1930 in Japan
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Events in the year 1930 in Japan.
Incumbents
Events
- January 1 - The Ministry of Rail adopts the metric system for all of Japan's railways
- February 20 - Japanese general election, 1930
- May - 1930 Far Eastern Games held in Tokyo
- October 27-December - Wushe Incident
Births
- January 15 – Michiyo Aratama, actress (d. 2001)
- January 18 – Shōgorō Nishimura, film director (d. 2017)
- January 20 – Sadateru Arikawa, aikido teacher (d. 2003)
- January 29 – Norio Ohga, businessman and CEO of Sony (d. 2011)
- April 29 – Kyōko Kishida, actress (d. 2006)
- May 20 – Yasushi Nagao, Pulitzer Prize-winning press photographer (d. 2009)
- June 3 – Ben Wada, television director (d. 2011)
- July 3 – Kinji Fukasaku, film director (d. 2003)
- October 10 – Akiyuki Nosaka, novelist, singer and politician (d. 2015)
- December 10 – Yukio Koshimori, politician (d. 2005)
- December 17 – Makoto Moroi, composer (d. 2013)[1]
Deaths
- January 27 – Dewa Shigetō, admiral (b. 1856)
- March 2 – Katsusaburō Yamagiwa, pathologist and physician (b. 1863)
- March 28 – Uchimura Kanzō, author and pacifist (b. 1861)
- May 13 - Katai Tayama, novelist (b. 1872)
- June 30 – Yashiro Rokurō, admiral (1860)
- July 19 – Oku Yasukata, Field Marshall (b. 1847)
- October 30 – Sakichi Toyoda, inventor and industrialist (b. 1867)
- November 4 – Akiyama Yoshifuru, general (b. 1859)
- November 16 – Den Kenjirō, politician and Governor-General of Taiwan (b. 1855)
See also
References
- ^ Le 2 septembre 2013 par La Rédaction. "Décès du compositeur japonais Makoto Moroi (1930-2013) « Flash-Info « ResMusica". Resmusica.com. Retrieved 2013-09-03.
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