1940 in Japan
Events in the year 1940 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 15 (昭和15年) in the Japanese calendar.
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Incumbents
Founding Ceremony of the Hakko-Ichiu Monument on April 3, 1940. It had Prince Chichibu's calligraphy of Hakkō ichiu, carved on its front side.[1]
- Emperor: Hirohito[2]
- Prime Minister:
- Nobuyuki Abe, until January 16,
- Mitsumasa Yonai, until July 22,
- Fumimaro Konoe, from July 22
Events
- Throughout the entire year - Celebration of year 2600 in Japanese imperial year
- January 15 – A large fire destroys much of hizuoka city center.
- 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
- January 2 – Masahiko Tsugawa, actor (d. 2018)
- February 11 – Kinryuu Arimoto, voice actor (d. 2019)
- May 13 – Kōkichi Tsuburaya, marathoner (d. 1968)
- May 25 – Nobuyoshi Araki, photographer and artist
- June 3 – Koichi Kishi, politician (d. 2017)
- July 2 – Ruriko Asaoka, actress
- July 19 – Hanako, Princess Hitachi, wife of Masahito, Prince Hitachi
- August 20 – Gisaburō Sugii, anime director and Nihonga artist
- September 20 – Tarō Asō, 59th Prime Minister of Japan
- October 30 – Hidetoshi Nagasawa, sculptor and architect (d. 2018)
- December 4 – Fumio Kyūma, politician
Deaths
- January 1 – Fusajiro Yamauchi, entrepreneur (b. 1859)
- March 8 – Princess Masako Takeda, sixth daughter of Emperor Meiji (b. 1888)
- 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 20 – Hideo Oguma, poet (b. 1901)
- November 24 – Saionji Kinmochi, politician, statesman and Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1849)
See also
References
- David C. Earhart, Certain Victory, 2008, p. 63.
- "Hirohito | Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
Further reading
- Bloch, Leon Bryce and Lamar Middleton, ed. The World Over in 1940 (1941) detailed coverage of world events online free; 914pp
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