1936 in Japan

Events in the year 1936 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 11 in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

Emperor: Hirohito
Prime Minister:
*Keisuke Okada, until March 9
*Kōki Hirota, from March 9

Events

February 5 - Japanese Baseball League is founded.
February 6 - Ricoh founded.
February 21 - According to USGS official report, a Richer scale 6.0 earthquake hit on Mount Nijō, Nara Prefecture, according to Japanese government official confirmed report, kills nine persons and injures 59 persons.
February 26-29 - February 26 Incident : The Imperial Way Faction engineers a failed coup against the Japanese government; some politicians are killed.
February 27 - Tokyo is placed under martial law
February 29
*Prime Minister Keisuke Okada, a target in the February 26 incident, emerges from hiding.
*Emperor Hirohito orders the Japanese army to arrest 123 conspirators in Tokyo government offices; 19 of them are executed in July.
*Facing overwhelming opposition as the army moved against them, the rebels surrender
March 4 - The Emperor signs an ordinance on March 4 establishing a Special Court Martial to try those involved in the February 26 uprising.
March 9 - Pro-democratic militarist Keisuke Okada steps down as Prime Minister of Japan and is replaced by radical militarist Kōki Hirota.
March 12 - Ukichiro Nakaya creates the first artificial snow crystal.
May 11 - According to Japanese government and former Japan Health and Welfare Ministry official report, a massive food poisoning hit, many attend and their families presented Daifuku rice cake eat, after 2,200 persons affective salmonella infection in junior high-school sports festival in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, total 29 students and 15 parents and families were lost to lives.
May 18 - Sada Abe strangled her lover with an obi and then cut off his genitals to carry around with her as a souvenir. When the crime was discovered the next day it became a national sensation and would be the subject of many books and movies over the decades to follow.
July 31 - The International Olympic Committee announces that the 1940 Summer Olympics will be held in Tokyo. However, the games are given back to the IOC after the Second Sino-Japanese War breaks out, and are eventually cancelled altogether because of World War II.
August 1-August 16 - Japan competes at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Japan wins six gold medals, four silvers, and eight Bronze.
November 20 - Mitsubishi Osarizawa mine and Nakazawa dam collapse by heavy rain, total 362 persons fatalities in Akita Prefecture, according to Japanese government official confirmed report.
Unknown date - Bousei-gakujuku, as predecessor of Tokai University was founded in Musashino, Tokyo.

Films

The Only Son (1936 film)

Births

January 24 - Etsuko Ichihara,
February 20 - Shigeo Nagashima, professional baseball player, coach
April 10 - Makoto Wada, illustrator, essayist and film director
April 22 - Takeshi Koba, professional baseball player and coach
June 19 - Takeshi Aono, voice actor
June 27 - Tadanori Yokoo, graphic designer, illustrator, print maker and painter.
July 8 - Kazuhiro Tanaka, modern pentathlete
July 16
*Yasuo Fukuda, 58th Prime Minister of Japan
*Akira Kinoshita, photographer
July 23 - Keiichi Tanaami, pop artist
August 11 - Mitsutoshi Furuya, comic artist
September 3 - Ikki Kajiwara, author, manga writer, and film producer
September 4 - Yoshihisa Yoshikawa, sport shooter
October 12 - Minoru Murayama, Japanese baseball pitcher
October 14 - Fuyumi Shiraishi, voice actress
October 16 - Akira Machida, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan
October 25 - Masako Nozawa, voice actress
October 29 - Akiko Kojima, model and beauty queen
October 31 - Shigeo Takii, supreme court justice
December 4 - Michiko Yamamoto, writer and poet

Deaths

January 11 - Ikuta Chōkō, translator, author and literary critic
February 1 - Genji Matsuda, politician and cabinet minister
February 26
*Saitō Makoto, naval officer and politician
* Takahashi Korekiyo, politician and Governor of the Bank of Japan
* Jōtarō Watanabe, general
February 29 - Shirō Nonaka, Imperial Japanese Army officer
March 11 - Yumeno Kyūsaku, writer
March 12 - Uchida Kōsai, statesman, diplomat and interim prime minister
March 27 - Kawasaki Takukichi, politician and cabinet minister
April 8 - Chūhachi Ninomiya, aviation pioneer
May 3 - Kikunae Ikeda, chemist
June 10 - Tsuchida Bakusen, nihonga painter
June 27 - Miekichi Suzuki, novelist
July 3 - Saburo Aizawa
July 12 - Yasuhide Kurihara
October 8 - Utako Shimoda, educator and poet