1934 in Japan

← 1933 1932 1931 1934 in Japan → 1935 1936 1937
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	Other events of 1934 History of Japan  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year 1934 in Japan.

Incumbents

• Emperor: Hirohito
• Prime Minister:
  • Saitō Makoto
  • Keisuke Okada

Events

• March 21 – 1934 Hakodate fire, Japanese government official report, 2166 persons were perished.
• April – Teijin Incident: Ministry of Justice ordered the arrest of the Vice-Minister of Finance, director of the Bank of Taiwan and president of Teijin
• July 3 – Teijin Incident: Prime Minister Saito dissolves the government, on receiving word that a number of cabinet ministers were also scheduled to be arrested.
• September 21 – 1934 Muroto typhoon
• November – Military Academy Incident
• Unknown date – Showa Rayon, as predecessor of Kureha founded.

Births

• January 1 – Kiyoshi Kodama, actor (d. 2011)
• January 10 – Hiroyuki Nagato, actor (d. 2011)
• February 3 – Noboru Akiyama, baseball pitcher (d. 2000)
• March 9 – Haruko Wakita, academic (d. 2016)
• April 29 – Akira Takarada, actor
• June 25 – Kinya Aikawa, actor, voice actor and tarento (d. 2015)
• June 26 – Toru Goto, freestyle swimmer
• July 14 – Jun Hazumi, voice actor
• July 25 – Kazuya Tatekabe, voice actor (d. 2015)
• August 20 – Yoko Tsukasa, actress
• September 26 – Shinji Maki, comedian (d. 2013)
• October 20 – Empress Michiko, wife of emperor Akihito
• November 22 – Osamu Kobayashi, voice actor (d. 2011)
• December 28 – Yujiro Ishihara, actor and singer (d. 1987)

Deaths

• January 9 – Hakaru Hashimoto, medical scientist (b. 1881)
• January 13 – Bunzō Hayata, botanist (b. 1874)
• January 16 – Tokihiko Okada, silent film actor (b. 1903)
• February 24 – Sanjugo Naoki, novelist (b. 1891)
• May 30 – Tōgō Heihachirō, admiral of the fleet (b. 1848)
• June 26 – Naitō Torajirō, historian and Sinologist (b. 1866)
• September 1 – Yumeji Takehisa, nihonga painter (b. 1884)

See also

• List of Japanese films of the 1930s