Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/September/September 8
Events
- 1951 - Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.
Births
- 1750 - Tanikaze Kajinosuke (d. 1795), sumo wrestler, the 4th Yokozuna
- 1938 - Kenichi Horie, sailor
- 1948 - Great Kabuki, wrestler
- 1958 - Mitsuru Miyamoto, voice actor
- 1960 - Misako Konno, actress and essayist
- 1960 - Aguri Suzuki, race car driver
- 1963 - Hitoshi Matsumoto, comedian and actor
- 1972 - Tomokazu Seki, voice actor and singer
- 1980 - Teruyuki Moniwa, footballer
- 1987 - Asaya Kimijima, model and actor
Deaths
- 1981 - Hideki Yukawa (b. 1907), physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate