Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/September/September 8

September 8:

Events
 * 1951 - Treaty of San Francisco: In San Francisco, California, 48 nations sign a peace treaty with Japan in formal recognition of the end of the Pacific War.

Births
 * 1750 - Tanikaze Kajinosuke (d. 1795), sumo wrestler, the 4th Yokozuna
 * 1938 - Kenichi Horie, sailor
 * 1948 - Great Kabuki, wrestler
 * 1958 - Mitsuru Miyamoto, voice actor
 * 1960 - Misako Konno, actress and essayist
 * 1960  - Aguri Suzuki, race car driver
 * 1963 - Hitoshi Matsumoto, comedian and actor
 * 1972 - Tomokazu Seki, voice actor and singer
 * 1980 - Teruyuki Moniwa, footballer
 * 1987 - Asaya Kimijima, model and actor

Deaths
 * 1981 - Hideki Yukawa (b. 1907), physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate