Events in the year 1929 in

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. It corresponds to

Shōwa Shōwa most commonly refers to: * Hirohito (1901–1989), the 124th Emperor of Japan, known posthumously as Emperor Shōwa ** Shōwa era (昭和), the era of Hirohito from 1926 to 1989 * Showa Corporation, a Japanese suspension and shock manufactu ...

4 (昭和4年) in the

Japanese calendar Japanese calendar types have included a range of official and unofficial systems. At present, Japan uses the Gregorian calendar together with year designations stating the Japanese era name, year of the reign of the current Emperor. The written f ...

Incumbents

Emperor The word ''emperor'' (from , via ) can mean the male ruler of an empire. ''Empress'', the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife (empress consort), mother/grandmother (empress dowager/grand empress dowager), or a woman who rules ...

Hirohito , Posthumous name, posthumously honored as , was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, from 25 December 1926 until Death and state funeral of Hirohito, his death in 1989. He remains Japan's longest-reigni ...

Prime Minister A prime minister or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. A prime minister is not the head of state, but r ...

: **

Tanaka Giichi Baron was a Japanese general and politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan from 1927 to 1929. Born to a ''samurai'' family in the Chōshū Domain, Tanaka became an officer in the Imperial Japanese Army and rose through the ranks. He se ...

: until July 2 **

Osachi Hamaguchi Hamaguchi Osachi (Kyūjitai: ; Shinjitai: , 1 April 1870 – 26 August 1931) was a Japanese politician who was Prime Minister of Japan from 1929 to 1931. Nicknamed the due to his dignified demeanor and mane-like hair, Hamaguchi served as leadin ...

: from July 2

Governors

Aichi Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Aichi Prefecture has a population of 7,461,111 () and a geographic area of with a population density of . Aichi Prefecture borders Mie Prefecture to the ...

: Toyoji Obata (until 5 July); Masao Oka (starting 5 July) *Akita Prefecture: Iwao Koinuma (until 5 January); Shinji Kikuchi (starting 5 January) *

Aomori Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan in the Tōhoku region. The prefecture's capital, largest city, and namesake is the city of Aomori (city), Aomori. Aomori is the northernmost prefecture on Japan's main island, Honshu, and is border ...

: ** until 30 January: Tetsuzo Yoshimura ** 30 January-5 July: Yujiro Shinjo ** starting 5 July:

Mitsuo Hirai Mitsuo (written: , , , , , , , , , or in hiragana) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: * Mitsuo Aoki (1914–2010), American theologian *, Japanese naval aviator * Mitsuo Fujikura, Japanese mixed martial art ...

*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 In international relations, aid (also known as international aid, overseas aid, foreign aid, economic aid or foreign assistance) is – from the perspective of governments – a voluntary transfer of resources from one country to another. The ...

(until 5 July);

Koyanagi Makimamoru Koyanagi (written: 小柳 lit. "small willow") is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese sumo wrestler *, Japanese actress and singer *, Japanese footballer *, Imperial Japanese Navy admiral *, Japanese diver *, Ja ...

(starting 5 July) *Gifu Prefecture:

Masao Kanazawa Masao (written: 正雄, 正夫, 正生, 正男, 正郎, 雅雄, 雅央, 雅夫, 雅勇, 雅男, 昌雄, 昌夫, 昌男, 昌朗, 昌郎, 昌大, 政雄, 政夫, 政男, 政於, 征夫, 優夫, 聖雄, 利生, 将雄, 将夫 or 眞男) is a masculine ...

(until 5 July);

Ken Usawa Ken or KEN may refer to: Entertainment * ''Ken'' (album), a 2017 album by Canadian indie rock band Destroyer * ''Ken'' (film), a 1965 Japanese film * ''Ken'' (magazine), a large-format political magazine * Ken Masters, a main character in th ...

(starting 5 July) *Gunma Prefecture:

Omori Keiichi Ōmori or Omori may refer to: Places * Ōmori is a district located a few kilometres south of Shinagawa, Tokyo, Japan accessed by rail via the Keihin-Tohoku Line, Keihin Tohoku line, or by road via Japan National Route 15, Dai Ichi Keihin. ...

