1932 in Japan

Events in the year 1932 in Japan.

Incumbents

January 9 - Sakuradamon Incident (1932)
January 25 - Nippon Bakelight, later Sumitomo Bakelight was founded.
January 25-February 4 - Defense of Harbin
January 28-March 3 - January 28 Incident
February 20 - 1932 Japanese general election
May 15 - May 15 Incident
July 15 - Takashimaya Department Store in Osaka Nanba was officially open.
August 12 - Tokyo Takarazuka Cinema Production, as predecessor of Toho was founded.
September 1 - Topcon was founded.
September 15 - the Japan-Manchukuo Protocol is signed by Japan giving Japanese forces permission to station in Manchukuo
December 16 - Shirokiya Department Store fire
Winter - The Japanese Communist Party make a concerted effort to reestablish its central organization during a time of police repression
Unknown date
* Pharmacy retailer, Matsumoto Kiyoshi founded in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, as predecessor name was Matsumoto Pharmacy Shop.
* Nanzan Secondary School, later Nanzan University was founded in Nagoya.

January 11 - Takkō Ishimori, voice actor
January 30 - Kazuo Inamori, philanthropist, entrepreneur, Zen Buddhist priest, and both founder of Kyocera and KDDI
March 7 - Momoko Kōchi, actress
March 26 - Katsumoto Saotome, writer and pacifist
March 31 - Nagisa Oshima, film director and screenwriter
April 3 - Ineko Arima, film actress
April 4 - Meisei Goto, author
April 16 - Shigeko Sasamori, Hiroshima bombing survivor and peace/anti-nuclear activist
June 24 - Hirohisa Fujii, politician and former Finance Minister
June 25 - Ichiro Ogimura, table tennis player
August 11
*Asei Kobayashi, composer and lyricist
*Keiko Kishi, film actress, writer, and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador
September 10 - Yasuo Yamada, voice actor
September 18 - Hisashi Owada, diplomat and law professor
September 30 - Shintarō Ishihara, Japanese author and politician
October 2 - Masanobu Deme, film director
November 20
*Umeko Ando, Ainu singer and musician
*Yorozuya Kinnosuke, kabuki actor
November 23 - Kunie Tanaka, film actor
December 13 - Tatsuya Nakadai, film actor
December 25 - Jun Etō, literary critic