Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/September/September 6

September 6:

Events
 * 1976 - Cold War: Soviet air force pilot Lt. Viktor Belenko lands a MiG-25 jet fighter at Hakodate on the island of Hokkaidō in Japan and requests political asylum in the United States.

Births
 * 1928 - Fumihiko Maki, architect, designed the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium and Makuhari Messe
 * 1930 - Akiji Kobayashi (d. 1996), actor
 * 1932 - Hiroyuki Iwaki (d. 2006), drummer and conductor
 * 1939 - Susumu Tonegawa, biologist and immunologist, Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1945 - Go Nagai, illustrator
 * 1963 - Rolly Teranishi, musician and producer
 * 1977 - Kiyoshi Hikawa, singer
 * 1978 - Homare Sawa, footballer
 * 1980 - Yuji Hamano, archer
 * 1981 - Yuki Abe, footballer
 * 1985 - Shin Nagahama, actor and model
 * 1988 - Ray Fujita, French-Japanese actor and musician
 * 2006 - Prince Hisahito of Akishino

Deaths
 * 1511 - Ashikaga Yoshizumi (b. 1481), shogun
 * 1962 - Seiichiro Kashio (b. 1892), tennis player
 * 1998 - Akira Kurosawa (b. 1910), director, producer, and screenwriter