kyushu Island, Shikoku Island and western Honshū in Japan, due to a strong typhoon wind; an official document reports that 2,044 people perish.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369946190#October", "title": "1893", "revid": 1369946190, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1899, "year_label": "1899 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 28", "text": "August 28 – At least 512 people are killed when a debris hill from the Sumitomo Besshi copper mine at Niihama, Shikoku, Japan, collapses.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371393177#August", "title": "1899", "revid": 1371393177, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1975, "year_label": "1975 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "August 17", "text": "August 17–18 – Typhoon Phyllis, where hit on landslide, debris flow, flood swept hit in Kochi Prefecture, Shikoku Island, killing 77 persons and 209 persons injures, according to Japan Fire and Disaster Management official confirmed report.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353785981#Events", "title": "1975 in Japan", "revid": 1353785981, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1984, "year_label": "1984 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "November 15", "text": "November 15 – According to Fire and Disaster Management Agency official confirmed report, a Mishima complex building caught fire in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture in Shikoku Island, eight persons were human fatalities.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366008804#Events", "title": "1984 in Japan", "revid": 1366008804, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1998, "year_label": "1998 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "April 5", "text": "April 5 – In Japan, the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge linking Shikoku with Honshū and costing about US$3.6 billion, opens to traffic, becoming the largest suspension bridge in the world.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373236679#April", "title": "1998", "revid": 1373236679, "section": "Events › April"}}]}