Events
- 1549 - Jesuit priest Saint Francis Xavier comes ashore at Kagoshima
- 1863 - The Anglo-Satsuma War begins between the Satsuma Domain of Japan and the United Kingdom
- 1869 - Meiji government establishes six ministries below Pardication in the bottom of Cabinet, officer-of-Shinto-Worship, and jurisdiction of Cabinet
- 1945 - World War II: Victory over Japan Day (USA) - Japan surrenders
- 1945 - World War II: The Japanese Fourteenth Area Army is disbanded
- 1961 - Keiyo Road is specified to be the first driveway in Japan
- 1975 - Miki Takeo makes the first official pilgrimage to Yasukuni Shrine by a sitting prime minister on the anniversary of the end of World War II
Births
- 1865 - Mikao Usui (d. 1926), spiritual leader, founded Reiki
- 1877 - Tachiyama Mineemon (d. 1941), sumo wrestler, the 22nd Yokozuna
- 1924 - Yoshirō Muraki (d. 2009), production designer, art director, and fashion designer
- 1982 - Tsuyoshi Hayashi, actor
- 1983 - Yōko Honda, voice actress
- 1994 - Kosuke Hagino, swimmer
- 1995 - Yui Ogura, voice actress and singer
Deaths
- 1945 - Korechika Anami (b. 1887), general