Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/September/September 7

September 7:

Events
 * 1945 - World War II: Japanese forces on Wake Island, which they had held since December of 1941, surrender to U.S. Marines

Births
 * 1641 - Tokugawa Ietsuna (d. 1680), shogun
 * 1915 - Kiyoshi Itō (d. 2008), mathematician and academic
 * 1974 - Hiroki Takahashi, voice actor and singer
 * 1975 - Norifumi Abe (d. 2007), motorcycle racer
 * 1979 - Kozue Yoshizumi, voice actress
 * 1982 - Ryoko Shiraishi, voice actress
 * 1992 - Suzuka Morita, model and actress
 * 1994 - Kento Yamazaki, actor and model

Deaths
 * 1939 - Kyōka Izumi (b. 1873), author, poet, and playwright
 * 1962 - Eiji Yoshikawa (b. 1892), author