1929 in Japan
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Events in the year 1929 in Japan.
Incumbents
- Emperor: Hirohito
- Prime Minister:
- Tanaka Giichi (until July 2)
- Osachi Hamaguchi (from July 2)
Events
- April 1 - openings of Kugenuma-Kaigan Station, Satte Station and Tochigi Station
- 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
Films
Births
- January 1 – Haruo Nakajima, actor, stuntman, and choreographer (d. 2017)
- January 16 – Shigeru Koyama, actor (d. 2017)
- January 26 – Sumiteru Taniguchi, Hibakusha and anti–nuclear weapons activist (d. 2017)
- February 13 – Frankie Sakai, comedian, actor, and musician (d. 1996)
- February 14 – Masamoto Yashiro, businessman
- March 20 – Kazue Takahashi, voice actress (d. 1999)
- March 22 – Yayoi Kusama, artist
- March 28 – Takehiro Irokawa, writer (d. 1989)
- April 3 – Shinichiro Sakurai, automotive engineer (d. 2011)
- April 6 – Shoichi Ozawa, actor, radio host and singer (d. 2012)
- April 10 – Yozo Aoki, football player (d. 2014)
- May 8 – Miyoshi Umeki, actress (d. 2007)
- June 1 – Tatsuro Toyoda, businessman (d. 2017)
- June 4 – Nakamura Tomijūrō V, Kabuki actor (d. 2011)
- July 5 – Chikao Ohtsuka, voice actor (d. 2015)
- September 29 – Tōru Ōhira, voice actor (d. 2016)
- September 30 – Kazuko, Princess Taka, later "Kazuko Takatsukasa", daughter of Emperor Shōwa (d. 1989)
- October 4 – Chokei Kishaba, Okinawan martial arts master (d. 2000)
- November 7 – Akio Suzuki
- November 17 – Gorō Naya, voice actor (d. 2013)
- December 12 – Toshiko Akiyoshi, jazz composer/arranger, bandleader and pianist
- Akihiko Okamura
Deaths
- February 10 – Nagai Nagayoshi, chemist and pharmacologist (b. 1844)
- March 22 – Inoue Yoshika, Marshal Admiral (b. 1845)
- April 13 – Gotō Shinpei, politician and scouting pioneer (b. 1857)
- June 29 – Prince Kuniyoshi Kuni, prince and field marshal[1] (b. 1873)
- July 25 – Shōzō Makino silent film director and producer (b. 1878)
- August 16 – Tsuda Umeko, 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)
See also
References
- ^ Fujitani, T; Cox, Alvin D (1998). Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-21371-8.
