1929 in Japan

none 1929 Events in the year 1929 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 4 (昭和4年) in the Japanese calendar. Incumbents Emperor: HirohitoHirohito Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hirohito Encyclopedia Britannica 27 March 2019 en Prime Minister: Tanaka Giichi: until July 2 Osachi Hamaguchi: from July 2 Governors Aichi Prefecture: Toyoji Obata (until 5 July); Masao Oka (starting 5 July) Akita Prefecture: Iwao Koinuma (until 5 January); Shinji Kikuchi (starting 5 January) Aomori Prefecture: until 30 January: Tetsuzo Yoshimura 30 January-5 July: Yujiro Shinjo starting 5 July: Mitsuo Hirai Ehime Prefecture: Keizo Ichimura (until 8 November); Shin Kinoshita (starting 8 November) Fukui Prefecture: Joko Obama Fukuoka Prefecture: Saito Morikuni (starting month unknown) Fukushima Prefecture: Aid Kiyoo (until 5 July); Koyanagi Makimamoru (starting 5 July) Gifu Prefecture: Masao Kanazawa (until 5 July); Ken Usawa (starting 5 July) Gunma Prefecture: Omori Keiichi (until 10 September); Hotta Kanae (starting 10 September) Hiroshima Prefecture: Masao Kishimoto (until 5 July); Hiroshi Kawabuchi (starting 5 July) Ibaraki Prefecture: Jiro Morioka (until 5 July); Shozo Ushijima (starting 5 July) Ishikawa Prefecture: Nakano Kunikazu (starting month unknown) Iwate Prefecture: Tojiro Io (until 5 July); Shichiro Niwa (starting 5 July) Kagawa Prefecture: Toshio Motoda (until 5 July); Susumu Tsuboi (starting 5 July) Kanagawa Prefecture: Ikeda Hiroshi (until month unknown); Jiro Yamagata (starting month unknown) Kochi Prefecture: Ichiro Oshima (until 5 July); Tanaka (starting 5 July) Kumamoto Prefecture: Saito Munenori (until month unknown); Omori Kichigoro (starting month unknown) Kyoto Prefecture: Shigeyoshi Omihara (until July); Shinichi Sagami (starting July) Mie Prefecture: Iori Hanada (until 8 November); Keizo Ichimura (starting 8 November) Miyagi Prefecture: Katorataro Ushizu (until 9 October); Michio Yuzawa (starting 9 October) Miyazaki Prefecture: Kunitoshi Yamaoka (until 5 July); Kaoru Ishida (starting 5 July) Nagano Prefecture: Ryo Chiba (until 5 July); Shintaro Suzuki (starting 5 July) Niigata Prefecture: Ozaki Yujiro (until 5 July); Takeo Mimatsu (starting 5 July) Okayama Prefecture: Masao Kishimoto (until month unknown); Minabe Choji (starting month unknown) Okinawa Prefecture: Chōhei Hosokawa (until 5 July); Masao Moriya (starting 5 July) Osaka Prefecture: Yuichiro Chikaraishi Saitama Prefecture: until 6 February: Miyawaki Umekichi 6 February-5 July: Shirane Takekai starting 5 July: Chohei Hosokawa Shiname Prefecture: Rinsaku Yagi Tochigi Prefecture: until 5 July: Takeichi Fujiyama 5 July-8 November: Jiro Morioka starting 8 November: Harada Tokyo: until 9 October: Hiroshi Hiratsuka 5 July-9 October: Kenzo Kakagawa starting 9 October: Torataro Shizuka Toyama Prefecture: Shirane Takesuke (until 8 February); Kozo Yamanaka (starting 8 February) Yamagata Prefecture: Shinohara Eitaro (until 9 October); Kubota Osamu Kosuke (starting 9 October) Events January 27 – An auto parts brand, Akebono Brake was founded, as predecessor name of Akebono Asbest Manufacturing.May 2020 April 1 – openings of Kugenuma-Kaigan Station, Satte Station and Tochigi Station April 15 – Hankyu Department Store Osaka Umeda officially open in Kita-ku, Osaka.June 2020 October 1 – opening of Tōbu-Nikkō Station November 17 – opening of