Events in the year 1929 in

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. It corresponds to Shōwa 4 (昭和4年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

* Emperor:

Hirohito Emperor , commonly known in English-speaking countries by his personal name , was the 124th emperor of Japan, ruling from 25 December 1926 until his death in 1989. Hirohito and his wife, Empress Kōjun, had two sons and five daughters; he was ...

* Prime Minister: ** Tanaka Giichi: until July 2 ** Osachi Hamaguchi: from July 2

Governors

Aichi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Aichi Prefecture has a population of 7,552,873 () and a geographic area of with a population density of . Aichi Prefecture borders Mie Prefecture to the west, Gifu Prefectur ...

: 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 Shin may refer to: Biology * The front part of the human leg below the knee * Shinbone, the tibia, the larger of the two bones in the leg below the knee in vertebrates Names * Shin (given name) (Katakana: シン, Hiragana: しん), a Japanese g ...

(starting 8 November) *Fukui Prefecture: Joko Obama *Fukuoka Prefecture: Saito Morikuni (starting month unknown) *Fukushima Prefecture: Aid Kiyoo (until 5 July);

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

(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 (starting 5 July) *Gunma Prefecture: Omori Keiichi (until 10 September); Hotta Kanae (starting 10 September) *

Hiroshima Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Hiroshima Prefecture has a population of 2,811,410 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 8,479 km² (3,274 sq mi). Hiroshima Prefecture borders Okayama ...

: Masao Kishimoto (until 5 July); Hiroshi Kawabuchi (starting 5 July) * Ibaraki Prefecture:

Jiro Morioka Jiro is the registered name used by Sun Microsystems for an extension to Java and Jini. Jiro as an industry initiative, along with an EMC initiative called "Wide Sky" were catalysts in the late nineties for a common interface to storage devices, ...

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

Ishikawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshu island. Ishikawa Prefecture has a population of 1,140,573 (31 October 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,186 km2 (1,616 sq mi). Ishikawa Prefecture borders Toyama Prefecture to ...

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 estate ...

(starting month unknown) *Iwate Prefecture: Tojiro Io (until 5 July); Shichiro Niwa (starting 5 July) *Kagawa Prefecture:

Toshio Motoda Toshio is a common masculine Japanese given name. Possible writings Toshio can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *敏夫, "agile, man" *敏男, "agile, man" *敏雄, "agile, male" *俊夫, "sagacious, man" *俊雄, "saga ...

(until 5 July); Susumu Tsuboi (starting 5 July) * Kanagawa Prefecture:

Ikeda Hiroshi Ikeda may refer to: * Ikeda (surname), a Japanese surname * Ikeda (comics), a character in ''Usagi Yojimbo'' * Ikeda clan, a Japanese clan * Ikeda map, chaotic attractor * ''Ikeda'' (annelid) a genus of the family Ikedidae Places * Ikeda, Osaka i ...

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

Tanaka is the fourth most common Japanese name, 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 *, Japane ...

(starting 5 July) * Kumamoto Prefecture: Saito Munenori (until month unknown); Omori Kichigoro (starting month unknown) * Kyoto Prefecture:

Shigeyoshi Omihara Shigeyoshi (written: 重喜, 重好, 重能, 重良, 重義, 重吉, 成美, 成栄, 茂義 or 臣善) is a masculine Japanese given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that id ...

(until July); Shinichi Sagami (starting July) *Mie Prefecture: Iori Hanada (until 8 November); Keizo Ichimura (starting 8 November) *

Miyagi Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Tōhoku region of Honshu. Miyagi Prefecture has a population of 2,305,596 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Miyagi Prefecture borders Iwate Prefecture to the north, Akita Prefecture to the nort ...

: Katorataro Ushizu (until 9 October); Michio Yuzawa (starting 9 October) *Miyazaki Prefecture:

Kunitoshi Yamaoka is a Japanese film director, screenwriter and film critic. Biography Kunitoshi Manda was a student at Rikkyo University, where he took Shigehiko Hasumi's filmology class. Manda directed his first feature film, ''Unloved'', in 2001. It won the G ...

(until 5 July); Kaoru Ishida (starting 5 July) *

Nagano Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region of Honshū. Nagano Prefecture has a population of 2,052,493 () and has a geographic area of . Nagano Prefecture borders Niigata Prefecture to the north, Gunma Prefecture to the ...

: Ryo Chiba (until 5 July); Shintaro Suzuki (starting 5 July) * Niigata Prefecture: Ozaki Yujiro (until 5 July);

Takeo Mimatsu Takeo may refer to: * Takéo Province, a province of Cambodia **Doun Kaev (town), formerly known as Takéo, the capital of Takéo province *Ta Keo, an Angkorian temple in Cambodia *Takeo, Saga, a city in Saga Prefecture, Japan *Takeo (given name), ...

