Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/August/August 26

August 26:

Births
 * 1937 - Kenji Utsumi (d. 2013), voice actor
 * 1941 - Akiko Wakabayashi, actress
 * 1977 - Saeko Chiba, voice actress and singer
 * 1982 - Akiko Kikuchi, model and actress
 * 1983 - Toshiaki Imae, baseball player

Deaths
 * 1990 - Minoru Honda (b. 1913), astronomer