(until 10 September);

Hotta Kanae Hotta (written: ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *, Japanese model and television personality *, Japanese footballer *, Japanese ''daimyō'' *, Japanese ''daimyō'' *, Japanese ''daimyō'' *, Japanese ''daimyō'' *, ...

(starting 10 September) * Hiroshima Prefecture:

Masao Kishimoto Masao Kishimoto () (October 1881 – May 20, 1963) was Director of the Karafuto Agency (December 17, 1931 – July 5, 1932). He was Governor of Akita Prefecture (1922–1924), Yamagata Prefecture (1924), Okayama Prefecture is a Prefectures of J ...

(until 5 July);

Hiroshi Kawabuchi Hiroshi Kawabuchi (August 15, 1883 – October 1, 1946) was a Japanese politician who served as governor of Hiroshima Prefecture from July 1929 to May 1931. He was governor of Fukushima Prefecture (1925-1927) and Fukuoka Prefecture (1931). He was ...

(starting 5 July) *

Ibaraki Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Ibaraki Prefecture has a population of 2,828,086 (1 July 2023) and has a geographic area of . Ibaraki Prefecture borders Fukushima Prefecture to the north, ...

Jiro Morioka Jiro may refer to: *Jiro (given name), including people with the name *Jiro (musician) (born 1972), Japanese rock musician *Jiro Ono (chef) (born 1925), Japanese sushi chef *Jiro (software), a computer storage management technology *Jiro (dog) Jiro ...

(until 5 July); Shozo Ushijima (starting 5 July) *

Ishikawa Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu island. Ishikawa Prefecture has a population of 1,096,721 (1 January 2025) and has a geographic area of 4,186 Square kilometre, km2 (1,616 sq mi). Ishikawa Pr ...

Nakano Kunikazu Nakano may refer to: * Nakano, Tokyo * Nakano, Nagano * Nakano (surname) * Nakano Corporation , is a Japanese multinational general construction contractor engaging in design, construction, civil engineering, technical assistance, and real estat ...

(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 is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Kanagawa Prefecture is the List of Japanese prefectures by population, second-most populous prefecture of Japan at 9,221,129 (1 April 2022) and third-dens ...

: Ikeda Hiroshi (until month unknown);

Jiro Yamagata Jiro Yamagata (January 6, 1881 – January 9, 1936) was a Japanese politician who served as governor of Hiroshima Prefecture from October 1923 to September 1925. He was governor of Ishikawa Prefecture (1922-1923), Hyōgo Prefecture (1925-1927) an ...

(starting month unknown) *Kochi Prefecture: Ichiro Oshima (until 5 July);

Tanaka is the fourth most common Japanese surname. It is typically written with the kanji for . Less common variants include , , , , and . People with the surname *, Japanese musician formerly known as Boku no Lyric no Bōyomi *, Japanese voice actres ...

(starting 5 July) *

Kumamoto Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Kumamoto Prefecture has a population of 1,748,134 () and has a geographic area of . Kumamoto Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the north, Ōita Prefecture t ...

: Saito Munenori (until month unknown); Omori Kichigoro (starting month unknown) *

Kyoto Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Kyoto Prefecture has a population of 2,561,358 () and has a geographic area of . Kyoto Prefecture borders Fukui Prefecture to the northeast, Shiga Prefecture ...

: Shigeyoshi Omihara (until July); Shinichi Sagami (starting July) *Mie Prefecture:

Iori Hanada Iori is a personal name in Japanese language, Japanese and in Welsh language, Welsh (where it is a diminutive of Iorwerth). People *, famed swordsman from the Edo period of Japan *, Japanese singer and voice actress *, Japanese baseball catc ...

(until 8 November); Keizo Ichimura (starting 8 November) *

Miyagi Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Miyagi Prefecture has a population of 2,265,724 (1 August 2023) and has a geographic area of . Miyagi Prefecture borders Iwate Prefecture to the north, Akit ...

: Katorataro Ushizu (until 9 October);

Michio Yuzawa was a bureaucrat and cabinet minister in early Shōwa period Japan. Biography Yuzawa was born in Kamitsuga District, Tochigi in what is now part of the city of Kanuma as the son of a ''kannushi'' (Shinto priest). After his graduation in 1912 ...

