1940 in Japan

← 1939 1938 1937 1940 in Japan → 1941 1942 1943
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	Other events of 1940 List of years in Japan

Events in the year 1940 in Japan.

Incumbents

• Emperor: Hirohito
• Prime Minister:
  • Nobuyuki Abe, until January 16,
  • Mitsumasa Yonai, until July 22,
  • Fumimaro Konoe, from July 22

Films

• Totsugu hi made

Events

• Throughout the entire year - Celebration of year 2600 in Japanese imperial year
• March 16-April 3 - Battle of Wuyuan
• May 1-June 18 - Battle of Zaoyang-Yichang
• September 22–26 - Japanese invasion of French Indochina
• November 25–30 - Central Hubei Operation

Births

• May 13 – Kōkichi Tsuburaya, marathoner (d. 1968)
• September 20 – Tarō Asō, 59th Prime Minister of Japan

Deaths

• January 1 – Fusajiro Yamauchi, entrepreneur (b. 1859)
• May 11 – Chujiro Hayashi, Reiki practitioner (b. 1880)
• June 5 – Tokugawa Iesato, politician (b. 1863)
• September 4 – Prince Nagahisa Kitashirakawa, career army officer (b. 1910)
• October 6 – Michitarō Komatsubara, general (b. 1885)
• November 24 – Saionji Kinmochi, politician, statesman and Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1849)

See also

• List of Japanese films of the 1940s

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