1935 in Japan

Events from the year 1935 in Japan.

Incumbents

Governors

Aichi Prefecture: Eitaro Shinohara
Akita Prefecture: Takabe Rokuzo
Aomori Prefecture: Mitsumasa Kobayashi
Ehime Prefecture: Jiro Ichinohe ; Jiro Kan Oba
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 ; Seikichi Kimishima
Hiroshima Prefecture: Michio Yuzawa ; Keiichi Suzuki
Ibaraki Prefecture: Abe Kashichi ; Ando Kyoushirou
Iwate Prefecture: Hidehiko Ishiguro
Kagawa Prefecture: Yoshisuke Kinoshita ; Megumi Fujimo
Kumamoto Prefecture: Keiichi Suzuki ; Sekiya Nobuyuke
Kochi Prefecture: Yozora Takehamu ; Kobayashi Mitsumasa
Kyoto Prefecture: Saito Munenori ; Shintaro Suzuki
Mie Prefecture: Saburo Hayakawa ; Aijiro Tomita
Miyagi Prefecture: Kiyoshi Nakarai ; Jiro Ino
Miyazaki Prefecture: Seikuchi Kimishima ; Seiya Mishima
Nagano Prefecture: Okoda Shuzo ; Seiichi Omora
Niigata Prefecture: Chiba Ryo ; Miyawaki Umekichi
Okinawa Prefecture: Jiro Ino ; Hisashi Kurashige
Osaka Prefecture: Shinobu Agata
Saga Prefecture: Shizuo Furukawa
Saitama Prefecture: Kazume Iinuma ; Saito Juri
Shiname Prefecture: Masaki Fukumura
Tochigi Prefecture: Gunzo Kayaba
Tokyo: Masayasu Kouksaka ; Sukenari Yokoya
Toyama Prefecture: Saito Itsuki ; Ginjiro Toki
Yamagata Prefecture: Taro Kanamori

Events

January 8 - Battle of Khalkhyn Temple
February 11 - Tosoh was founded in Tokuyama 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.
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 2 - Sumiko Iwao, psychologist and educator
January 4 - Toru Terasawa, runner
January 31 - Kenzaburō Ōe, Nobel Prize-winning Japanese writer
February 2 - Junko Hori, Japanese voice actress
February 6 - Yoshiomi Tamai, founder of Ashinaga
February 22 - Hisako Kyōda, Japanese voice actress
March 17 - Seiji Yokoyama, musician
March 22 - Yūtokutaishi Akiyama, engraver and photographer
April 9 - Motomu Kiyokawa, actor and voice actor
April 17 - Masanori Hata, zoologist, essayist, and filmmaker
May 10 - Ikujiro Nonaka, theorist and academician
May 15 - Akihiro Miwa, singer, actor, author and drag queen
June 2 - Keiko Hanagata, voice actress
June 10 - Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese manga artist
June 26 - Sumiko Shirakawa, voice actress
June 29 - Katsuya Nomura, baseball player and manager
July 12 - Satoshi Ōmura, Nobel Prize-winning biochemist
July 23 - Yukiji Asaoka, singer and actress
August 9 - Kazuko Yoshiyuki, actress, voice actress, and essayist
August 24 - Tsutomu Hata, 51st Prime Minister of Japan
September 1 - Seiji Ozawa, composer and conductor
September 14 - Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist
September 24 - Yuzuru Fujimoto, voice actor
September 29 - Rieko Nakagawa, Japanese writer and lyricist
October 2 - Noriko Ohara, actress, voice actress and narrator
October 4 - Takao Iwami, political pundit
October 8 - Yoshikazu Minami, photographer
October 9 - Teruyoshi Nakano, special effects director
October 10 - Yumiko Kurahashi, writer
October 15 - Yukio Ninagawa, theater director
October 29 - Isao Takahata, film director, screenwriter and producer
November 15 - Kaneta Kimotsuki, voice actor
November 17 – Masatoshi Sakai, Japanese record producer
November 28 - Prince Masahito of Hitachi
December 10 - Shūji Terayama, poet, writer, film director, and photographer
December 19 - Taizo Nishimuro, businessman
date unknown
* Keizaburo Tejima, artist and author

Deaths

January 17 - Ishikawa Chiyomatsu, biologist, zoologist, and ichthyologist
February 28 - Tsubouchi Shōyō, author, critic and educator
March 8 - Hachikō, a faithful Akita, on the spot where he had awaited his dead owner for nine years
March 20 - Gyoshū Hayami, painter
August 12 - Tetsuzan Nagata, general