(starting 9 October) *Miyazaki Prefecture: Kunitoshi Yamaoka (until 5 July);

Kaoru Ishida Kaoru is a Japanese given name for males and females. Name Meanings The name's meaning varies depending on its written form: *薫/郁 — "fragrance", common for both males and females *馨/香 — "fragrance", more common for females *� ...

(starting 5 July) *

Nagano Prefecture is a Landlocked country, landlocked Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu. Nagano Prefecture has a population of 2,007,682 () and has a geographic area of . Nagano Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture ...

Ryo Chiba Ryo Chiba (March 2, 1884 – November 8, 1963) was a Japanese politician who served as governor of Hiroshima Prefecture from Dec. 1931 to June 1932. He was governor of Nagano Prefecture (1927–1929) and Niigata Prefecture is a Prefectures ...

(until 5 July); Shintaro Suzuki (starting 5 July) *

Niigata Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture in the Chūbu region of Honshu of Japan. Niigata Prefecture has a population of 2,131,009 (1 July 2023) and is the List of Japanese prefectures by area, fifth-largest prefecture of Japan by geographic area ...

: Ozaki Yujiro (until 5 July); Takeo Mimatsu (starting 5 July) *

Okayama Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Okayama Prefecture has a population of 1,826,059 (1 February 2025) and has a geographic area of 7,114 Square kilometre, km2 (2,746 sq mi). Okayama Prefecture ...

(until month unknown); Minabe Choji (starting month unknown) *

Okinawa Prefecture is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan. It consists of three main island groups—the Okinawa Islands, the Sakishima Islands, and the Daitō Islands—spread across a maritime zone approximately 1,000 kilometers east to west an ...

: Chōhei Hosokawa (until 5 July);

Masao Moriya Masao (written: 正雄, 正夫, 正生, 正男, 正郎, 雅雄, 雅央, 雅夫, 雅勇, 雅男, 昌雄, 昌夫, 昌男, 昌朗, 昌郎, 昌大, 政雄, 政夫, 政男, 政於, 征夫, 優夫, 聖雄, 利生, 将雄, 将夫 or 眞男) is a masculine ...

(starting 5 July) *

Osaka Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Osaka Prefecture has a population of 8,778,035 () and has a geographic area of . Osaka Prefecture borders Hyōgo Prefecture to the northwest, Kyoto Prefecture to the north, Nara ...

: Yuichiro Chikaraishi *

Saitama Prefecture is a Landlocked country, landlocked Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Saitama Prefecture has a population of 7,338,536 (January 1, 2020) and has a geographic area of 3,797 Square kilometre, km2 ( ...

: ** 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:

** starting 8 November: Harada *

Tokyo Tokyo, officially the Tokyo Metropolis, is the capital of Japan, capital and List of cities in Japan, most populous city in Japan. With a population of over 14 million in the city proper in 2023, it is List of largest cities, one of the most ...

: ** 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 Shinohara (written: ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Chie Shinohara, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese actor and voice actor *Emi Shinohara (born 1963), Japanese voice actor *Futoshi Shinohara (born 1962), Japanese ...

(until 9 October); Kubota Osamu Kosuke (starting 9 October)

Events

*January 27 – An

auto parts This is a list of auto parts, which are manufactured components of automobiles. This list reflects both fossil-fueled cars (using internal combustion engines) and electric vehicles; the list is not exhaustive. Many of these parts are also used o ...

brand, Akebono Brake was founded, as predecessor name of Akebono Asbest Manufacturing. *April 1 - openings of Kugenuma-Kaigan Station, Satte Station and

Tochigi Station is a railway station in the city of Tochigi, Tochigi Prefecture. Japan, operated jointly by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and the private railway operator Tobu Railway. Lines Tochigi Station is served by the Tōbu Nikkō Line, and i ...

*April 15 – Hankyu Department Store Osaka Umeda officially open in

Kita-ku, Osaka is one of 24 wards of Japan, wards of Osaka in Japan. Incidents and accidents * 1970 Tenroku gas explosion * 2021 Osaka building fire Notable locations Kita-ku, particularly the Umeda area surrounding Osaka Station, is one of the main comm ...

