Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/September/September 27

September 27:

Events
 * 1940 - World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
 * 1942 - Last day of the September Matanikau action on Guadalcanal as United States Marine Corps troops barely escape after being surrounded by Japanese forces near the Matanikau River.
 * 1959 - Nearly 5,000 people die on the main Japanese island of Honshū as the result of a typhoon.

Births
 * 808 - Emperor Ninmyō (d. 850)
 * 1544 - Takenaka Shigeharu (d. 1579), samurai
 * 1950 - Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Japanese-American actor and martial artist
 * 1951 - Ren Osugi, actor
 * 1965 - Robert Baldwin, Canadian-Japanese actor
 * 1965  - Ricky Fuji, wrestler
 * 1970 - Yoshiharu Habu, chess player
 * 1980 - Asashōryū Akinori, Mongolian sumo wrestler, the 68th Yokozuna
 * 1988 - Asami Tada, model
 * 1989 - Mikiho Niwa, actress, model, and singer
 * 1991 - Rio Uchida, model and actress

Deaths
 * 1557 - Emperor Go-Nara (b. 1497)
 * 1998 - Narita Brian (b. 1991), race horse
 * 2007 - Kenji Nagai (b. 1957), photographer and journalist

Film and television
 * 2014 - Mother, an autobiographical film starring Kataoka Ainosuke VI