Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/September/September 6
Events
- 1976 - Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States.
Births
- 1928 - Fumihiko Maki, architect, designed the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium and Makuhari Messe
- 1930 - Akiji Kobayashi (d. 1996), actor
- 1932 - Hiroyuki Iwaki (d. 2006), drummer and conductor
- 1939 - Susumu Tonegawa, biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1945 - Go Nagai, illustrator
- 1963 - Rolly Teranishi, musician and producer
- 1977 - Kiyoshi Hikawa, singer
- 1978 - Homare Sawa, footballer
- 1980 - Yuji Hamano, archer
- 1981 - Yuki Abe, footballer
- 1985 - Shin Nagahama, actor and model
- 1988 - Ray Fujita, French-Japanese actor and musician
- 2006 - Prince Hisahito of Akishino
Deaths
- 1511 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi (b. 1481), shogun
- 1962 - Seiichiro Kashio (b. 1892), tennis player
- 1998 - Akira Kurosawa (b. 1910), director, producer, and screenwriter