1933 in Japan

Events from the year 1933 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 8 in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

January 1-May 31 - Defense of the Great Wall
February 21-March 1 - Battle of Rehe
March 2 - 1933 Sanriku earthquake. Although the earthquake itself does little damage, the associated tsunami, recorded at a height of at Ōfunato, Iwate, caused extensive damage, destroys many homes and causes numerous casualties.
April 1 - opening of Inariyama-kōen Station
April 15 - opening of Moro Station and Ogose Station
May - The 9th Far Eastern Games are held in Tokyo.
May 10 - Tateishi Electronic Manufacturing, as predecessor of Omron was founded.
May 31 - Tanggu Truce
July 12 - opening of Naka-Itabashi Station
August 1 - opening of Fujimigaoka Station, Inokashira-kōen Station, Kugayama Station, Takaido Station and Hamadayama Station
September 28 - Isetan Department Store of Shinjuku, officially opens
October 10 - opening of Keisei Ueno Station
establishment of Tokubetsu-keibi-tai (Metropolitan Police Department)

January 2
* On Kawara, conceptual artist
* Morimura Seiichi, novelist, author
January 11 - Mariko Okada, film actress
February 16 - Yoshishige Yoshida, film director and screenwriter
February 18 - Yoko Ono, singer, songwriter, and peace activist
March 1 - Yoko Minamida, film actress
March 18 - Eikoh Hosoe, photographer and filmmaker
April 15 - Kōji Yada, voice actor
April 16 - Takeo Watanabe, musician and composer
May 10 - Chikage Oogi, actress and politician
May 15 - Juzo Itami, film director
May 23 - Shōzō Iizuka, voice actor
July 17 - Keiko Awaji, film actress
August 1 - Masaichi Kaneda, baseball pitcher
August 9 - Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, actress, television presenter/pioneer, and author of children's book
August 16 - Bunta Sugawara, actor
September 18 - Hiroshi Suzuki, Olympic swimmer
October 16 - Nobuyo Oyama, voice actress
October 20 - Chikara Hashimoto, baseball player
October 22 - Mitsuko Kusabue, film actress
November 8 - Ayako Wakao, film actress
November 11 – Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda, Japanese artistic gymnast
December 1 - Fujiko F. Fujio, cartoonist
December 10 - Mako, actor, voice actor and singer
December 23 - Akihito, Emperor Emeritus of Japan

January 23 - Sakai Toshihiko, writer and historian
February 20 - Takiji Kobayashi, author and novelist
March 18 - Sakuzō Yoshino, academic, and political scientist
July 27 - Nobuyoshi Mutō, field marshal, Commander of the Kwantung Army, ambassador
July 31 - Shimizu Shikin, novelist and women's rights activist
September 21 - Kenji Miyazawa, poet and author of children's books
October 15 - Inazō Nitobe, economist, author and educator
November 3 - Princess Nobuko Asaka, daughter of Emperor Meiji
November 8 - Uehara Yūsaku, field marshal
December 8 - Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, admiral and Prime Minister of Japan