Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/September/September 12

September 12:

Events
 * 1942 - World War II: First day of the Battle of Edson's Ridge during the Guadalcanal campaign.  U.S. Marines protecting Henderson Field on Guadalcanal are attacked by Imperial Japanese Army forces.
 * 2007 - Shinzō Abe announced he resigns as Prime Minister of Japan.

Births
 * 1875 - Matsunosuke Onoe (d. 1926), actor and director
 * 1894 - Kyuichi Tokuda (d. 1953), politician, Chairman of the Japanese Communist Party
 * 1913 - Eiji Toyoda (d. 2013), businessman
 * 1969 - Shigeki Maruyama, golfer
 * 1974 - Kenichi Suzumura, voice actor and singer-songwriter
 * 1982 - Nana Ozaki, model
 * 1986 - Yuto Nagatomo, footballer

Deaths
 * 1945 - Hajime Sugiyama (b. 1880), general