Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/April/April 9

April 9:

Events
 * 702 - Japan's first legal system of measurement is implemented. (Traditional Japanese Date: Eighth Day of the Third Month, 702)
 * 1890 - A ceremony is held for the opening of the first Lake Biwa Canal.
 * 1935 - Three of Minobe Tatsukichi's publications setting forth his theory that the emperor is merely a legal figure who exercises power on behalf of the people in whom sovereignty resides (the imperial institution theory) are outlawed. Minobe eventually quits the House of Peers.
 * 1939 - The first group recruitment train, carrying 580 students looking for work, travels from Akita to Ueno.
 * 1952 - A Japan Airlines passenger plane crashes into Mt. Mihara on the Izu Peninsula, killing 37 people, including entertainer Ōtsuji Shirō.
 * 1981 - An American nuclear submarine collides with a Japanese cargo ship, the Nisshōmaru.
 * 1992 - Singer Fujiyama Ichirō becomes the ninth person to be awarded the National Honor Award (国民栄誉賞).

Births
 * 1972 - Bernard Ackah, German-Japanese martial artist and kick-boxer
 * 1978 - Kousei Amano, actor
 * 1985 - Tomohisa Yamashita, actor and singer

Film and television
 * 2002 - Artificial Beauty begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Ryoko Yonekura