1928 in Japan

← 1927 1926 1925 1928 in Japan → 1929 1930 1931
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	Other events of 1928 List of years in Japan

Events from the year 1928 in Japan.

Incumbents

• Emperor: Hirohito
• Prime Minister: Tanaka Giichi

Events

• February 20 – Japanese general election, 1928
• March 15 – March 15 incident
• May 3 – Jinan Incident
• June 4 – Huanggutun Incident
• November 10 – Enthronement of Hirohito as Emperor of Japan

Births

• January 1 – Masatoshi Yoshino, geographer, climatologist (d. 2017)
• January 2
  • Daisaku Ikeda, religious leader
  • Tamio Oki, voice actor (d. 2017)
• January 22 – Yoshihiko Amino, historian (d. 2004)
• March 9 – Tatsumi Hijikata, choreographer, (d. 1986)
• March 10 – Kiyoshi Atsumi, actor (d. 1996)
• March 16 – Wakanohana Kanji I, sumo wrestler (d. 2010)
• March 27
  • Ryuji Saikachi, voice actor (d. 2017)
  • Seiko Tanabe, author
• May 8 – Tatsuhiko Shibusawa, novelist, art critic, and translator (d. 1987)
• June 26 – Yoshiro Nakamatsu, inventor
• November 3 – Osamu Tezuka, manga artist, cartoonist, animator, film producer and medical doctor (d. 1989)
• November 30 – Takako Doi, politician (Speakers of the House) (d. 2014)

Deaths

• March 8 – Sachiko, Princess Hisa, second child of Emperor Shōwa (b. 1927)
• April 5 – Okura Kihachiro, entrepreneur (b. 1837)
• May 21 – Hideyo Noguchi, bacteriologist (b. 1876)
• July 23 – Zenzō Kasai, novelist (b. 1887)
• October 25 – Hirotsu Ryurō, novelist (b. 1861)
• November 3 – Uryū Shigeko, educator (b. 1862)
• December 25 – Kaoru Osanai, theater director, playwright, and actor (b. 1881)

See also

• List of Japanese films of the 1920s

References