Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/September/September 11

September 11:

Events
 * 1945 - World War II: Liberation of the Japanese-run POW and civilian internee camp at Batu Lintang, Kuching, Sarawak on the island of Borneo by Australian 9th Division forces. Over 2,000 prisoners, including women and children, were due to be executed on September 15.

Births
 * 1182 - Minamoto no Yoriie (d. 1204), shogun
 * 1917 - Kenkichi Iwasawa (d. 1998), mathematician
 * 1960 - Hiroshi Amano, physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1966 - Kiko, Princess Akishino
 * 1986 - Chise Nakamura, actress and model
 * 1987 - Mai Oshima, singer and actress
 * 1989 - Asuka Kuramochi, singer and actress
 * 1992 - Hayato Isomura, actor

Deaths
 * 1680 - Emperor Go-Mizunoo (b. 1596)
 * 1926 - Matsunosuke Onoe (b. 1875), actor and director