(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 1,906,464 (1 February 2018) and has a geographic area of 7,114 Square kilometre, km2 (2,746 sq mi). Okayama Prefectur ...

: Masao Kishimoto (until month unknown);

Minabe Choji 270px, Minabe Town Hall is a small town located in Hidaka District, Wakayama Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 12,137 in 4725 households and a population density of 100 persons per km². The tot ...

(starting month unknown) *

Okinawa Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan. Okinawa Prefecture is the southernmost and westernmost prefecture of Japan, has a population of 1,457,162 (as of 2 February 2020) and a geographic area of 2,281 km2 (880 sq mi). Naha is the capital and largest city o ...

: Chōhei Hosokawa (until 5 July); Masao Moriya (starting 5 July) *

Osaka Prefecture is a Prefectures of Japan, 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 ...

: Yuichiro Chikaraishi *

Saitama Prefecture is a landlocked prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Saitama Prefecture has a population of 7,338,536 (1 January 2020) and has a geographic area of 3,797 km2 (1,466 sq mi). Saitama Prefecture borders Tochigi Prefecture ...

: ** until 6 February:

Miyawaki Umekichi Miyawaki (stylized in all capital letters, born June 28, 1977) is a Japanese professional wrestler, best known for his work in the Kaientai Dojo and Osaka Pro Wrestling promotions. He has also wrestled in the United States for Chikara and Pro W ...

** 6 February-5 July: Shirane Takekai ** starting 5 July: Chohei Hosokawa *Shiname Prefecture: Rinsaku Yagi *Tochigi Prefecture: ** until 5 July:

Takeichi Fujiyama Takeichi (written: 竹一 or 武一) is a masculine Japanese given name A given name (also known as a forename or first name) is the part of a personal name quoted in that identifies a person, potentially with a middle name as well, and dif ...

** 5 July-8 November:

** starting 8 November: Harada * Tokyo: ** until 9 October:

Hiroshi Hiratsuka is a common masculine Japanese given name. It can also be transliterated as Hirosi. Possible writings Hiroshi can be written using different kanji characters and can mean: *浩, "meaning" *汎 *弘, *宏, *寛, *洋, *博, *博一, *博司, ...

** 5 July-9 October: Kenzo Kakagawa ** starting 9 October: Torataro Shizuka *Toyama Prefecture:

Shirane Takesuke JS ' (DDH-143) was the lead ship of the her eponymous class of destroyer in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF). Construction and career The vessel was laid down by Ishikawajima-Harima in Tokyo on February 25, 1977; launched on ...

(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), Japanes ...

(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. *April 1 - openings of Kugenuma-Kaigan Station,

Satte Station is a passenger railway station located in the city of Satte, Saitama, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Tōbu Railway. Lines Satte Station is served by the Tōbu Nikkō Line, and is 5.8 km from the starting point of the Nik ...

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 ...

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

Kita-ku, Osaka is one of 24 wards of Osaka in Japan. Incidents and accidents 2021 Osaka building fire Notable locations Kita-ku, particularly the Umeda area surrounding Osaka Station, is one of the main commercial centers of Osaka. Kita-ku is also a fina ...

. *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.

Films

Akeyuku Sora is a 1929 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment directed by Torajiro Saito. A melodrama about an orphan and her mother who are separated and lose contact, but are later reunited. Cast * Mitsuko Takao () * Reikichi Ka ...

Days of Youth is a Japanese comedy film directed by Yasujirō Ozu. It is the oldest known surviving film by the director. The film tells of two friends from a university (played by Ichirō Yūki and Tatsuo Saitō) who vie for the attention of the same girl ( ...

Sakanaya Honda , also known as ''Fish and Swordsmanship'' and ''Sakanaya Kenpo'', is a 1929 Japanese film directed by Shuichi Yamashita. Cast * Ensho Jitsukawa * Dojuro Kataoka * Akane Hisano References External links

* Japanese black-and-white f ...

Births

*January 1 – Haruo Nakajima, actor, stuntman, and choreographer (d.

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

) *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 village, Kameoka town, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan, son of Masakazu Kawakatsu, a squire of the vil ...

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

Sumiteru Taniguchi was a survivor of the 1945 atomic bombing of Nagasaki, a prominent activist for a treaty prohibiting nuclear weapons, and chairman of the Nagasaki Council of A-Bomb Sufferers. Early life Taniguchi Sumiteru was born in Fukuoka, Japan in 1929. ...

