1935 in Japan
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Events from the year 1935 in Japan.
Incumbents
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- Aichi Prefecture: Eitaro Shinohara
- Akita Prefecture: Takabe Rokuzo
- Aomori Prefecture: Mitsumasa Kobayashi
- Ehime Prefecture: Jiro Ichinohe (until 15 January); Jiro Kan Oba (starting 15 January)
- Fukui Prefecture: Shinsuke Kondo
- Fukushima Prefecture: Ito Takehiko
- Gifu Prefecture:
- until 15 January: Umekichi Miyawaki
- 15 January-31 May: Chi Sakamato
- starting 31 May: Chiaki Saka
- Gunma Prefecture: Masao Kanazawa (until 15 January); Seikichi Kimishima (starting 15 June)
- Hiroshima Prefecture: Michio Yuzawa (until 15 January); Keiichi Suzuki (starting 15 January)
- Ibaraki Prefecture: Abe Kashichi (until 15 January); Ando Kyoushirou (starting 15 January)
- Iwate Prefecture: Hidehiko Ishiguro
- Kagawa Prefecture: Yoshisuke Kinoshita (until 15 June); Megumi Fujimo (starting 15 June)
- Kumamoto Prefecture: Keiichi Suzuki (until 15 January); Sekiya Nobuyuke (starting 15 January)
- Kochi Prefecture: Yozora Takehamu (until 16 October); Kobayashi Mitsumasa (starting 16 October)
- Kyoto Prefecture: Saito Munenori (until January); Shintaro Suzuki (starting January)
- Mie Prefecture: Saburo Hayakawa (until 23 June); Aijiro Tomita (starting 23 June)
- Miyagi Prefecture: Kiyoshi Nakarai (until 28 June); Jiro Ino (starting 28 June)
- Miyazaki Prefecture: Seikuchi Kimishima (until 15 January); Seiya Mishima (starting 15 January)
- Nagano Prefecture: Okoda Shuzo (until 15 January); Seiichi Omora (starting 15 January)
- Niigata Prefecture: Chiba Ryo (until 15 June); Miyawaki Umekichi (starting 15 June)
- Okinawa Prefecture: Jiro Ino (until 28 June); Hisashi Kurashige (starting 28 June)
- Osaka Prefecture: Shinobu Agata (until month unknown)
- Saga Prefecture: Shizuo Furukawa
- Saitama Prefecture: Kazume Iinuma (until 25 May); Saito Juri (starting 25 May)
- Shiname Prefecture: Masaki Fukumura
- Tochigi Prefecture: Gunzo Kayaba
- Tokyo: Masayasu Kouksaka (until 15 January); Sukenari Yokoya (starting 15 January)
- Toyama Prefecture: Saito Itsuki (until 25 May); Ginjiro Toki (starting 25 May)
- Yamagata Prefecture: Taro Kanamori
Events
- January 8 - Battle of Khalkhyn Temple
- February 11 – Tosoh was founded in Tokuyama (now Shunan) Yamaguchi Prefecture, as predecessor name was Toyo Soda.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
- June - North Chahar Incident
- June 27 - Chin-Doihara Agreement
- July 5 - establishment of Ōtone Prefectural Natural Park.
- August 9 - establishment of Mineokasankei Prefectural Natural Park, Kujūkuri Prefectural Natural Park, Takagoyama Prefectural Natural Park and Yōrō Keikoku Okukiyosumi Prefectural Natural Park.
- September 27 - opening of Tōbu-Izumi Station.
- October 20 - opening of Musahiro-Tokiwa Station (now Tokiwadai Station (Tokyo)).
- Unknown date – Yakult founded in Fukuoka City.{{page needed|date=May 2020}}
- Establishment of Naoki Prize and Akutagawa Prize.
Films
- January 20 - Orizuru Osen
- November 21 - An Inn in Tokyo
- date unknown - Kodakara Sodo
Births
- January 4 – Toru Terasawa, runner
- January 31 – Kenzaburō Ōe, writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2023)
- February 22 – Hisako Kyōda, Japanese voice actress
- March 17 – Seiji Yokoyama, musician (d. 2017)
- April 17 – Masanori Hata, zoologist, essayist, and filmmaker (d. 2023)
- May 15 – Akihiro Miwa, singer, actor, author and drag queen
- June 10 – Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese manga artist (d. 2015)
- June 26 – Sumiko Shirakawa, voice actress (body discovered. 2015)
- June 29 – Katsuya Nomura, baseball player and manager (d. 2020)
- July 12 – Satoshi Ōmura, biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate{{cite book|title=Heterocycles|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GixFAQAAIAAJ|year=2006|publisher=Sendai Institute of Heterocyclic Chemistry|page=7}}
- July 23 – Yukiji Asaoka, singer and actress (d. 2018)
- August 24 – Tsutomu Hata, 51st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2017)
- September 1 – Seiji Ozawa, conductor (d. 2024)
- September 14 – Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (d. 2008)
- October 2 – Noriko Ohara, actress, voice actress and narrator
- October 9 – Teruyoshi Nakano, special effects director
- October 10 – Yumiko Kurahashi, writer (d. 2005)
- October 15 – Yukio Ninagawa, theater director (d. 2016)
- October 29 – Isao Takahata, film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2018)
- November 15 – Kaneta Kimotsuki, voice actor (d. 2016)
- November 17 – Masatoshi Sakai, Japanese record producer[https://news.1242.com/article/107044 11/17は日本歌謡史の流れを変えた名ディレクター・酒井政利の誕生日【大人のMusic Calendar】]. News Online. Nippon Broadcasting System. 17 November 2016.[https://hochi.news/articles/20210719-OHT1T51066.html?page=1 音楽プロデューサー・酒井政利さん、死去 85歳]. Sports Hochi. 19 July 2021.
- November 28 – Masahito, Prince Hitachi
- December 10 – Shūji Terayama, poet, writer, film director, and photographer (d. 1983)
- December 19 – Taizo Nishimuro, businessman (d. 2017)
- date unknown
- Yoshikazu Minami (photographer)
- Keizaburo Tejima, artist and author
Deaths
- January 17 – Ishikawa Chiyomatsu, biologist, zoologist, and ichthyologist (b. 1861)
- February 28 – Tsubouchi Shōyō, author, critic and educator (b. 1859)
- March 8 – Hachikō, a faithful Akita, on the spot where he had awaited his dead owner for nine years"[https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2009/06/25/national/hollywood-the-latest-to-fall-for-tale-of-hachiko/ Hollywood the latest to fall for tale of Hachiko]," The Japan Times, June 25, 2009
- March 20 – Gyoshū Hayami, painter (b. 1894)
- August 12 – Tetsuzan Nagata, general (b. 1884)