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← 1932 1931 1930 1933 in Japan → 1934 1935 1936
Decades:	1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
See also:	Other events of 1933 History of Japan Timeline Years

Events from the year 1933 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 8 (昭和8年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

• Emperor: Hirohito^[1]
• Empress consort: Empress Kōjun
• Prime Minister: Saitō Makoto

Events

• 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 28.7 metres (94 ft) at Ōfunato, Iwate, caused extensive damage, destroys many homes and causes numerous casualties.^[2]
• 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^[3]
• October 10 – opening of Keisei Ueno Station
• establishment of Tokubetsu-keibi-tai (Metropolitan Police Department)

Births

Yoko Ono

Emperor Akihito

• January 2
  • On Kawara, conceptual artist (d. 2014)
  • 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^[4]
• March 1 – Yoko Minamida, film actress (d. 2009)
• March 18 – Eikoh Hosoe, photographer and filmmaker
• April 15 – Kōji Yada, voice actor (d. 2014)
• April 16 – Takeo Watanabe, musician and composer (d. 1989)
• May 10 – Chikage Oogi, actress and politician (d. 2023)
• May 15 – Juzo Itami, film director (d. 1997)
• May 23 – Shōzō Iizuka, voice actor (d. 2023)
• July 17 – Keiko Awaji, film actress (d. 2014)
• August 1 – Masaichi Kaneda, baseball pitcher (d. 2019)
• August 9 – Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, actress, and author of children's book
• August 16 – Bunta Sugawara, actor (d. 2014)
• September 18 – Hiroshi Suzuki, Olympic swimmer
• October 16 – Nobuyo Oyama, voice actress
• October 20 – Chikara Hashimoto, baseball player (d. 2017)
• October 22 – Mitsuko Kusabue, film actress
• November 8 – Ayako Wakao, film actress
• November 11 – Keiko Tanaka-Ikeda, Japanese artistic gymnast (d. 2023)
• December 1 – Fujiko F. Fujio, cartoonist (d. 1996)
• December 10 – Mako, actor, voice actor and singer (d. 2006)
• December 23 – Akihito, 125th Emperor of Japan, fifth child of Emperor Hirohito and Empress Kōjun^[5]

Deaths

• January 23 – Sakai Toshihiko, writer and historian (b. 1871)
• February 20 – Takiji Kobayashi, author and novelist (b. 1903)
• March 18 – Sakuzō Yoshino, academic, and political scientist (b. 1878)
• July 27 – Nobuyoshi Mutō, field marshal, Commander of the Kwantung Army, ambassador (b. 1868)
• July 31 – Shimizu Shikin, novelist and women's rights activist (b. 1868)
• September 21 – Kenji Miyazawa, poet and author of children's books (b. 1896)
• October 15 – Inazō Nitobe, economist, author and educator (b. 1862)
• November 3 – Princess Nobuko Asaka, daughter of Emperor Meiji (b. 1891)
• November 8 – Uehara Yūsaku, field marshal (b. 1856)
• December 8 – Yamamoto Gonnohyōe, admiral and Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1852)

See also

• 1933 in Japanese football
• List of Japanese films of the 1930s

References