1929 in Japan
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{{Year in Japan|1929}}
Events in the year 1929 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 4 (昭和4年) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
=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.{{page needed|date=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.{{citation needed|date=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.{{page needed|date=May 2020}}
Films
Births
- January 1 – Haruo Nakajima, actor, stuntman, and choreographer (d. 2017)
- January 16 – Shigeru Koyama, actor (d. 2017)
- January 20 – Masaharu Kawakatsu, zoologist
- January 23 – Kenji Suzuki, announcer
- January 26 – Sumiteru Taniguchi, survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bombing, and anti–nuclear weapons activist (d. 2017)
- January 30 – Isamu Akasaki, physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021)
- February 13 – Frankie Sakai, comedian, actor, and musician (d. 1996)
- February 14
- Hirokazu Kobayashi, aikidoka (d. 1998)
- Masamoto Yashiro, businessman
- March 20 – Kazue Takahashi, voice actress (d. 1999)
- March 22 – Yayoi Kusama, artist
- March 28 – Takehiro Irokawa, writer (d. 1989)
- April 3 – Shinichiro Sakurai, automotive engineer (d. 2011)
- April 6 – Shoichi Ozawa, actor, radio host and singer (d. 2012)
- April 10 – Yozo Aoki, football player (d. 2014)
- May 8 – Miyoshi Umeki, actress (d. 2007)
- June 1 – Tatsuro Toyoda, businessman (d. 2017)
- June 4 – Nakamura Tomijūrō V, Kabuki actor (d. 2011)
- July 5 – Chikao Ohtsuka, voice actor (d. 2015)
- September 29 – Tōru Ōhira, voice actor (d. 2016)
- September 30 – Kazuko, Princess Taka, later "Kazuko Takatsukasa", daughter of Emperor Shōwa (d. 1989)
- October 4 – Chokei Kishaba, Okinawan martial arts master (d. 2000)
- November 7 – Akio Suzuki, medical scientist, educator (d. 2010)
- November 17 – Gorō Naya, voice actor (d. 2013)
- November 28 – Kuniko Mukōda, screenwriter (d. 1981)
- December 12 – Toshiko Akiyoshi, jazz composer/arranger, bandleader and pianist
- Unknown – Akihiko Okamura, photographer (d. 1985)
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. {{ISBN|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
References
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