Iwatsuki Station December 15 – opening of Bungo-Mori Station opening of the Beppu Rakutenchi Cable Line founded of Pola Orbis, as predecessor name was Pola Chemical Industries in Shizuoka City.May 2020 Films Akeyuku Sora Days of Youth Sakanaya Honda Births right|thumb|150px|Isamu Akasaki, Isamu Akasaki, Nobel Prize-winning Japanese physicist and engineer right|thumb|150px|Yayoi Kusama, Japanese visual artist right|thumb|150px|Miyoshi Umeki, Japanese actress right|thumb|150px|Tomoko Naraoka, Japanese actress, voice actress, and narrator right|thumb|150px|Toshiko Akiyoshi, Japanese jazz musician, composer/arranger, pianist, and bandleader January–March January 1 Akihiko Okamura, photographer (d. 1985) Haruo Nakajima, actor, stuntman, and choreographer (d. 2017) January 15 Teizo Matsumura, composer and poet (d. 2007) Wataru Kubo, politician (d. 2003) January 16 – Shigeru Koyama, actor (d. 2017) January 17 – Hideo Murata, rōkyoku and enka singer (d. 2002) January 20 – Masaharu Kawakatsu, zoologist January 23 – Kenji Suzuki, television announcer (d. 2024) January 24 – Katsuo Nishida, long-distance runner (d. 2001) January 26 – Sumiteru Taniguchi, survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bombing, and anti–nuclear weapons activist (d. 2017) January 30 – Isamu Akasaki, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and engineer (d. 2021) February 1 – Jinzō Toriumi, screenwriter (d. 2008) February 3 – Koichi Saito, film director (d. 2009) February 5 – Taitetsu Unno, scholar, writer, and lecturer (d. 2014) February 6 – Masaharu Nagashima, dermatologist and the first professor of dermatology at Kyorin University (d. 2010) February 7 – Nobuyoshi Sadanaga, long-distance runner (d. 2003) February 13 Frankie Sakai, comedian, actor, and musician (d. 1996) Sen-itiroh Hakomori, a Japanese-American biochemist (d. 2020) February 14 Hirokazu Kobayashi, aikidoka (d. 1998) Masamoto Yashiro, businessman February 15 – Tachikawa Sumito, baritone singer and radio host presenter (d. 1985) February 17 – Shosaku Numa, neuroscientist (d. 1992) February 18 – Takako Saito, visual artist (d. 2025) February 19 – Kiyoshi Awazu, graphic designer (d. 2009) February 20 – Toshiro Mayuzumi, music composer (d. 1997) February 26 – Hideo Gosha, director and screenwriter (d. 1992) March 3 – Hajime Sato, film director (d. 1995) March 5 – Takao Saito, cinematographer (d. 2014) March 20 – Kazue Takahashi, voice actress (d. 1999) March 22 – Yayoi Kusama, artist (d. 2026) March 28 – Takehiro Irokawa, writer (d. 1989) April–June April 3 Masato Yamanouchi, voice actor (d. 2003) Shinichiro Sakurai, automotive engineer (d. 2011) April 6 – Shoichi Ozawa, actor, radio host and singer (d. 2012) April 8 – Eiji Kitamura, jazz clarinetist and tenor saxophonist April 9 – Hashizo Okawa, film actor (d. 1984) April 10 – Yozo Aoki, football player (d. 2014) April 11 – Hiroko Takenishi, fiction writer and literary critic April 18 – Masayuki Ishii, sailor (d. 2014) April 20 – Kazumasa Nagai, printmaker and graphic designer April 22 – Otohiko Kaga, writer (d. 2023) April 26 – Tsurugamine Akio, sumo wrestler (d. 2006) May 4 – Noboru Nakaya, actor (d. 2006) May 8 – Miyoshi Umeki, actress (d. 2007) May 24 – Takeshi Kato, actor and voice actor (d. 2015) June 4 – Nakamura Tomijūrō V, Kabuki actor (d. 2011) June 7 – Setsuko Wakayama, actress (d. 1985) June 14 – Keizo Hino, writer (d. 