1935 in Japan explained

Events from the year 1935 in Japan.

Incumbents

• Emperor

Hirohito^[1]

• Prime Minister

Keisuke Okada

Governors

• Aichi Prefecture

Eitaro Shinohara

• • Akita Prefecture: Takabe Rokuzo Aomori Prefecture: Mitsumasa Kobayashi
• Ehime Prefecture: Jiro Ichinohe (until 15 January); Jiro Kan Oba (starting 15 January)
• Fukui Prefecture: Shinsuke Kondo
• Fukushima Prefecture: Ito Takehiko
• Gifu Prefecture:
  • • • until 15 January: Umekichi Miyawaki 15 January-31 May: Chi Sakamato
  • starting 31 May: Chiaki Saka
• Gunma Prefecture: Masao Kanazawa (until 15 January); Seikichi Kimishima (starting 15 June)
• Hiroshima Prefecture

Michio Yuzawa (until 15 January); Keiichi Suzuki (starting 15 January)

• Ibaraki Prefecture

Abe Kashichi (until 15 January); Ando Kyoushirou (starting 15 January)

• Iwate Prefecture: Hidehiko Ishiguro
• Kagawa Prefecture: Yoshisuke Kinoshita (until 15 June); Megumi Fujimo (starting 15 June)
• Kumamoto Prefecture

Keiichi Suzuki (until 15 January); Sekiya Nobuyuke (starting 15 January)

• Kochi Prefecture: Yozora Takehamu (until 16 October); Kobayashi Mitsumasa (starting 16 October)
• Kyoto Prefecture

Saito Munenori (until January); Shintaro Suzuki (starting January)

• Mie Prefecture: Saburo Hayakawa (until 23 June); Aijiro Tomita (starting 23 June)
• Miyagi Prefecture

Kiyoshi Nakarai (until 28 June); Jiro Ino (starting 28 June)

• Miyazaki Prefecture: Seikuchi Kimishima (until 15 January); Seiya Mishima (starting 15 January)
• Nagano Prefecture

Okoda Shuzo (until 15 January); Seiichi Omora (starting 15 January)

• Niigata Prefecture

Chiba Ryo (until 15 June); Miyawaki Umekichi (starting 15 June)

• Okinawa Prefecture

Jiro Ino (until 28 June); Hisashi Kurashige (starting 28 June)

• Osaka Prefecture

Shinobu Agata (until month unknown)

• Saga Prefecture

Shizuo Furukawa

• Saitama Prefecture

Kazume Iinuma (until 25 May); Saito Juri (starting 25 May)

• Shiname Prefecture: Masaki Fukumura
• Tochigi Prefecture: Gunzo Kayaba
• Tokyo

Masayasu Kouksaka (until 15 January); Sukenari Yokoya (starting 15 January)

• Toyama Prefecture: Saito Itsuki (until 25 May); Ginjiro Toki (starting 25 May)
• Yamagata Prefecture: Taro Kanamori

Events

• January 8 - Battle of Khalkhyn Temple
• February 11  - Tosoh was founded in Tokuyama (now Shunan) Yamaguchi Prefecture, as predecessor name was Toyo Soda.
• June - North Chahar Incident
• June 27 - Chin-Doihara Agreement
• July 5 - establishment of Ōtone Prefectural Natural Park.
• August 9 - establishment of Mineokasankei Prefectural Natural Park, Kujūkuri Prefectural Natural Park, Takagoyama Prefectural Natural Park and Yōrō Keikoku Okukiyosumi Prefectural Natural Park.
• September 27 - opening of Tōbu-Izumi Station.
• October 20 - opening of Musahiro-Tokiwa Station (now Tokiwadai Station (Tokyo)).
• Unknown date  - Yakult founded in Fukuoka City.
• Establishment of Naoki Prize and Akutagawa Prize.

Films

• January 20 - Orizuru Osen
• November 21 - An Inn in Tokyo
• date unknown - Kodakara Sodo

Births

• January 4  - Toru Terasawa, runner
• January 31  - Kenzaburō Ōe, writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2023)
• February 22  - Hisako Kyōda, Japanese voice actress
• March 17  - Seiji Yokoyama, musician (d. 2017)
• April 17  - Masanori Hata, zoologist, essayist, and filmmaker (d. 2023)
• May 15  - Akihiro Miwa, singer, actor, author and drag queen
• June 10  - Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese manga artist (d. 2015)
• June 26  - Sumiko Shirakawa, voice actress (body discovered. 2015)
• June 29  - Katsuya Nomura, baseball player and manager (d. 2020)
• July 12  - Satoshi Ōmura, biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate^[2]
• July 23  - Yukiji Asaoka, singer and actress (d. 2018)
• August 24  - Tsutomu Hata, 51st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2017)
• September 1  - Seiji Ozawa, conductor (d. 2024)
• September 14  - Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (d. 2008)
• October 2  - Noriko Ohara, actress, voice actress and narrator
• October 9  - Teruyoshi Nakano, special effects director
• October 10  - Yumiko Kurahashi, writer (d. 2005)
• October 15  - Yukio Ninagawa, theater director (d. 2016)
• October 29  - Isao Takahata, film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2018)
• November 15  - Kaneta Kimotsuki, voice actor (d. 2016)
• November 17 – Masatoshi Sakai, Japanese record producer^{[3] [4]}
• November 28  - Masahito, Prince Hitachi
• December 10  - Shūji Terayama, poet, writer, film director, and photographer (d. 1983)
• December 19  - Taizo Nishimuro, businessman (d. 2017)
• date unknown - Keizaburo Tejima, artist and author

Deaths

• January 17  - Ishikawa Chiyomatsu, biologist, zoologist, and ichthyologist (b. 1861)
• February 28  - Tsubouchi Shōyō, author, critic and educator (b. 1859)
• March 8  - Hachikō, a faithful Akita, on the spot where he had awaited his dead owner for nine years^[5]
• March 20  - Gyoshū Hayami, painter (b. 1894)
• August 12  - Tetsuzan Nagata, general (b. 1884)

See also

• 1935 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: Heterocycles. 2006. Sendai Institute of Heterocyclic Chemistry. 7.
3. https://news.1242.com/article/107044 11/17は日本歌謡史の流れを変えた名ディレクター・酒井政利の誕生日【大人のMusic Calendar】
4. https://hochi.news/articles/20210719-OHT1T51066.html?page=1 音楽プロデューサー・酒井政利さん、死去　８５歳
5. "Hollywood the latest to fall for tale of Hachiko," The Japan Times, June 25, 2009