1932 in Japan

Events in the year 1932 in Japan.

Incumbents

• Emperor: Hirohito
• Prime Minister:
• Inukai Tsuyoshi: until May 15
• Takahashi Korekiyo: (Acting) May 15 – May 26
• Saitō Makoto: from May 26
• Foreign Minister:
• Saitō Makoto: until July
• Uchida Kosai
• Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo

Governors

• Aichi Prefecture: Yujiro Osaki (until 28 June); Endo Ryusaku (starting 28 June)
• Akita Prefecture: Takeshi Uchida (until 28 June); Takabe Rokuzo (starting 28 June)
• Aomori Prefecture: Teizaburo Miyamoto (until 28 June); Taku Yasunobu (starting 28 June)
• Ehime Prefecture: Kume Shigeo (until 28 June); Jiro Ichinohe (starting 28 June)
• Fukui Prefecture: Keizo Ichimura (until 8 March); Shigeo Odachi (starting 8 March)
• Fukushima Prefecture: Murai Hachiro (until 28 June); Akagi Tomoharo (starting 28 June)
• Gifu Prefecture: Takehiko Ito (until 28 June); Umekichi Miyawaki (starting 28 June)
• Gunma Prefecture: Masao Kanazawa
• Hiroshima Prefecture: Ryo Chiba (until 28 June); Michio Yuzawa (starting 28 June)
• Ibaraki Prefecture: Seikichi Kimishima (until 18 June); Abe Kashichi (starting 18 June)
• Iwate Prefecture: Hidehiko Ishiguro
• Kagawa Prefecture: Akira Ito (until 28 June); Seikichi Kimijima (starting 28 June)
• Kanagawa Prefecture: Sukenari Yokoyama (starting month unknown)
• Kochi Prefecture: Kodora Akamatsu (until 4 March); Sakama Osamu (starting 4 March)
• Kumamoto Prefecture: Kenichi Yamashita (until 28 June); Keiichi Suzuki (starting 28 June)
• Kyoto Prefecture: Sukenari Yokoyama (until 28 June); Saito Munenori (starting 28 June)
• Mie Prefecture: Hirose Hisatada
• Miyagi Prefecture: Michio Yuzawa
• Miyazaki Prefecture: Gisuke Kinoshita
• Nagano Prefecture: Ishigaki Kuraji
• Niigata Prefecture: Toyoji Obata (until 28 June); Ryo Chiba (starting 28 June)
• Okinawa Prefecture: Jiro Ino
• Osaka Prefecture: Saito Munenori (until month unknown); Shinobu Agata (starting month unknown)
• Saga Prefecture: Saburo Hayakawa
• Saitama Prefecture: Umekichi Miyawaki (until 28 June); Shigezo Fukushima (starting 28 June)
• Shiname Prefecture: Rinsaku Yagi (starting 28 June); Masaki Fukumura (starting 28 June)
• Tochigi Prefecture: Chokichi Toshima (until 28 June); Nakarai Kiyoshi (starting 28 June)
• Tokyo:
• until 12 January: Hasegawa Hisakazu
• 12 January-27 May: Shohei Fujinuma
• starting 27 May: Masayasu Kouksaka
• Toyama Prefecture: Keiichi Suzuki (until 28 June); Saito Itsuki (starting 28 June)
• Yamagata Prefecture: Sada Kawamura (until 28 June); Ishihara Yajiro (starting 28 June)

Events

• January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932)
• January 25 – Nippon Bakelight, later Sumitomo Bakelight was founded.
• January 25–February 4 – Defense of Harbin
• January 28–March 3 – January 28 Incident
• February 20 – 1932 Japanese general election
• May 15 – May 15 Incident
• July 15 – Takashimaya Department Store in Osaka Nanba was officially open.
• August 12 – Tokyo Takarazuka Cinema Production, as predecessor of Toho was founded.
• September 1 – Topcon was founded.
• September 15 – the Japan-Manchukuo Protocol is signed by Japan giving Japanese forces permission to station in Manchukuo
• December 16 – Shirokiya Department Store fire
• Winter – The Japanese Communist Party make a concerted effort to reestablish its central organization during a time of police repression
• Unknown date
• Pharmacy retailer, Matsumoto Kiyoshi founded in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, as predecessor name was Matsumoto Pharmacy Shop.
• Nanzan Secondary School, later Nanzan University was founded in Nagoya.

Films

• Chûshingura - directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa
• First Steps Ashore - directed by Yasujirô Shimazu
• I Was Born, But... - directed by Yasujirō Ozu
• Kokushi muso - directed by Mansaku Itami
• Manmo kenkoku no reimei - directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
• Nasanunaka - directed by Mikio Naruse
• Spring Comes from the Ladies - directed by Yasujirô Ozu
• Until the Day We Meet Again - directed by Yasujirô Ozu
• Uzumaki - directed by Hiroshi Innami
• Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth - directed by Yasujirō Ozu

Births

• January 11 – Takkō Ishimori, voice actor (d. 2013)
• January 30 – Kazuo Inamori, philanthropist, entrepreneur, Zen Buddhist priest, and both founder of Kyocera and KDDI (d. 2022)
• March 7 – Momoko Kōchi, actress (d. 1998)
• March 26 – Katsumoto Saotome, writer and pacifist (d. 2022)
• March 31 – Nagisa Oshima, film director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• April 3 – Ineko Arima, film actress
• April 4 – Meisei Goto, author (d. 1999)
• April 16 – Shigeko Sasamori, Hiroshima bombing survivor and peace/anti-nuclear activist (d. 2024)
• June 24 – Hirohisa Fujii, politician and former Finance Minister (d. 2022)
• June 25 – Ichiro Ogimura, table tennis player (d. 1994)
• August 11
• Asei Kobayashi, composer and lyricist (d. 2021)
• Keiko Kishi, film actress, writer, and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador
• September 10 – Yasuo Yamada, voice actor (d. 1995)
• September 18 – Hisashi Owada, diplomat and law professor
• September 30 – Shintarō Ishihara, Japanese author and politician (d. 2022)
• October 2 – Masanobu Deme, film director (d. 2016)
• November 20
• Umeko Ando, Ainu singer and musician (d. 2004)
• Yorozuya Kinnosuke, kabuki actor (d. 1996)
• November 23 – Kunie Tanaka, film actor (d. 2021)
• December 13 – Tatsuya Nakadai, film actor (d. 2025)
• December 25 – Jun Etō, literary critic (d. 1999)

Deaths

• February 9 – Junnosuke Inoue, businessman and banker (assassinated) (b. 1869)
• March 5 – Dan Takuma, businessman (assassinated) (b. 1858)
• March 24 – Motojirō Kajii, writer (b. 1901)
• March 26 – Kigoshi Yasutsuna, general (b. 1854)
• May 15 – Inukai Tsuyoshi, politician and Prime Minister of Japan (assassinated) (b. 1855)
• May 26 – Yoshinori Shirakawa, general, (b. 1869)
• June 14 – Yamamoto Yaeko, nurse, wife of Joseph Hardy Neesima (b. 1845)
• July 24 – Hidaka Sōnojō, admiral (b. 1848)

See also

• 1932 in Japanese football
• List of Japanese films of the 1930s

References