Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/September/September 30

September 30:

Events
 * 1999 - One of Japan's worst nuclear accidents at a uranium reprocessing facility in Tōkai, Ibaraki
 * 2004 - The first images of a live giant squid in its natural habitat are taken 600 miles south of Tokyo

Births
 * 1932 - Shintarō Ishihara, author, playwright, and politician, Governor of Tokyo (d. 2022)
 * 1983 - Reiko Shiota, badminton player
 * 1986 - Takahiro Nishijima, singer and actor
 * 1987 - Rumi Hanai, actress, model, and gymnast

Deaths
 * 1551 - Ōuchi Yoshitaka (b. 1507), daimyo
 * 1946 - Takashi Sakai (b. 1887), lieutenant general in the Imperial Japanese Army, Governor of Hong Kong