1927 in Japan

← 1926 1925 1924 1927 in Japan → 1928 1929 1930
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	Other events of 1927 List of years in Japan

Events in the year 1927 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 2 (昭和2年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

• Emperor: Hirohito
• Prime Minister:
  • Wakatsuki Reijirō (until April 20)
  • Tanaka Giichi (From April 20)

Events

• January – Shōwa financial crisis
• February 8 – Emperor Taishō is buried in the Musashi Imperial Graveyard in Hachiōji, Tokyo
• March 7 – Kita Tango earthquake
• April 20 – Prime Minister Wakatsuki Reijirō is forced to resign during the Shōwa financial crisis and is succeeded by Tanaka Giichi.
• August 24 – Mihonoseki Incident
• December 30 – Japan's first subway line started running between Asakusa station and Ueno station, Tokyo. The line was called Ginza Line in 1953 (Showa 28).

Births

• January 28 – Hiroshi Teshigahara, film maker (d. 2001)
• February 14 – Seizō Katō, voice actor (d. 2014)
• June 16 – Yoshiro Hayashi, politician (d. 2017)
• August 1 – Hiroshi Mitsuzuka, politician (d. 2004)
• August 15 – Akio Sato, politician (d. 2007)
• August 24 – Tatsumi Kumashiro, film director (d. 1995)
• September 10 – Sachiko, Princess Hisa, second child of Emperor Shōwa (d. 1928)
• September 16 – Sadako Ogata, academic, diplomat and author
• November 7 – Hiroshi Yamauchi, businessman (d. 2013)
• December 16 – Akihiko Hirata, film actor (d. 1984)

Deaths

• February 6 – Kamio Mitsuomi, admiral (b. 1856)
• February 23 – Noda Utarō, entrepreneur, politician (b. 1853)
• March 20 – Kusunose Yukihiko, general (b. 1858)
• May 1 – Tetsugorō Yorozu, painter (b. 1885)
• May 2 – Fukuda Hideko, author, educator and feminist (b. 1865)
• July 24 – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, short story writer, drug-related suicide (b. 1892)
• September 5 – Katō Sadakichi, admiral (b. 1861)
• September 18 – Kenjirō Tokutomi, philosopher and writer (b. 1868)
• September 24 – Yamagata Isaburō, politician (b. 1858)
• October 26 – Jūkichi Yagi, poet (b. 1898)
• November 15 – Murakami Kakuichi, admiral (b. 1862)

See also

• List of Japanese films of the 1920s

References