Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/May/May 8
Events
- 1942 - World War II: The Battle of the Coral Sea comes to an end with Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft carrier aircraft attacking and sinking the United States Navy aircraft carrier USS Lexington. The battle marks the first time in the naval history that two enemy fleets fight without visual contact between warring ships.
Births
- 1929 - Miyoshi Umeki (d. 2007), Japanese-American actress and singer
- 1936 - Kazuo Koike, author
- 1957 - Rino Katase, actress
- 1959 - Ikue Sakakibara, actress and singer
- 1961 - Akira Taue, wrestler
- 1962 - Masaki Terasoma, actor and voice actor
- 1969 - Akebono Tarō, American-Japanese sumo wrestler, the 64th Yokozuna
- 1973 - Hiromu Arakawa, author and illustrator
- 1977 - Chiaki Takahashi, model and voice actress
- 1981 - Yasuko Tajima, swimmer