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

) *January 30 – Isamu Akasaki, physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d.

2021 File:2021 collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: the James Webb Space Telescope was launched in 2021; Protesters in Yangon, Myanmar following the 2021 Myanmar coup d'état, coup d'état; A civil demonstration against the October–November 2021 ...

) *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 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

) *February 14 ** Hirokazu Kobayashi, aikidoka (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 frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

) ** Masamoto Yashiro, businessman *March 20 – Kazue Takahashi, voice actress (d.

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

) *March 22 – Yayoi Kusama, artist *March 28 –

Takehiro Irokawa was a noted Japanese people, Japanese writer who published both serious literature and light fiction under a variety of pseudonyms including Asada Tetsuya (阿佐田哲也) and Budai Irokawa (色川武大). Many of his works were autobiographical ...

, writer (d.

1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress Street Viaduct, Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxo ...

) *April 3 – Shinichiro Sakurai, automotive engineer (d.

2011 File:2011 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: a protester partaking in Occupy Wall Street heralds the beginning of the Occupy movement; protests against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi, who was killed that October; a young man celebrate ...

) *April 6 – Shoichi Ozawa, actor, radio host and singer (d.

2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ...

) *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 File:2014 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Stocking up supplies and personal protective equipment (PPE) for the Western African Ebola virus epidemic; Citizens examining the ruins after the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapping; Bundles of wat ...

) *May 8 – Miyoshi Umeki, actress (d.

2007 File:2007 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Steve Jobs unveils Apple's first iPhone; TAM Airlines Flight 3054 overruns a runway and crashes into a gas station, killing almost 200 people; Former Pakistani Prime Minister of Pakistan, Pr ...

) *June 1 – Tatsuro Toyoda, 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 Musashibō Benkei, a Japanese warrior monk, in the drama, Kanjinchō. Outside Japan, Tomijūrō toured performed in the United S ...

, Kabuki actor (d. 2011) *July 5 – Chikao Ohtsuka, voice actor (d.

2015 File:2015 Events Collage new.png, From top left, clockwise: Civil service in remembrance of November 2015 Paris attacks; Germanwings Flight 9525 was purposely crashed into the French Alps; the rubble of residences in Kathmandu following the Apri ...

) *September 29 – Tōru Ōhira, voice actor (d.

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses during the 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh ...

) *September 30 – Kazuko, Princess Taka, later "Kazuko Takatsukasa", daughter of Emperor Shōwa (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-ry� ...

, Okinawan martial arts master (d.

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

) *November 7 –

Akio Suzuki was a Japanese doctor, medical scientist, educator and president of Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU).Arai, Hirokuni"In Honor of the Late Dr. Akio Suzuki,"''Annals of Thoracic Cardiovascular Surgery'' (Ann Thorac Cardiovasc Surg), 2011, vo ...

, medical scientist, educator (d.

2010 File:2010 Events Collage New.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2010 Chile earthquake was one of the strongest recorded in history; The Eruption of Eyjafjallajökull in Iceland disrupts air travel in Europe; A scene from the opening ceremony of ...

) *November 17 – Gorō Naya, voice actor (d.

2013 File:2013 Events Collage V2.png, From left, clockwise: Edward Snowden becomes internationally famous for leaking classified NSA wiretapping information; Typhoon Haiyan kills over 6,000 in the Philippines and Southeast Asia; The Dhaka garment fact ...

) *November 28 – Kuniko Mukōda, 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 10 – Salvadoran Civil War: The FMLN launches its first major offensiv ...

) *December 12 – Toshiko Akiyoshi, 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 ...

)

Deaths

*February 10 –

Nagai Nagayoshi was a Japanese pharmacist, best known for his study of ephedrine. Early life Nagai was born in Myōdō District, Awa Province in what is now Tokushima Prefecture, as the son of a doctor and started studying ''rangaku'' medicine at the Dutch ...

, 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 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 Shōwa), and therefore, the mat ...

, 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 and a pioneer in education for women in Meiji period Japan.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Tsuda Umeko" in . Originally named Tsuda Ume, with ''ume'' referring to the Japanese plum, she went by the name Ume Tsuda w ...

, 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 Events January–March * 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 " ...

) *November 22 – Kamakichi Kishinouye, marine biologist and cnidariologist (b.

1867 Events January–March * January 1 – The Covington–Cincinnati Suspension Bridge opens between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky, in the United States, becoming the longest single-span bridge in the world. It was renamed a ...

) *December 20 – Ryūsei Kishida, painter (b. 1891)

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