Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/October/October 9

October 9:

Events
 * 1942 - The last day of the October Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps forces withdraw back across the Matanikau River after destroying most of the Imperial Japanese Army's 4th Infantry Regiment.

Births
 * 1924 - Hachiro Kasuga (d. 1991), singer
 * 1950 - Yoshiyuki Konishi, Japanese fashion designer
 * 1950  - Reichi Nakaido, singer and guitarist
 * 1962 - Ōnokuni Yasushi, sumo wrestler, the 62nd Yokozuna
 * 1969 - Jun Akiyama, wrestler
 * 1972 - Kōki Miyata, voice actor
 * 1981 - Maasa Takahashi, announcer and host

Deaths
 * 1947 - Yukio Sakurauchi (b. 1888), entrepreneur and politician, cabinet minister in the pre-war Empire of Japan