1933 in Japan

Decades:	1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s;
See also:	Other events of 1933; History of Japan • Timeline • Years

Events from the year 1933 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 8 (昭和8年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents[]

January 1-May 31 – Defense of the Great Wall
February 21–March 1 – Battle of Rehe
March 2 – 1933 Sanriku earthquake. Although the earthquake itself does little damage, the associated tsunami, recorded at a height of 28.7 metres (94 ft) at Ōfunato, Iwate, caused extensive damage, destroys many homes and causes numerous casualties.^[2]
April 1 – opening of Inariyama-kōen Station
April 15 – opening of Moro Station and Ogose Station
May – The 9th Far Eastern Games are held in Tokyo.
May 10 – Tateishi Electronic Manufacturing, as predecessor of Omron was founded.^{[page needed]}
May 31 – Tanggu Truce
July 12 – opening of Naka-Itabashi Station
August 1 – opening of Fujimigaoka Station, Inokashira-kōen Station, Kugayama Station, Takaido Station and Hamadayama Station
September 28 – Isetan Department Store of Shinjuku, officially opens^[3]
October 10 – opening of Keisei Ueno Station
establishment of Tokubetsu-keibi-tai (Metropolitan Police Department)

Yoko Ono

Emperor Akihito

January 2
- On Kawara, conceptual artist (d. 2014)
- Morimura Seiichi, novelist, author
January 11 – Mariko Okada, film actress
February 16 – Yoshishige Yoshida, film director and screenwriter
February 18 – Yoko Ono, singer, songwriter, and peace activist^[4]
March 1 – Yoko Minamida, film actress (d. 2009)
March 18 – Eikoh Hosoe, photographer and filmmaker
April 15 – Kōji Yada, voice actor (d. 2014)
April 16 – Takeo Watanabe, musician and composer (d. 1989)
May 10 – Chikage Oogi, actress and politician
May 15 – Juzo Itami, film director (d. 1997)
May 23 – Shōzō Iizuka, voice actor
May 29 – Yoshiaki Tsutsumi, businessman
July 17 – Keiko Awaji, film actress (d. 2014)
August 1 – Masaichi Kaneda, baseball pitcher
August 9 – Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, actress, and author of children's book
August 16 – Bunta Sugawara, actor (d. 2014)
September 18 – Hiroshi Suzuki, Olympic swimmer
October 16 – Nobuyo Oyama, voice actress
October 20 – Chikara Hashimoto, baseball player (d. 2017)
October 22 – Mitsuko Kusabue, film actress
November 8 – Ayako Wakao, film actress
November 11 – Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda, Japanese artistic gymnast
December 1 – Fujiko F. Fujio, cartoonist (d. 1996)
December 10 – Mako, actor, voice actor and singer (d. 2006)
December 23 – Akihito, 125th Emperor of Japan, fifth child of Emperor Hirohito and Empress Kōjun^[5]

January 23 – Sakai Toshihiko, writer and historian (b. 1871)
February 20 – Takiji Kobayashi, author and novelist (b. 1903)
March 18 – Sakuzō Yoshino, academic, and political scientist (b. 1878)
July 27 – Nobuyoshi Mutō, field marshal, Commander of the Kwantung Army, ambassador (b. 1868)
July 31 – Shimizu Shikin, novelist and women's rights activist (b. 1868)
September 21 – Kenji Miyazawa, poet and author of children's books (b. 1896)
October 15 – Inazō Nitobe, economist, author and educator (b. 1862)
November 3 – Princess Nobuko Asaka, daughter of Emperor Meiji (b. 1891)
November 8 – Uehara Yūsaku, field marshal (b. 1856)
December 8 – Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, admiral and Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1852)

^ "Hirohito | Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
^ The Great Meiji Sanriku tsunami of 1896 is estimated to have generated a wave 38.2 meters high (Masayuki Nakao, "The Great Meiji Sanriku Tsunami" Archived 2008-12-23 at the Wayback Machine
^ Freedman, Alisa (2011). Tokyo in Transit: Japanese Culture on the Rails and Road. Stanford University Press. p. 144. ISBN 978-0-8047-7145-0.
^ "Yoko Ono | Biography, Art, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
^ "Akihito | Biography, Reign, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.