1929 in Japan

← 1928 1927 1926 1929 in Japan → 1930 1931 1932
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	Other events of 1929 List of years in Japan

Events in the year 1929 in Japan.

Incumbents

• Emperor: Hirohito
• Prime Minister:
  • Tanaka Giichi (until July 2)
  • Osachi Hamaguchi (from July 2)

Events

• April 1 - openings of Kugenuma-Kaigan Station, Satte Station and Tochigi Station
• 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

Films

• Akeyuku Sora
• Days of Youth
• Sakanaya Honda

Births

• January 1 – Haruo Nakajima, actor, stuntman, and choreographer (d. 2017)
• January 16 – Shigeru Koyama, actor (d. 2017)
• January 26 – Sumiteru Taniguchi, Hibakusha and anti–nuclear weapons activist (d. 2017)
• February 13 – Frankie Sakai, comedian, actor, and musician (d. 1996)
• February 14 – 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
• November 17 – Gorō Naya, voice actor (d. 2013)
• December 12 – Toshiko Akiyoshi, jazz composer/arranger, bandleader and pianist
• Akihiko Okamura

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)
• June 29 – Prince Kuniyoshi Kuni, prince and field marshal^[1] (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)

See also

• List of Japanese films of the 1920s

References

References