1930 in Japan
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{{Year in Japan|1930}}
Events in the year 1930 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 5 (昭和5年) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
Events
- January 1 – The Ministry of Rail adopts the metric system for all of Japan's railways.
- February 4 – Prince Takamatsu marries Kikuko Tokugawa.
- February 20 – 1930 Japanese general election: The Rikken Minseitō party, led by Prime Minister Osachi Hamaguchi, won an overall majority in the House of Representatives. Voter turnout was 83.34%.
- May 5 – Iwatani Industry has founded in Osaka. (As predecessor name was Iwatani Naoji Shoten) {{page needed|date=May 2020}}
- May 24–27 – 1930 Far Eastern Games held in Tokyo.{{cite book |last1=Bell |first1=Daniel |title=Encyclopedia of international games |date=2003 |publisher=McFarland & Co |location=Jefferson, N.C. |isbn=0-7864-1026-4 |page=474}}
- October 27–December – Wushe Incident
- November 14 – Prime Minister Osachi Hamaguchi is shot inside Tokyo Station by Tomeo Sagoya in a failed assassination attempt. The wounds kept Hamaguchi hospitalized for several months.
- November 18 – the Buddhist religious movement Soka Gakkai is formed by educator Tsunesaburō Makiguchi.
- December 21 – The First Gōdō Bank and Sanyō Bank were merged, that became name for Okayama Chūgoku Bank.{{citation needed|date=September 2022}}
- Unknown date
- According to All Japan Pachinko Association confirmed report, first standards pachinko parlor open in Nagoya.{{page needed|date=May 2020}}
- NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories was founded{{cite book |last1=Hart |first1=Jeffrey A. |title=Technology, Television, and Competition: The Politics of Digital TV |date=5 February 2004 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-139-44224-4 |page=84 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R4j_Pmj_l9MC&pg=PA84 |language=en}}
Births
- January 12 – Minoru Makihara, businessman and CEO of Mitsubishi Corporation (d. 2020)
- January 15 – Michiyo Aratama, actress (d. 2001)
- January 16 – Shōmei Tōmatsu, photographer (d. 2012)
- January 18 – Shōgorō Nishimura, film director (d. 2017)
- January 20 – Sadateru Arikawa, aikido teacher (d. 2003)
- January 29 – Norio Ohga, businessman and CEO of Sony (d. 2011)
- January 30 – Osamu Suzuki, businessman and CEO of Suzuki (d. 2024)
- April 23 – Shun Akiyama, literary critic (d. 2013)
- April 24 – Yumi Katsura, wedding fashion designer (d. 2024)
- April 29 – Kyōko Kishida, actress (d. 2006)
- May 20 – Yasushi Nagao, Pulitzer Prize-winning press photographer (d. 2009)
- June 3 – Ben Wada, television director (d. 2011)
- June 15 – Ikuo Hirayama, painter (d. 2009)
- June 29 – Sachiko Hidari, actress (d. 2001)
- July 3 – Kinji Fukasaku, film director (d. 2003)
- August 1 – Satoru Kobayashi, film director (d. 2001)
- September 12 – Akira Suzuki, chemist
- October 8 – Tōru Takemitsu, composer (d. 1996)
- October 10 – Akiyuki Nosaka, novelist, singer and politician (d. 2015)
- October 12 – Keiichi Komura, boxer (d. 2023){{citation needed|date=January 2024}}
- November 10 – Michiya Mihashi, enka singer (d. 1996)
- November 11 – Minako Oba, enka author and social critic (d. 2007)
- December 10 – Yukio Koshimori, politician (d. 2005)
- December 17 – Makoto Moroi, composer (d. 2013){{cite web|author=Le 2 septembre 2013 par La Rédaction |url=http://www.resmusica.com/2013/09/02/deces-du-compositeur-et-critique-musical-japonais-makoto-moroi-1930-2013/ |title=Décès du compositeur japonais Makoto Moroi (1930-2013) « Flash-Info « ResMusica |publisher=Resmusica.com |access-date=2013-09-03}}
- December 30 – Takeshi Kaikō, author (d. 1989)
Deaths
- January 27 – Dewa Shigetō, admiral (b. 1856)
- March 2 – Katsusaburō Yamagiwa, pathologist and physician (b. 1863)
- March 10 - Misuzu Kaneko, poet (b. 1903)
- March 28 – Uchimura Kanzō, author and pacifist (b. 1861)
- May 10 – Kanzan Shimomura, nihonga painter (b. 1873)
- May 13 – Katai Tayama, novelist (b. 1872)
- June 30 – Yashiro Rokurō, admiral (1860)
- July 19 – Oku Yasukata, Field Marshall (b. 1847)
- October 30 – Sakichi Toyoda, inventor and industrialist (b. 1867)
- November 4 – Akiyama Yoshifuru, general (b. 1859)
- November 9 – Asano Sōichirō, businessman (b. 1848)
- November 16 – Den Kenjirō, politician and Governor-General of Taiwan (b. 1855)