1932 in Japan explained
Events in the year 1932 in Japan.
Incumbents
Hirohito[1]
until May 15
(Acting) May 15 - May 26
from May 26
until July
Takahashi Korekiyo
Governors
Yujiro Osaki (until 28 June); Endo Ryusaku (starting 28 June)
- Akita Prefecture: Takeshi Uchida (until 28 June); Takabe Rokuzo (starting 28 June)
- Aomori Prefecture: Teizaburo Miyamoto (until 28 June); Taku Yasunobu (starting 28 June)
- Ehime Prefecture: Kume Shigeo (until 28 June); Jiro Ichinohe (starting 28 June)
- Fukui Prefecture: Keizo Ichimura (until 8 March); Shigeo Odachi (starting 8 March)
- Fukushima Prefecture: Murai Hachiro (until 28 June); Akagi Tomoharo (starting 28 June)
- Gifu Prefecture: Takehiko Ito (until 28 June); Umekichi Miyawaki (starting 28 June)
- Gunma Prefecture: Masao Kanazawa
- Hiroshima Prefecture
Ryo Chiba (until 28 June); Michio Yuzawa (starting 28 June)
Seikichi Kimishima (until 18 June); Abe Kashichi (starting 18 June)
- Iwate Prefecture: Hidehiko Ishiguro
- Kagawa Prefecture: Akira Ito (until 28 June); Seikichi Kimijima (starting 28 June)
- Kanagawa Prefecture
Sukenari Yokoyama (starting month unknown)
- Kochi Prefecture: Kodora Akamatsu (until 4 March); Sakama Osamu (starting 4 March)
- Kumamoto Prefecture
Kenichi Yamashita (until 28 June); Keiichi Suzuki (starting 28 June)
Sukenari Yokoyama (until 28 June); Saito Munenori (starting 28 June)
Michio Yuzawa
Ishigaki Kuraji
Toyoji Obata (until 28 June); Ryo Chiba (starting 28 June)
Jiro Ino
Saito Munenori (until month unknown); Shinobu Agata (starting month unknown)
Saburo Hayakawa
Umekichi Miyawaki (until 28 June); Shigezo Fukushima (starting 28 June)
- Shiname Prefecture: Rinsaku Yagi (starting 28 June); Masaki Fukumura (starting 28 June)
- Tochigi Prefecture: Chokichi Toshima (until 28 June); Nakarai Kiyoshi (starting 28 June)
- Tokyo
- until 12 January: Hasegawa Hisakazu 12 January-27 May: Shohei Fujinuma
- starting 27 May: Masayasu Kouksaka
- Toyama Prefecture: Keiichi Suzuki (until 28 June); Saito Itsuki (starting 28 June)
- Yamagata Prefecture: Sada Kawamura (until 28 June); Ishihara Yajiro (starting 28 June)
Events
Films
Births
- March 7 - Momoko Kōchi, actress (d. 1998)
- March 31 - Nagisa Oshima, film director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
- April 3 - Ineko Arima, film actress
- April 4 - Meisei Goto, author (d. 1999)
- June 24 - Hirohisa Fujii, politician and former Finance Minister (d. 2022)
- June 25 - Ichiro Ogimura, table tennis player (d. 1994)
- August 11
- September 10 - Yasuo Yamada, voice actor (d. 1995)
- September 18 - Hisashi Owada, diplomat and law professor
- September 30 - Shintarō Ishihara, Japanese author and politician (d. 2022)
- October 2 - Masanobu Deme, film director (d. 2016)
- November 20
- November 23 - Kunie Tanaka, film actor (d. 2021)
- December 15 - Tatsuya Nakadai, film actor
- December 25 - Jun Etō, literary critic (d. 1999)
Deaths
- February 9 - Junnosuke Inoue, businessman and banker (assassinated) (b. 1869)
- March 5 - Dan Takuma, businessman (assassinated) (b. 1858)
- March 24 - Motojirō Kajii, writer (b. 1901)
- March 26 - Kigoshi Yasutsuna, general (b. 1854)
- May 15 - Inukai Tsuyoshi, politician and Prime Minister of Japan (assassinated) (b. 1855)
- May 26 - Yoshinori Shirakawa, general, (b. 1869)
- June 14 - Yamamoto Yaeko, nurse, wife of Joseph Hardy Neesima (b. 1845)
- July 24 - Hidaka Sōnojō, admiral (b. 1848)
See also
Notes and References
- Web site: Hirohito Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts . Encyclopedia Britannica . 27 March 2019 . en.
- Book: Howland. Douglas. White. Luise. The State of Sovereignty: Territories, Laws, Populations. 2009. Indiana University Press. 978-0-253-22016-5. 83.
- Book: Beckmann. George M.. Okubo. Genji. The Japanese Communist Party 1922-1945. registration. 1969. Stanford University Press. 978-0-8047-0674-2. 239.