Historical clue formulations

• Home to Universal Studios Japan — 2026-06-29
• Home to the oldest Buddhist temple in Japan (built in A.D. 593) — 2025-06-18
• Tennis champ Naomi — 2025-05-20
• City that's home to the Shitennoji temple — 2025-05-06
• In 2021 she became the first tennis player to light the Olympic cauldron during the opening ceremony — 2025-03-16
• Tennis champion Naomi — 2024-10-23
• Tennis star Naomi — 2024-01-31
• Tennis's Naomi — 2023-11-26
• Tennis champion Naomi — 2022-11-23
• Tennis star Naomi, who was born in 29-Across — 2022-10-16
• City near Kobe — 2022-07-22
• U.S. Open tennis champion of 2018 and 2020 — 2021-04-09
• First Asian tennis player to be ranked #1 in singles — 2021-02-07
• Japan's street food mecca — 2021-01-24
• Third-largest city in Japan — 2020-11-23
• 2020 U.S. Open tennis champ Naomi — 2020-10-04
• Tennis pro Naomi — 2020-07-29
• Tennis star Naomi — 2020-06-04
• Port of Honshu — 2020-01-07
• Tennis star Naomi — 2019-07-11
• Japanese port of 2+ million — 2019-06-24
• Universal Studios Japan site — 2019-03-27
• Japanese city on a bay — 2019-02-13
• Home of the first Universal Studios outside the U.S. — 2018-06-09
• City destroyed by 1-Across — 2018-06-02
• City at the mouth of the Yodo River — 2018-03-03
• Japanese port city — 2017-08-07
• City destroyed by Godzilla — 2017-02-08
• One terminus of a Japanese bullet train — 2016-02-23
• Where Sharp and Panasonic are headquartered — 2015-12-08
• Asian city with an airport on an artificial island — 2015-09-26
• Home to baseball's Orix Buffaloes — 2014-12-05
• Honshu port — 2014-03-09
• Where Sharp Electronics is based — 2014-01-12
• Stomping grounds for Godzilla — 2013-10-13
• Where Sanyo is headquartered — 2012-12-19
• ___-Itami International Airport — 2012-01-08
• Japanese port — 2011-10-10
• City raided in "Godzilla Raids Again" — 2011-09-04
• City of 2 1/2+ million at the mouth of the Yodo River — 2011-07-21
• Honshu metropolis — 2011-03-02
• Home of Kansai International Airport — 2011-02-13
• Where Panasonic and Sanyo are headquartered — 2011-01-27
• Japanese for "large hill" — 2010-04-03
• Japanese port — 2010-01-18
• Japanese financial center — 2009-11-01
• Where Panasonic is headquartered — 2009-10-08
• It was destroyed by Godzilla in "Godzilla Raids Again" — 2009-08-23
• Pitcher Hideo Nomo's birthplace — 2008-12-25
• City of 2 1/2 million at the mouth of the Yodo River — 2008-08-16