. *October 1 - opening of Tōbu-Nikkō Station *November 17 - opening of

Iwatsuki Station is a passenger railway station located in Iwatsuki-ku, Saitama, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Tōbu Railway. The station is numbered "TD-06". Lines Iwatsuki Station is served by the Tōbu Urban Park Line (formerly known as th ...

*December 15 - opening of

Bungo-Mori Station is a passenger railway station located in the town of Kusu, Ōita Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR Kyushu. Lines The station is served by the Kyūdai Main Line and is located 73.2 km from the starting point of the line at . Layou ...

*opening of the Beppu Rakutenchi Cable Line *founded of Pola Orbis, as predecessor name was Pola Chemical Industries in

Shizuoka City is the capital city of Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan, and the prefecture's second-largest city in both population and area. It has been populated since prehistoric times. the city had an estimated population of 677,867 in 106,087 households, and a ...

Films

* Akeyuku Sora * Days of Youth * Sakanaya Honda

Births

*January 1 –

Haruo Nakajima was a Japanese actor and stuntman. A pioneer of suit acting, he is best known for playing Godzilla in 12 consecutive films, starting from the original ''Godzilla'' (1954) until '' Godzilla vs. Gigan'' (1972). Nakajima also played various other ...

, actor, stuntman, and choreographer (d.

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

) *January 16 – Shigeru Koyama, actor (d. 2017) *January 20 –

Masaharu Kawakatsu is a Japanese zoologist known for his studies on the taxonomy and ecology of planarians. Life Masaharu Kawakatsu was born in 1929 in the Asahi, Hokkaido, Asahi village, Kameoka town, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, son of Masakazu Kawakatsu, a squir ...

, zoologist *January 23 – Kenji Suzuki, announcer *January 26 –

Sumiteru Taniguchi was a Japanese anti-nuclear activist and survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, who was chairman of the Nagasaki Council of A-Bomb Sufferers. Early life Taniguchi Sumiteru was born in Fukuoka, Japan in 1929. His mother died when he w ...

, survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bombing, and anti–nuclear weapons activist (d.

) *January 30 –

Isamu Akasaki was a Japanese engineer and physicist, specializing in the field of semiconductor technology and Nobel Prize laureate, best known for inventing the bright gallium nitride (GaN) p-n junction blue LED in 1989 and subsequently the high-brightness G ...

, physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d.

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

) *February 13 –

Frankie Sakai (13 February 1929 – 10 June 1996) was a Japanese comedian, actor, and musician. Career From his days at Keio University, Sakai worked as a jazz drummer at American Army camps during the Occupation of Japan, often doing comic routines with his ...

, comedian, actor, and musician (d.

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

) *February 14 ** Hirokazu Kobayashi,

aikidoka Aikidoka (合気道家'' aikidōka'') is a Japanese term for a master-level practitioner of the martial art Aikido. The term is rarely heard among native speakers of Japanese, in spite of its common use as a loanword in other countries. Etymol ...

(d.

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

) ** Masamoto Yashiro, businessman *March 20 –

Kazue Takahashi , known by the stage name , was a Japanese actress and voice actress. Kazue was best known as the voice of Shoutarou Kaneda ("Jimmy Sparks") in ''Tetsujin 28-go'' (" Gigantor"). She debuted in 1949. Kazue was also known for roles in Kaiju Booska ...

, voice actress (d.

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

) *March 22 –

Yayoi Kusama is a Japanese contemporary artist who works primarily in sculpture and Installation art, installation, and she is also active in painting, performance art, performance, video art, Fashion design, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts. Her wo ...

, artist *March 28 – Takehiro Irokawa, writer (d.

1989 1989 was a turning point in political history with the "Revolutions of 1989" which ended communism in Eastern Bloc of Europe, starting in Poland and Hungary, with experiments in power-sharing coming to a head with the opening of the Berlin W ...

) *April 3 –

Shinichiro Sakurai was a Japanese engineer inducted into the Japan Automotive Hall of FameTh ...

, automotive engineer (d.

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

) *April 6 –

Shoichi Ozawa was a Japanese actor, radio host, singer, and prominent researcher and expert on Japanese folk art. He also founded the Shabondama-za theater company. Ozawa, who was born in Tokyo, graduated from Waseda University. He began acting after college ...

