1931 in Japan

Events in the year 1931 in Japan. == Incumbents == Emperor: Hirohito Prime Minister: Osachi Hamaguchi: until April 14 Wakatsuki Reijirō: April 14 – December 13 Inukai Tsuyoshi: from December 13 === Governors === Aichi Prefecture: starting 20 January: Masao Oka 20 January-21 December: Kosaka Masayasu until 21 December: Yujiro Osaki Akita Prefecture: Koki Hiegata (until 18 December); Takeshi Uchida (starting 18 December) Aomori Prefecture: Migaku Moriya (until 18 December); Teizaburo Miyamoto (starting 18 December) Ehime Prefecture: Koichiro Sasai (until 18 December); Kume Shigeo (starting 18 December) Fukui Prefecture: Tachibana Saitanao (until 18 December); Keizo Ichimura (starting 18 December) Fukushima Prefecture: until 15 April: Koyanagi Makimamoru 15 April-18 December: Goro Kawasaki starting 18 December: Murai Hachiro Gifu Prefecture: until 8 May: Ken Usawa 8 May-18 December: Yoshida Katsutaro starting 18 December: Takehiko Ito Gunma Prefecture: until 27 June: Hotta Kanae 27 June-18 December: Kiichi Harata starting 18 December: Masao Kanazawa Hiroshima Prefecture: until 8 May: Hiroshi Kawabuchi 8 May-18 December: Takekai Shirane starting 18 December: Ryo Chiba Ibaraki Prefecture: until 27 June: Shozo Ushijima 27 June-18 December: Tanaka starting 18 December: Seikichi Kimishima Ishikawa Prefecture: Nakano Kunikazu (until month unknown) Iwate Prefecture: Toyoshiro Kubo (until 18 December); Hidehiko Ishiguro (starting 18 December) Kagawa Prefecture: until 27 June: Susumu Tsuboi 27 June-18 December: Yusai Takahashi starting 18 December: Akira Ito Kanagawa Prefecture: Jiro Yamagata (until month unknown) Kochi Prefecture: until 27 June: Tanaka 27 June-18 December: Tsuboi starting 18 December: Kodora Akamatsu Kumamoto Prefecture: Bunpei Motoyama (until 18 December); Kenichi Yamashita (starting 18 December) Kyoto Prefecture: until October: Sasaki Shinichi October-December: Shinya Kurosaki starting December: Sukenari Yokoyama Mie Prefecture: Keizo Ichimura (until 18 December); Hirose Hisatada (starting 18 December) Miyagi Prefecture: Michio Yuzawa Miyazaki Prefecture: until 18 December: Ariyoshi 18 December-21 December: Kiyoshi Nakarai starting 21 December: Gisuke Kinoshita Nagano Prefecture: Shintaro Suzuki (until 18 December); Ishigaki Kuraji (starting 18 December) Niigata Prefecture: until 2 October: Toyoji Obata 2 October-18 December: Nakano Kunikazu starting 18 December: Obata Toyoji Okinawa Prefecture: Jiro Ino Osaka Prefecture: Saito Munenori (starting month unknown) Saga Prefecture: until 18 December: Inoue 20 January-18 December: Nakarai Kiyoshi starting 18 December: Saburo Hayakawa Saitama Prefecture: until 15 April: Niwa Shichiro 15 April-18 December: Kozo Yamanaka starting 18 December: Umekichi Miyawaki Shiname Prefecture: until 21 August: Keiichi Omori 21 August-18 December: Kanichi Misawa starting 18 December: Rinsaku Yagi Tochigi Prefecture: until 27 January: Harada 20 January-27 December: Asari Saburo starting 27 December: Chokichi Toshima Tokyo: Torataro Shizuka (until 18 October); Hasegawa Hisakazu (starting 18 October) Toyama Prefecture: Kozo Yamanaka (until 15 April); Keiichi Suzuki (starting 15 April) Yamagata Prefecture: until 24 October: Kubota Osamu Kosuke 24 October-18 December: Ken Yamaguchi starting 18 December: Sada Kawamura == Events == March – March Incident March 27 – A real estate brand, Shōei Corporation was founded, as predecessor for Hullic. June 5 – 1931 Empress of Canada stabbings: A man killed 2 and wounded 29 others with a knife aboard the Canadian Pacific Steamships liner RMS Empress of Canada as the ship sailed off Japan. June 27 – Nakamura Incident July 1 – Wanpaoshan Incident September 21 – A Richer Scale magnitude 6.5 earthquake hit in Yorii, Saitama Prefecture. According to Japanese government official confirmed report, killing 16 persons, 146 persons were wounded. October 21 – October Incident November 4 – Resistance at Nenjiang Bridge November 4–18 – Jiangqiao Campaign Unknown date Teikyo Commerce School, later Teikyo University was founded in Tokyo. A time recorder and robot brand, Amano was founded in Yokohama, as predecessor name of Amano Manufacturing. A mail order cram school, Jitsuryoku-Zōshinsha (Ability Promotion), as predecessor of Zōshinsha Holdings (Z-kai) was founded. == Films == Tokyo Chorus == Births == === January–March === January 2 – Toshiki Kaifu, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2022) January 6 – Kaoru Yachigusa, actress (d. 2019) January 20 – Ariyoshi Sawako, writer (d. 1984) January 21 – Yoshiko Kuga, actress (d. 2024) January 28 – Sakyo Komatsu, science fiction writer (d. 2011) February 16 – Ken Takakura, actor (d. 2014) March 7 – Atsuko Ikeda, fourth daughter of Emperor Shōwa March 9 – Masahiro Shinoda, film director (d. 2025) === April–June === April 11 – Koichi Sugiyama, composer and conductor (d. 2021) May 10 – Ichirō Nagai, voice actor (d. 2014) June 22 – Teruyuki Okazaki, black belt in Shotokan Karate (d. 2020) === July–September === July 5 – Ryuzo Sato, economist July 11 – Yasuo Ōtsuka, animator (d. 2021) August 29 – Ichikawa Raizō VIII, actor (d. 1969) August 30 – Jōji Yanami, voice actor September 17 – Ayako Sono, writer (d. 2021) September 21 – Syukuro Manabe, Japanese-American meteorologist and climatologist === October–December === October 24 – Ken Utsui, actor (d. 2014) November 29 – Shintaro Katsu, actor (d. 1997) December 5 – Kyōko Kagawa, actress December 11 – Fujiko Yamamoto, actress December 15 – Shuntarō Tanikawa, poet and translator December 19 – Reiko Sato, actress and dancer (d. 1981) December 31 – Sakata Tōjūrō IV, kabuki actor (d. 2020) === Full date unknown === Miyozo Yamazaki, amateur archaeologist == Deaths == January 27 – Nishinoumi Kajirō II, Sumo wrestler, 25th yokozuna (b. 1880) June 13 – Kitasato Shibasaburō, physician and bacteriologist (b. 1853) June 26 – Yamakawa Kenjirō, physicist, university president (b. 1854) August 2 – Kinue Hitomi, sprinter and long jumper (b. 1907) August 26 – Osachi Hamaguchi, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1870) September 2 – Ichinohe Hyoe, general (b. 1855) November 11 – Shibusawa Eiichi, industrialist (b. 1840) == See also == 1931 in Japanese football List of Japanese films of the 1930s == References ==