Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/January/January 9

January 9:

Events
 * 1945 - World War II: The United States invades Luzon in the Japan-occupied Philippines.
 * 2014 - An explosion at a Mitsubishi Materials chemical plant in Yokkaichi, Japan, kills at least five people and injures 17 others.

Births
 * 1624 - Empress Meishō (d. 1696)
 * 1947 - Ittoku Kishibe, actor and musician
 * 1953 - Shigeru So, runner
 * 1953  - Takeshi So, runner
 * 1970 - Masashi Goda, actor
 * 1971 - Yusuke Naora, director and producer
 * 1979 - Tomiko Van, singer-songwriter and actress
 * 1987 - Mao Inoue, actress
 * 1987  - Asami Kai, actress and model

Deaths
 * 1562 - Amago Haruhisa (b. 1514), warlord
 * 1998 - Kenichi Fukui (b. 1918), chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

Film and television
 * 2006 - Saiyūki begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Shingo Katori, Eri Fukatsu, Atsushi Itō, Teruyoshi Uchimura, and Asami Mizukawa
 * 2007 - Himitsu no Hanazono begins airing on Kansai Telecasting Corporation and Fuji Television, starring Yumiko Shaku
 * 2010 - Majisuka Gakuen begins airing on TV Tokyo, starring Atsuko Maeda
 * 2015 - Kaiki Renai Sakusen begins airing on TV Tokyo, starring Kumiko Asō, Maki Sakai, and Tamaki Ogawa