1936 in Japan
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Events in the year 1936 in Japan. It corresponds to ShÅwa 11 (æå11å¹´) in the Japanese calendar.
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Incumbents
- Emperor: Hirohito[1]
- Prime Minister:
- Keisuke Okada, until March 9
- KÅki Hirota, from March 9
Events
- February 5 â Japanese Baseball League is founded.
- February 6 â Ricoh founded.[2]
- February 21 â According to USGS official report, a Richer scale 6.0 earthquake hit on Mount NijÅ, Nara Prefecture, according to Japanese government official confirmed report, kills nine persons and injures 59 persons.[3]
- February 26â29 â February 26 Incident (äºã»äºå äºä»¶, Niniroku Jiken): The Imperial Way Faction engineers a failed coup against the Japanese government; some politicians are killed.
- February 27 â Tokyo is placed under martial law (not to be repealed until July 16)
- 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 â The Emperor signs an ordinance on March 4 establishing a Special Court Martial (ç¹è¨è»æ³ä¼è° tokusetsu gunpÅ kaigi) to try those involved in the February 26 uprising.[4]
- March 9 â Pro-democratic militarist Keisuke Okada steps down as Prime Minister of Japan and is replaced by radical militarist KÅki Hirota.
- March 12 â Ukichiro Nakaya creates the first artificial snow crystal.
- May 11 â 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.[5][citation needed]
- May 18 â 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.[6]
- July 31 â 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 1âAugust 16 â Japan competes at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. Japan wins six gold medals, four silvers, and eight Bronze.
- November 20 â Mitsubishi Osarizawa mine and Nakazawa dam collapse by heavy rain, total 362 persons fatalities in Akita Prefecture, according to Japanese government official confirmed report.[page needed]
- Unknown date â Bousei-gakujuku, as predecessor of Tokai University was founded in Musashino, Tokyo.[page needed]
Films
Births
- January 24 â Etsuko Ichihara, (d. 2019)
- February 20 â Shigeo Nagashima, professional baseball player, coach (d. 2025)
- April 10 â Makoto Wada, illustrator, essayist and film director
- April 22 â Takeshi Koba, professional baseball player and coach
- June 19 â Takeshi Aono, voice actor (d. 2012)
- June 27 â Tadanori Yokoo, graphic designer, illustrator, print maker and painter.
- July 8 â Kazuhiro Tanaka, modern pentathlete
- July 16
- Yasuo Fukuda, 58th Prime Minister of Japan
- Akira Kinoshita, photographer
- July 23 â Keiichi Tanaami, pop artist (d. 2015)
- August 11 â Mitsutoshi Furuya, comic artist (d. 2021)
- September 3 â Ikki Kajiwara, author, manga writer, and film producer (d. 1987)
- September 4 â Yoshihisa Yoshikawa, sport shooter (d. 2019)
- October 12 â Minoru Murayama, Japanese baseball pitcher (d. 1998)
- October 14 â Fuyumi Shiraishi, voice actress (d. 2019)
- October 16 â Akira Machida, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan (d. 2015)
- October 25 â Masako Nozawa, voice actress
- October 29 â Akiko Kojima, model and beauty queen
- October 31 â Shigeo Takii, supreme court justice (d. 2015)
- December 4 â Michiko Yamamoto, writer and poet
Deaths
- January 11 â Ikuta ChÅkÅ, translator, author and literary critic (b. 1882)
- February 1 â Genji Matsuda, politician and cabinet minister (b. 1876)
- February 26
- SaitÅ Makoto, naval officer and politician (19th Prime Minister of Japan) (b. 1858)
- Takahashi Korekiyo, politician and Governor of the Bank of Japan (b. 1854)
- JÅtarÅ Watanabe, general (b. 1874)
- February 29 â ShirÅ Nonaka, Imperial Japanese Army officer (b. 1903)
- March 11 â Yumeno KyÅ«saku, writer (b. 1889)
- March 12 â Uchida KÅsai, statesman, diplomat and interim prime minister (b. 1865)
- March 27 â Kawasaki Takukichi, politician and cabinet minister (b. 1871)
- April 8 â ChÅ«hachi Ninomiya, aviation pioneer (b. 1866)
- May 3 â Kikunae Ikeda, chemist (b. 1864
- May 27 â Take Hagiwara, military nurse (b. 1873)
- June 10 â Tsuchida Bakusen, nihonga painter (b. 1887)
- June 27 â Miekichi Suzuki, novelist (b. 1882)
- July 3 â Saburo Aizawa (b. 1889)
- July 12 â Yasuhide Kurihara (b. 1908)
- October 8 â Utako Shimoda, educator and poet (b. 1854)