, actor, radio host and singer (d.

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

) *April 10 –

Yozo Aoki was a Japanese football player. He played for the Japan national team. Club career Aoki was born on April 10, 1929. He played for Chiyoda Life. National team career On January 5, 1955, he debuted for the Japan national team against Burma ...

, football player (d.

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

) *May 8 –

Miyoshi Umeki was a Japanese American singer and actress.Bernstein, Adam"Actress Miyoshi Umeki, 78, Dies of Cancer" ''The Washington Post''. 5 September 2007. Umeki was nominated for the Tony Award and Golden Globe Award and was the first East Asia-born woman ...

, actress (d.

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

) *June 1 –

Tatsuro Toyoda was the brother of Shoichiro and the son of Toyota Motor Corporation founder, Kiichiro Toyoda. Non-TMC posts * Intl. trustee, International House (1991–2017) * Honorary consul (Nagoya), Denmark (1991–2017) * Representative director, ...

, businessman (d.

) *June 4 –

Nakamura Tomijūrō V was a Japanese Kabuki actor and Living National Treasures of Japan. Tomijūrō work in Kabuki included the role of Benkei, Musashibō Benkei, a Japanese warrior monk, in the drama, Kanjinchō. Outside Japan, Tomijūrō toured performed in the Uni ...

Kabuki is a classical form of Theatre of Japan, Japanese theatre, mixing dramatic performance with Japanese traditional dance, traditional dance. Kabuki theatre is known for its heavily stylised performances, its glamorous, highly decorated costumes ...

actor (d. 2011) *July 5 –

Chikao Ohtsuka was a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator. He was most known for the roles of Captain Hook ('' Peter Pan: The Animated Series'' and '' Disney's Peter Pan''), Dick Dastardly (''Wacky Races'' and ''Dastardly and Muttley in Their Flying Machine ...

, voice actor (d.

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

) *September 29 –

Tōru Ōhira was a Japanese narrator and voice actor from the Tokyo Metropolitan Area. He was the founder of Ōhira Production and was also attached to 81 Produce. One of his best-known roles was the dub voice of Darth Vader in '' Star Wars'', on the s ...

, voice actor (d.

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

) *September 30 – Kazuko, Princess Taka, later "Kazuko Takatsukasa", daughter of

Emperor Shōwa , posthumously honored as , was the 124th emperor of Japan according to the traditional order of succession, from 25 December 1926 until his death in 1989. He remains Japan's longest-reigning emperor as well as one of the world's longest-rei ...

(d. 1989) *October 4 –

Chokei Kishaba was an Okinawan martial arts master and founder of the Shōrin-ryū Kishaba Juku. He was born October 4, 1929, in Okinawa and died in the year 2000. Kishaba's younger brother Chogi Kishaba is also an Okinawan martial arts master. Shōrin-ryū ...

Okinawan martial arts Okinawan martial arts refers to the martial arts, such as karate, tegumi and kobudō, which originated among the indigenous people of Okinawa Island. Due to its location (between " Mainland Japan" and Taiwan), Okinawa was influenced by various c ...

master (d.

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

) *November 7 – Akio Suzuki, medical scientist, educator (d.

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

) *November 17 –

Gorō Naya was a Japanese actor, voice actor, narrator and theatre director from Hakodate, Hokkaidō. He was part of Theatre Echo all his career, and was the older brother of actor and voice actor Rokurō Naya. Biography Gorō Naya was born on 17 Novemb ...

, voice actor (d.

2013 2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years). 2013 was designated as: *International Year of Water Cooperation *International Year of Quinoa Events January * January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...

) *November 28 –

Kuniko Mukōda was a Japanese TV screenwriter. Most of her scripts focus on day-to-day family life and relationships. She won the 83rd Naoki Prize (1980上) for her short stories "Hanano Namae", "Kawauso" and "Inugoya." Life Mukōda was born in Tokyo, and mov ...

, screenwriter (d.

1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 6 – A funeral service is held in West Germany for Nazi Grand Admiral ...

) *December 12 –

Toshiko Akiyoshi is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and bandleader. Akiyoshi received fourteen Grammy Award nominations and was the first woman to win Best Arranger and Composer awards in ''Down Beat'' magazine's annual Readers' Poll. In 1984, sh ...

