Events in the year 1944 in Japan. It corresponds to ShÃ
Âwa 19 (æÂÂÃ¥ÂÂ19å¹´) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
Governors
Events
Births
- January 7 - Kotaro Suzumura, economist and professor emeritus of Hitotsubashi University and Waseda University (d. 2020)
- January 14 - Makiko Tanaka, politician
- January 20 - Isao Okano, retired judoka player
- January 25 - , writer (d. 2024)
- January 28 - Koji Wada, actor (d. 1986)
- February 8 - Isao Shibata, former professional baseball player
- April 5 - Hiroyuki Hosoda, politician (d. 2023)
- April 7 - Makoto Kobayashi, Nobel Prize-winning physicist
- April 16 - Shoji Tabuchi, fiddler
- May 5 - Hiroaki Inoue, baseball player (d. 2025)
- May 22 - Nakamura Kichiemon II, actor, kabuki performer, and costume designer (d. 2021)
- May 29 - , guitar maker (d. 2025)
- July 8 - Hironobu Takesaki, former Chief Justice of Japan
- July 15 - Ken Kagaya, painter and writer (d. 2003)
- August 30 - Yumiko Nogawa, actress
- September 12 - Yoshio Kikugawa, football player
- October 4 - Aki Kuroda, artist
- October 17 - Nobutaka Machimura, politician (d. 2015)
Unknown date
- TÃ
Âsha Rosen VI, percussionist in traditional Japanese theatre and dance
- , print artist
Deaths
- January 25 - Monzo Akiyama, admiral (b. 1891)
- February 21 - Yoshimi Nishida, general (b. 1892)
- March 29 - Kiichi Hasegawa, admiral (b. 1894)
- March 31 - Mineichi Koga, Marshal Admiral (b. 1885)
- May 24 - Matsuji Ijuin, vice admiral (b. 1893)
- July 6 - ChÃ
«ichi Nagumo, admiral (b. 1887)
- July 8 - Takeo Takagi, admiral (b. 1892)
- July 10 - Yoshitsugu SaitÃ
Â, lieutenant general (b. 1890)
- July 19 - Shigeo Arai, freestyle swimmer (b. 1916)
- July 28 - Takeshi Takashina, general (b. 1891)
- August 1 - Kiyochi Ogata, colonel
- August 2
- Kakuji Kakuta, captain (b. 1890)
- Goichi Oya, admiral
- August 11 - Hideyoshi Obata, general (b. 1890)
- October 15 - Masafumi Arima, admiral (b. 1895)
- October 26 - Hiroyoshi Nishizawa, flying ace (b. 1920)
- November 7 - Hotsumi Ozaki, journalist and soviet spy (b. 1901)
- November 18 - TsunesaburÃ
 Makiguchi, educator (b. 1871)
- November 24 - Kunio Nakagawa, general (b. 1898)
- December 1 - Murakami Namiroku, novelist and fiction writer (b. 1865)
See also
References