I think I have a link to a Japanese site that talks about it.
Let me see if I can get some info from them.
1025 is thought to be the death date anniversary of the "her" in untitled ~for her~.
http://pinkmarimo.blog64.fc2.com/?m&no=5
Page about 0630 and July 1st. This one connects the theory of 0630 being the day that her parents split up to July 1st, which Ayu has previously explained by Ayu as a special day after 06/30 that she spends with friends.
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Originally Posted by masa
There are two usual summer events to me. One is the party held every year on June 30, the birthday of the owner of this bar (in Tokyo), when many old friends of mine I can't usually see gather here. To me, that is the one and only unhealthy night of the year, from June 30 to July 1st. (Laugh) ...(omission) ... And the other is the event of watching fireworks after gathering at the shop of my acquaintance near the sea in August every year ... ("Zappy" Aug. 2002)
This article makes it clear why the second song is titled strangely as "July 1st." But the scene sung about in this song is not the party place at night but the sea in the daytime. Why? -- In fact, there was one more thing which lead her to make this song. In the interview of "Hamasaki Republic", she and the interviewer were talking as below, looking at a photo of the sea in a magazine.
O: How do you think about the sentence? ("If it's fine tomorrow, let's go to the sea.")
A: Nice. I'm glad to hear someone tell me so, for example. A family member or a friend or a boyfriend. Because if someone tell me so, I'm in his or her future. I'm in his or her tomorrow. I'm glad of that. ("Hamasaki Republic")
The sensitiveness of her heart to feel the human warmth in a commonplace sentence. Maybe the photo and the sentence remained in her memory then, and revived when she was going to make "July 1st", a song of friendship. When the two things which apparently have no relation but are substantially close link together, a poem is born. This is what many poets have related as their own experience of making poems, though she doesn't know it maybe. Her poetic quality is seen well here, too. It can be said that "July 1st" is the type of song she made for the first time as well as "independent." As she herself described it suitably as "though the lyrics are bright, there are some minor parts in the melody, but never lacking in released feelings", I think it's a beautiful song with a thread of sadness in the brightness.
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I have a feeling Ayu had a bit of a double meaning to July 1st though. Or it was just sort of a coverup for the real inspiration behind July 1st.
This line seems to add to the 06/30 connection:
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The pain with the tears shed yesterday are changing
Into tenderness
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We don't know the exact truth but we do know that the song was/is very important to her to the point that she didn't print the Memorial address lyrics for a while.