, jazz composer/arranger, bandleader and pianist *''Unknown'' – Akihiko Okamura, photographer (d.

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a n ...

)

Deaths

*February 10 –

Nagai Nagayoshi was a Japanese doctor of pharmacy and chemist. He is best known for the discovery of ephedrine and methamphetamine. Early life Nagai was born in Myōdō District, Awa Province in what is now Tokushima Prefecture, as the son of a doctor and st ...

, chemist and pharmacologist (b. 1844) *March 22 –

Inoue Yoshika Marshal Admiral Viscount was a career naval officer and admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy during Meiji-period Japan. Biography Born in what is now part of Kagoshima city, as the son of a ''samurai'' retainer of the Satsuma Domain, Inoue ...

, Marshal Admiral (b. 1845) *April 13 –

Gotō Shinpei Kazoku, Count was a Japanese politician, physician and cabinet minister of the Taishō period, Taishō and early Shōwa period Empire of Japan. He served as the head of civilian affairs of Taiwan under Japanese rule, Japanese Taiwan, the first ...

, politician and scouting pioneer (b. 1857) *April 27 –

Hōjō Tokiyuki was a samurai of the Hōjō clan who fought both for and against the Imperial Court. His father was Hōjō Takatoki, a Shikken, Shogunal Regent and ''de facto'' ruler of the Kamakura shogunate. Biography Tokiyuki had fought against both the ...

, educator, mathematician and politician (b. 1858) *June 29 –

Prince Kuniyoshi Kuni was a member of the Japanese imperial family and a field marshal in the Imperial Japanese Army during the Meiji and Taishō periods. He was the father of Empress Kōjun (who in turn was the consort of the Emperor Hirohito), and therefore, the ...

, prince and field marshalFujitani, T; Cox, Alvin D (1998). Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan. University of California Press. . (b. 1873) *July 25 – Shōzō Makino silent film director and producer (b. 1878) *August 16 –

Tsuda Umeko was a Japanese educator who founded Tsuda University. She was the daughter of Tsuda Sen, an agricultural scientist, and at the age of 7, she became Japan's first female exchange student, traveling to the U.S. on the same ship as the Iwakura ...

, educator (b. 1864) *August 26 –

Ernest Mason Satow Sir Ernest Mason Satow (30 June 1843 – 26 August 1929), was a British diplomat, scholar and Japanologist. He is better known in Japan, where he was known as , than in Britain or the other countries in which he served as a diplomat. He was ...

, British scholar, diplomat and

Japanologist , sometimes known as Japanology in Europe, is a sub-field of area studies or East Asian studies involved in social sciences and humanities research on Japan. It incorporates fields such as the study of Japanese language, History of Japan, history, ...

(b. 1843) *September 29 –

, general and

Prime Minister of Japan The is the head of government of Japan. The prime minister chairs the Cabinet of Japan and has the ability to select and dismiss its ministers of state. The prime minister also serves as the commander-in-chief of the Japan Self-Defense Force ...

(b.

1864 Events January * January 13 – American songwriter Stephen Foster ("Oh! Susanna", "Old Folks at Home") dies aged 37 in New York City, leaving a scrap of paper reading "Dear friends and gentle hearts". His parlor song "Beautiful Dream ...

) *October 31 – Senshō Murakami, Buddhist scholar and priest *November 22 –

Kamakichi Kishinouye was a Japanese Marine biologist, fisheries biologist and cnidariologist and a professor of the Imperial University of Tokyo (Faculty of Agriculture) between 1908 and 1928. Kishinouye died in Chengdu of a sudden illness while on a collecting exp ...

, marine biologist and cnidariologist (b.

1867 There were only 354 days this year in the newly purchased territory of Alaska. When the territory transferred from the Russian Empire to the United States, the calendric transition from the Julian to the Gregorian Calendar was made with only 1 ...

) *December 20 –

Ryūsei Kishida was a Japanese painter in Taishō and Shōwa period Japan. He is best known for his realistic ''yōga''-style portraiture, but also for his ''nihonga'' paintings in the 1920s. Biography Kishida was born in the Ginza district of Tokyo in 1891, ...

, painter (b. 1891)

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