{"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": 6, "years": 6, "span": [1164, 1998], "span_label": ["1164 CE", "1998 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "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": 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"}}]}