Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/September/September 27
Events
- 1940 - World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
- 1942 - Last day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps troops barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces near the Matanikau River.
- 1959 - Nearly 5,000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshū as the result of a typhoon.
Births
- 808 - Emperor Ninmyō (d. 850)
- 1544 - Takenaka Shigeharu (d. 1579), samurai
- 1950 - Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Japanese-American actor and martial artist
- 1951 - Ren Osugi, actor
- 1965 - Robert Baldwin, Canadian-Japanese actor
- 1965 - Ricky Fuji, wrestler
- 1970 - Yoshiharu Habu, chess player
- 1980 - Asashōryū Akinori, Mongolian sumo wrestler, the 68th Yokozuna
- 1988 - Asami Tada, model
- 1989 - Mikiho Niwa, actress, model, and singer
- 1991 - Rio Uchida, model and actress
Deaths
- 1557 - Emperor Go-Nara (b. 1497)
- 1998 - Narita Brian (b. 1991), race horse
- 2007 - Kenji Nagai (b. 1957), photographer and journalist
Film and television