1929 in Japan

← 1928 1927 1926 1929 in Japan → 1930 1931 1932
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	Other events of 1929 History of Japan  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year 1929 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 4 (昭和4年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents[]

• Emperor: Hirohito^[1]
• Prime Minister:
  • Tanaka Giichi: until July 2
  • Osachi Hamaguchi: from July 2

Events[]

• January 27 – An auto parts brand, Akebono Brake was founded, as predecessor name of Akebono Asbest Manufacturing.^{[page needed]}
• April 1 - openings of Kugenuma-Kaigan Station, Satte Station and Tochigi Station
• April 15 – Hankyu Department Store Osaka Umeda officially open in Kita-ku, Osaka.^{[citation needed]}
• 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
• founded of Pola Orbis, as predecessor name was Pola Chemical Industries in Shizuoka City.^{[page needed]}

Films[]

• Akeyuku Sora
• Days of Youth
• Sakanaya Honda

Births[]

Miyoshi Umeki

Toshiko Akiyoshi

• January 1 – Haruo Nakajima, actor, stuntman, and choreographer (d. 2017)
• January 16 – Shigeru Koyama, actor (d. 2017)
• January 20 – Masaharu Kawakatsu, zoologist
• January 23 – Kenji Suzuki, announcer
• January 26 – Sumiteru Taniguchi, survivor of the Nagasaki atomic bombing, and anti–nuclear weapons activist (d. 2017)
• January 30 – Isamu Akasaki, physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021)
• February 13 – Frankie Sakai, comedian, actor, and musician (d. 1996)
• February 14
  • Hirokazu Kobayashi, aikidoka (d. 1998)
  • 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, medical scientist, educator (d. 2010)
• November 17 – Gorō Naya, voice actor (d. 2013)
• November 28 – Kuniko Mukōda, screenwriter (d. 1981)
• December 12 – Toshiko Akiyoshi, jazz composer/arranger, bandleader and pianist
• Unknown – Akihiko Okamura, photographer (d. 1985)

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)
• April 27 – Hōjō Tokiyuki, educator, mathematician and politician (b. 1858)
• June 29 – Prince Kuniyoshi Kuni, prince and field marshal^[2] (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)
• November 22 – Kamakichi Kishinouye, marine biologist and cnidariologist (b. 1867)
• December 20 – Ryūsei Kishida, painter (b. 1891)

See also[]

• List of Japanese films of the 1920s

References[]

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