1935 in Japan

Events from the year 1935 in Japan.

Incumbents

• Emperor: Hirohito
• Prime Minister: Keisuke Okada

Governors

• 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.
• 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, KujÅ«kuri 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.
• Establishment of Naoki Prize and Akutagawa Prize.

Films

• January 20 - Orizuru Osen
• November 21 - An Inn in Tokyo
• date unknown - Kodakara Sodo

Births

• January 2 – Sumiko Iwao, psychologist and educator (d. 2018)
• January 4 – Toru Terasawa, runner (d. 2025)
• January 31 – Kenzaburō Ōe, Nobel Prize-winning Japanese writer (d. 2023)
• February 2 – Junko Hori, Japanese voice actress (d. 2024)
• February 6 – Yoshiomi Tamai, founder of Ashinaga (d. 2025)
• February 22 – Hisako Kyōda, Japanese voice actress
• March 17 – Seiji Yokoyama, musician (d. 2017)
• March 22 – YÅ«tokutaishi Akiyama, engraver and photographer (d. 2020)
• April 9 – Motomu Kiyokawa, actor and voice actor (d. 2022)
• April 17 – Masanori Hata, zoologist, essayist, and filmmaker (d. 2023)
• May 10 – Ikujiro Nonaka, theorist and academician (d. 2025)
• May 15 – Akihiro Miwa, singer, actor, author and drag queen
• June 2 – Keiko Hanagata, voice actress (d. 2015)
• 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, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist
• July 23 – Yukiji Asaoka, singer and actress (d. 2018)
• August 9 – Kazuko Yoshiyuki, actress, voice actress, and essayist (d. 2025)
• August 24 – Tsutomu Hata, 51st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2017)
• September 1 – Seiji Ozawa, composer and conductor (d. 2024)
• September 14 – Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (d. 2008)
• September 24 – Yuzuru Fujimoto, voice actor (d. 2019)
• September 29 – Rieko Nakagawa, Japanese writer and lyricist (d. 2024)
• October 2 – Noriko Ohara, actress, voice actress and narrator (d. 2024)
• October 4 – Takao Iwami, political pundit (d. 2014)
• October 8 – Yoshikazu Minami, photographer
• October 9 – Teruyoshi Nakano, special effects director (d. 2022)
• 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 (d. 2021)
• November 28 – Prince Masahito of Hitachi
• December 10 – ShÅ«ji Terayama, poet, writer, film director, and photographer (d. 1983)
• December 19 – Taizo Nishimuro, businessman (d. 2017)
• date unknown
• 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
• March 20 – GyoshÅ« Hayami, painter (b. 1894)
• August 12 – Tetsuzan Nagata, general (b. 1884)

See also

• 1935 in Japanese football
• List of Japanese films of the 1930s

References