1930 in Japan

← 1929 1928 1927 1930 in Japan → 1931 1932 1933
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	Other events of 1930 List of years in Japan

Events in the year 1930 in Japan.

Incumbents

• Emperor: Hirohito
• Prime Minister: Osachi Hamaguchi

Events

• January 1 - The Ministry of Rail adopts the metric system for all of Japan's railways
• February 20 - Japanese general election, 1930
• May - 1930 Far Eastern Games held in Tokyo
• October 27-December - Wushe Incident

Births

• January 15 – Michiyo Aratama, actress (d. 2001)
• January 18 – Shōgorō Nishimura, film director (d. 2017)
• January 20 – Sadateru Arikawa, aikido teacher (d. 2003)
• January 29 – Norio Ohga, businessman and CEO of Sony (d. 2011)
• April 29 – Kyōko Kishida, actress (d. 2006)
• May 20 – Yasushi Nagao, Pulitzer Prize-winning press photographer (d. 2009)
• June 3 – Ben Wada, television director (d. 2011)
• July 3 – Kinji Fukasaku, film director (d. 2003)
• October 10 – Akiyuki Nosaka, novelist, singer and politician (d. 2015)
• December 10 – Yukio Koshimori, politician (d. 2005)
• December 17 – Makoto Moroi, composer (d. 2013)^[1]

Deaths

• January 27 – Dewa Shigetō, admiral (b. 1856)
• March 2 – Katsusaburō Yamagiwa, pathologist and physician (b. 1863)
• March 28 – Uchimura Kanzō, author and pacifist (b. 1861)
• May 13 - Katai Tayama, novelist (b. 1872)
• June 30 – Yashiro Rokurō, admiral (1860)
• July 19 – Oku Yasukata, Field Marshall (b. 1847)
• October 30 – Sakichi Toyoda, inventor and industrialist (b. 1867)
• November 4 – Akiyama Yoshifuru, general (b. 1859)
• November 16 – Den Kenjirō, politician and Governor-General of Taiwan (b. 1855)

See also

• 1930 in Japanese football
• List of Japanese films of the 1930s

References