Portal:Japan/Anniversaries/October/October 11
Events
- 1942 - World War II: The Battle of Cape Esperance begins
- 1943 - World War II: The USS Wahoo submarine is sunk off the coast of Cape Sōya in the La Pérouse Strait
- 1997 - The inaugural event of Pride Fighting Championships is held in the Tokyo Dome
- 2005 - The city of Hokota, Ibaraki is created from the merger of several towns and villages
Births
- 1901 - Masanobu Tsuji (d. ca.1961), politician, author, and tactician of the Imperial Japanese Army
- 1946 - Sawao Kato, gymnast and educator
- 1954 - Atsuko Takahata, actress and voice actress
- 1973 - Takeshi Kaneshiro, actor and singer
- 1974 - Kane Kosugi, American-Japanese martial artist and actor
- 1974 - Fumika Suzuki, voice actress, model, and race queen
- 1977 - Shūhei Izumi, actor
- 1978 - Takuya Kawaguchi, footballer
- 1979 - Reiko Takagaki, model and actress
- 1980 - Motohiro Hata, singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1980 - Tomokazu Sugita, voice actor
- 1985 - Aya Kiguchi, model
- 1988 - Rika Izumi, model, actress, and singer
Film and television
- 1999 - Ainori begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Masami Hisamoto, Kōji Imada, and Haruhiko Katō
- 2005 - 1 Litre no Namida begins airing on Fuji Television, starring Erika Sawajiri and Ryō Nishikido
- 2014 - Cape Nostalgia, a drama film starring Sayuri Yoshinaga, Hiroshi Abe, Yūko Takeuchi, and Shōfukutei Tsurube II
- 2015 - Angel Heart begins airing on Nippon TV, starring Takaya Kamikawa, Ayaka Miyoshi, and Saki Aibu