2002) June 29 – Michio Mamiya, composer (d. 2024) July–September July 5 – Chikao Ohtsuka, voice actor (d. 2015) July 17 – Eiichi Kudo, film director (d. 2000) July 22 – Kiichirō Furukawa, astronomer (d. 2016) July 28 – Shozo Sasahara, freestyle wrestler (d. 2023) August 4 – Kōhei Miyauchi, actor and voice actor (d. 1995) August 11 Akira Hayasaka, writer (d. 2017) Tetsuo Kondo, politician (d. 2010) August 12 – Joji Yuasa, music composer (d. 2024) August 18 Hidenobu Takahide, politician (d. 2002) Tetsutaro Murano, director (d. 2020) August 20 – Yasuro Kikuchi, amateur Go player (d. 2021) August 21 – Susumu Nakanishi, linguist August 22 – Satoko Kitahara, Japanese Roman Catholic woman (d. 1958) August 24 – Ryōko Akamatsu, politician (d. 2024) August 31 – Osamu Yamaji, professional footballer (d. 2021) September 1 – Tomisaburo Wakayama, actor (d. 1992) September 10 – Akio Yashiro, composer (d. 1976) September 11 – Akira Kono, Olympic gymnast (d. 1995) September 19 – Kojiro Kusanagi, actor (d. 2007) September 22 – Kiyoko Sugimura, athlete September 29 – Tōru Ōhira, voice actor (d. 2016) September 30 – Kazuko, Princess Taka (Now Kazuko Takatsukasa), daughter of Emperor Hirohito and oldest sister of Emperor Emeritus Akihito (d. 1989) October–December October 4 – Chokei Kishaba, Okinawan martial artist master (d. 2000) October 5 – Takeshi Ito, economist and peace activist (d. 2000) October 14 – Nagatoshi Sakamoto, film actor (d. 2024) October 23 – Akiko Kawarai, artist, jewellery designer, and composer October 25 Hosei Norota, politician (d. 2019) Kazuo Ikehiro, film director (d. 2025) November 7 – Akio Suzuki, medical scientist, educator (d. 2010) November 13 – Asashio Tarō III, professional sumo wrestler and rikishi (d. 1988) November 15 – Albert Ando, Japanese–American economist (d. 2002) November 17 – Gorō Naya, voice actor (d. 2013) November 18 – Kiyoshi Kawakubo, voice actor (d. 2019) November 28 – Kuniko Mukōda, screenwriter (d. 1981) December 1 Hidesaburo Hanafusa, virologist (d. 2009) Tomoko Naraoka, actress and narrator (d. 2023) December 7 – Keijiro Kaitoku, sailor (d. 1997) December 12 – Toshiko Akiyoshi, jazz composer/arranger, bandleader and pianist December 14 – Hiroshi Tada, aikido teacher December 15 – Jiro Kikkawa, Japanese–Australian ornithologist (d. 2016) Deaths February 10 – Nagai Nagayoshi, chemist and pharmacologist (b. 1844) March 22 – Inoue Yoshika, Marshal Admiral (b. 1845) April 13 – Gotō Shinpei, politician and scouting pioneer (b. 1857) April 27 – Hōjō Tokiyuki, educator, mathematician and politician (b. 1858) June 29 – Prince Kuniyoshi Kuni, prince and field marshalFujitani, T; Cox, Alvin D (1998). Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan. University of California Press. 0-520-21371-8. (b. 1873) July 25 – Shōzō Makino silent film director and producer (b. 1878) August 16 – Tsuda Umeko, educator (b. 1864) August 26 – Ernest Mason Satow, British scholar, diplomat and Japanologist (b. 1843) September 29 – Tanaka Giichi, general and Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1864) October 31 – Senshō Murakami, Buddhist scholar and priest November 22 – Kamakichi Kishinouye, marine biologist and cnidariologist (b. 1867) December 20 – Ryūsei Kishida, painter (b. 1891) See also List of Japanese films of the 1920s References References 1929 in Category:1920s in Japan Japan Category:1929 in Asia