1936 in Japan
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{{Year in Japan|1936}}
Events in the year 1936 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 11 (昭和11年) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
Events
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- February 5 – Japanese Baseball League is founded.
- February 6 – Ricoh founded.{{cite book |last1=Carr |first1=Jennifer L. |title=Major Companies of The Far East and Australasia 1991/92: Volume 2: East Asia |date=2012-12-06 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-94-011-3010-3 |page=234 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9wPoCAAAQBAJ&pg=PA234 |language=en}}
- February 21 – According to USGS official report, a Richer scale 6.0 earthquake hit on Mount Nijō, Nara Prefecture, according to Japanese government official confirmed report, kills nine persons and injures 59 persons.:ja:河内大和地震 (Japanese language edition) Ritriveted date on 8 April 2022.
- February 26–29 – February 26 Incident (二・二六事件, Niniroku Jiken): The Imperial Way Faction engineers a failed coup against the Japanese government; some politicians are killed.
- February 27 – Tokyo is placed under martial law (not to be repealed until July 16)
- February 29
- Prime Minister Keisuke Okada, a target in the February 26 incident, emerges from hiding.
- Emperor Hirohito orders the Japanese army to arrest 123 conspirators in Tokyo government offices; 19 of them are executed in July.
- Facing overwhelming opposition as the army moved against them, the rebels surrender
- March 4 – The Emperor signs an ordinance on March 4 establishing a Special Court Martial (特設軍法会議 {{Transliteration|ja|tokusetsu gunpō kaigi}}) to try those involved in the February 26 uprising.Chaen (2001), p. 186-99
- March 9 – Pro-democratic militarist Keisuke Okada steps down as Prime Minister of Japan and is replaced by radical militarist Kōki Hirota.
- March 12 – Ukichiro Nakaya creates the first artificial snow crystal.
- May 11 – According to Japanese government and former Japan Health and Welfare Ministry official report, a massive food poisoning hit, many attend and their families presented Daifuku rice cake eat, after 2,200 persons affective salmonella infection in junhor high-school sports festival in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, total 29 students and 15 parents and families were lost to lives.:ja:浜一中大福餅事件 (Japan language edition) Retrieved date on December 30, 2021.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}
- May 18 – Sada Abe strangled her lover with an obi and then cut off his genitals to carry around with her as a souvenir. When the crime was discovered the next day it became a national sensation and would be the subject of many books and movies over the decades to follow.{{cite web |url=http://www.japanreview.net/review_geisha_harlot_strangler_star.htm |title=The Cruelest Cut |last=Honjo |first=Yuki Allyson |website=JapanReview.net |access-date=August 16, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100729195611/http://www.japanreview.net/review_geisha_harlot_strangler_star.htm |archive-date=July 29, 2010 }}
- July 31 – The International Olympic Committee announces that the 1940 Summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo. However, the games are given back to the IOC after the Second Sino-Japanese War breaks out, and are eventually cancelled altogether because of World War II.
- August 1–August 16 – Japan competes at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Japan wins six gold medals, four silvers, and eight Bronze.
- November 20 – Mitsubishi Osarizawa mine and Nakazawa dam collapse by heavy rain, total 362 persons fatalities in Akita Prefecture, according to Japanese government official confirmed report.{{page needed|date=May 2020}}
- Unknown date – Bousei-gakujuku, as predecessor of Tokai University was founded in Musashino, Tokyo.{{page needed|date=May 2020}}
Films
Births
- January 24 – Etsuko Ichihara, (d. 2019)
- February 20 – Shigeo Nagashima, professional baseball player, coach
- April 10 – Makoto Wada, illustrator, essayist and film director
- April 22 – Takeshi Koba, professional baseball player and coach
- June 19 – Takeshi Aono, voice actor (d. 2012)
- June 27 – Tadanori Yokoo, graphic designer, illustrator, print maker and painter.
- July 8 – Kazuhiro Tanaka, modern pentathlete
- July 16
- Yasuo Fukuda, 58th Prime Minister of Japan
- Akira Kinoshita, photographer
- July 23 – Keiichi Tanaami, pop artist (d. 2015)
- September 3 – Ikki Kajiwara, author, manga writer, and film producer (d. 1987)
- September 4 – Yoshihisa Yoshikawa, sport shooter (d. 2019)
- October 12 – Minoru Murayama, Japanese baseball pitcher (d. 1998)
- October 14 – Fuyumi Shiraishi, voice actress (d. 2019)
- October 16 – Akira Machida, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan (d. 2015)
- October 25 – Masako Nozawa, voice actress
- October 29 – Akiko Kojima, model and beauty queen
- October 31 – Shigeo Takii, supreme court justice (d. 2015)
- December 4 – Michiko Yamamoto, writer and poet
Deaths
- January 11 – Ikuta Chōkō, translator, author and literary critic (b. 1882)
- February 1 – Genji Matsuda, politician and cabinet minister (b. 1876)
- February 26
- Saitō Makoto, naval officer and politician (19th Prime Minister of Japan) (b. 1858)
- Takahashi Korekiyo, politician and Governor of the Bank of Japan (b. 1854)
- Jōtarō Watanabe, general (b. 1874)
- February 29 – Shirō Nonaka, Imperial Japanese Army officer (b. 1903)
- March 11 – Yumeno Kyūsaku, writer (b. 1889)
- March 12 – Uchida Kōsai, statesman, diplomat and interim prime minister (b. 1865)
- March 27 – Kawasaki Takukichi, politician and cabinet minister (b. 1871)
- April 8 – Chūhachi Ninomiya, aviation pioneer (b. 1866)
- May 3 – Kikunae Ikeda, chemist (b. 1864
- May 27 – Take Hagiwara, military nurse (b. 1873)
- June 10 – Tsuchida Bakusen, nihonga painter (b. 1887)
- June 27 – Miekichi Suzuki, novelist (b. 1882)
- July 3 – Saburo Aizawa (b. 1889)
- July 12 – Yasuhide Kurihara (b. 1908)
- October 8 – Utako Shimoda, educator and poet (b. 1854)
See also
References
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