Events in the year 1937 in Japan.
Incumbents
Governors
Events
Births
- February 12 – Keisuke Sagawa, actor (d. 2017)
- March 25 – Hidekatsu Shibata, actor, voice actor and narrator
- March 29 – Shigeaki Mori, historian (d. 2026)
- April 1 – , essayist and the childhood wife of Shintaro Ishihara (d. 2022)
- April 6 – Minoru Betsuyaku, playwright, novelist, and essayist (d. 2020)
- April 18 – Keiko Abe, marimba player and composer
- May 10 – Emiko Miyamoto, volleyball player (Oriental Witches) (d. 2023)
- May 26 – Monkey Punch, manga artist (Lupin III) (d. 2019)
- May 29 – Hibari Misora, singer and actress (d. 1989)
- June 25 – KeizÃ
 Obuchi, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2000)
- July 3 – Hiroko Mori, Micronesian politician
- July 14 – YoshirÃ
 Mori, Prime Minister of Japan
- July 29 – Ryutaro Hashimoto, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2006)
- August 26 – Kenji Utsumi, actor and voice actor (d. 2013)
Deaths
See also
References