1941 in Japan

← 1940 1939 1938 1941 in Japan → 1942 1943 1944
Decades:	1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s
See also:	Other events of 1941 List of years in Japan

Events in the year 1941 in Japan.

Incumbents

• Emperor: Hirohito
• Prime Minister:
  • Fumimaro Konoe(until October 18)
  • Hideki Tōjō(from October 18)

Events

• January 25 – Panjiayu tragedy
• January 30-March 1 – Battle of South Henan
• March – Western Hubei Operation
• March 14-April 9 – Battle of Shanggao
• May 7–27 – Battle of South Shanxi
• September 6-October 8 – Battle of Changsha (1941)
• December 7 – Attack on Pearl Harbor
• December 7–13 – Niihau Incident
• December 8–10 – Battle of Guam (1941)
• December 8–23 – Battle of Wake Island
• December 8–25 – Battle of Hong Kong

Births

• January 5 – Hayao Miyazaki, film director, producer, screenwriter, animator, author, and manga artist
• January 22 – Rintaro, anime director

Deaths

• January 22 – Hayashi Tadataka, former daimyō (b. 1848)
• August 22 – Hasegawa Shigure, playwright (b. 1879)
• September 2 – Kei Okami, physician, first Japanese woman to obtain a degree in Western medicine from a Western university (b. 1859)
• December 11 – Masaaki Iinuma, aviator, flew the first Japanese-built aircraft from Japan to Europe (b. 1912)
• December 13 – Shigenori Nishikaichi (b. ca.1919)

See also

• List of Japanese films of the 1940s

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