1930 in Japan explained

Events in the year 1930 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 5 (昭和5年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

• Emperor

Hirohito^[1]

• Prime Minister

Osachi Hamaguchi

Events

• January 1  - The Ministry of Rail adopts the metric system for all of Japan's railways.
• February 4  - Prince Takamatsu marries Kikuko Tokugawa.
• February 20  - 1930 Japanese general election: The Rikken Minseitō party, led by Prime Minister Osachi Hamaguchi, won an overall majority in the House of Representatives. Voter turnout was 83.34%.
• May 5  - Iwatani Industry has founded in Osaka. (As predecessor name was Iwatani Naoji Shoten)
• May 24 - 27  - 1930 Far Eastern Games held in Tokyo.^[2]
• October 27 - December  - Wushe Incident
• November 14  - Prime Minister Osachi Hamaguchi is shot inside Tokyo Station by Tomeo Sagoya in a failed assassination attempt. The wounds kept Hamaguchi hospitalized for several months.
• November 18  - the Buddhist religious movement Soka Gakkai is formed by educator Tsunesaburō Makiguchi.
• December 21  - The First Gōdō Bank and Sanyō Bank were merged, that became name for Okayama Chūgoku Bank.
• Unknown date
  • According to All Japan Pachinko Association confirmed report, first standards pachinko parlor open in Nagoya.
  • NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories was founded^[3]

Births

• January 4  - Minoru Makihara, businessman and CEO of Mitsubishi Corporation (d. 2020)
• January 15  - Michiyo Aratama, actress (d. 2001)
• January 16  - Shōmei Tōmatsu, photographer (d. 2012)
• 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 23  - Shun Akiyama, literary critic (d. 2013)
• April 24  - Yumi Katsura, wedding fashion designer (d. 2024)
• 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)
• June 15  - Ikuo Hirayama, painter (d. 2009)
• June 29  - Sachiko Hidari, actress (d. 2001)
• July 3  - Kinji Fukasaku, film director (d. 2003)
• August 1  - Satoru Kobayashi, film director (d. 2001)
• September 12  - Akira Suzuki, chemist
• October 8  - Tōru Takemitsu, composer (d. 1996)
• October 10  - Akiyuki Nosaka, novelist, singer and politician (d. 2015)
• October 12  - Keiichi Komura, boxer (d. 2023)
• November 10  - Michiya Mihashi, enka singer (d. 1996)
• November 11  - Minako Oba, enka author and social critic (d. 2007)
• December 10  - Yukio Koshimori, politician (d. 2005)
• December 17  - Makoto Moroi, composer (d. 2013)^[4]
• December 30  - Takeshi Kaikō, author (d. 1989)

Deaths

• January 27  - Dewa Shigetō, admiral (b. 1856)
• March 2  - Katsusaburō Yamagiwa, pathologist and physician (b. 1863)
• March 10 - Misuzu Kaneko, poet (b. 1903)
• March 28  - Uchimura Kanzō, author and pacifist (b. 1861)
• May 10  - Kanzan Shimomura, nihonga painter (b. 1873)
• 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 9  - Asano Sōichirō, businessman (b. 1848)
• 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

Notes and References

1. Web site: Hirohito Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts . Encyclopedia Britannica . 27 March 2019 . en.
2. Book: Bell . Daniel . Encyclopedia of international games . 2003 . McFarland & Co . Jefferson, N.C. . 0-7864-1026-4 . 474.
3. Book: Hart . Jeffrey A. . Technology, Television, and Competition: The Politics of Digital TV . 5 February 2004 . Cambridge University Press . 978-1-139-44224-4 . 84 . en.
4. Web site: Le 2 septembre 2013 par La Rédaction . Décès du compositeur japonais Makoto Moroi (1930-2013) « Flash-Info « ResMusica . Resmusica.com . 2013-09-03.