1942 in Japan explained

Events in the year 1942 in Japan.

Incumbents

- Akita Prefecture: Fumi Aomori Prefecture: Seiichi Ueda (until 9 June); Shunsuke Yamada (starting 9 June)
Ehime Prefecture: Masatomi Hatakeda (until 7 July); Ryuichi Fukumoto (starting 7 July)
Fukui Prefecture:
- - - until 9 January: Kubota 9 January-15 June: Shigeo Miyoshi
- starting 15 June: Nagano Wakamatsu
Fukushima Prefecture: Sumio Hisakawa (until 7 July); Yoshio Araki (starting 7 July)
Gifu Prefecture: Tetsushin Sudo (until 23 May); Miyoshi Shigeo (starting 23 May)
- Gunma Prefecture: Goro Murata Hiroshima Prefecture

Tokiji Yoshinaga (until 15 June); Saiichiro Miyamura (starting 15 June)

Kanichi Naito (until 7 October); Tsujiyama (starting 7 October)

Iwate Prefecture: Yoshifumi Yamauchi (until 15 June); Osamuzo Suzuki (starting 15 June)
Kagawa Prefecture: Osamu Eianhyaku (until 9 January); Yoshiji Kosuga (starting 9 January)
Kanagawa Prefecture

Mitsuma Matsumura (until month unknown)

Chioji Yukisawa (until 10 June); Hikari Akira (starting 10 June)

Mie Prefecture: Yoshiro Nakano (until 7 October); Koji Soga (starting 7 October)
Miyagi Prefecture

Nobuo Hayashin (until 7 October); Otomaru Kato (starting 7 October)

Noburo Suzuki (until 9 January); Nagoya Osamu (starting 9 January)

(until 23 May); Shogo Tanaka (starting 23 May)

Miyano Shozo (until 9 January); Toshio Otsu (starting 9 January)

Shiname Prefecture: Yasuo Otsubo (until 9 January); Goro Koizumi (starting 9 January)
Tochigi Prefecture: Saburo Yamagata (until 9 January); Sakurai Yasuemon (starting 9 January)
Tokyo

Jitsuzo Kawanishi (until 9 January); Matsumura Miro (starting 9 January)

- Toyama Prefecture: Kingo Machimura Yamagata Prefecture: Hee Yamauchi (until 7 July); Akira Saito (starting 7 July)

Below, events of World War II have the "WWII" preface

11 January - Japanese paratroopers land on Sulawesi.
12 January - Japan declares war on the Dutch.
22 January - Hideki Tōjō warns Australia that "if you continue resistance, we Japanese will destroy you."
4 February - Japan demands the surrender of Singapore.
17 February - Singapore is renamed Shōnan ("Light of the South").
20 March - The navy minister, Admiral Shigetarō Shimada says that in view of the Allies' "Retaliation and hatred", Japan would no longer follow recognized rules of sea warfare.
18 April - Doolittle Raid, the first bombing raid on the Japanese home islands
25 May - Four ships leave Hokkaido to stage a diversionary raid on the Aleutian Islands.
4–7 June - Battle of Midway
21 August - Battle of the Tenaru
11–12 October - Battle of Cape Esperance
12–15 November - Naval Battle of Guadalcanal

May 11 - Sakutarō Hagiwara, writer, poet and critic (b. 1886)
May 29 - Akiko Yosano, author and poet (b. 1878)
June 4
- Jisaku Okada, Naval officer, killed in action at the Battle of Midway (b. 1897)
- Tamon Yamaguchi, admiral (b. 1892)
June 5 - Ryusaku Yanagimoto, captain (b. 1894)
August 21 - Kiyonao Ichiki^[3] (b. 1892)
August 26 - Junichi Sasai, aviator (b. 1918)
September 5 - Toshinari Maeda, general (b. 1885)
October 12 - Aritomo Gotō, admiral (b. 1888)
October 21 - Toshio Ōta, aviator (b. 1919)
October 26 - Yumio Nasu, major general (b. 1892)
November 5 - Kiyoura Keigo, politician and Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1850)
November 23 - Tomitarō Horii, lieutenant general (b. 1890)
December 4 - Atsushi Nakajima, author (b. 1909)

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