1935 in Japan

Events from the year 1935 in Japan.

• Emperor: Hirohito^[1]
• Prime Minister: Keisuke Okada

• Aichi Prefecture: Eitaro Shinohara
• Akita Prefecture: Takabe Rokuzo
• Aomori Prefecture: Mitsumasa Kobayashi
• Ehime Prefecture: Jiro Ichinohe (until 15 January); Jiro Kan Oba (starting 15 January)
• 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 (until 15 January); Seikichi Kimishima (starting 15 June)
• Hiroshima Prefecture: Michio Yuzawa (until 15 January); Keiichi Suzuki (starting 15 January)
• Ibaraki Prefecture: Abe Kashichi (until 15 January); Ando Kyoushirou (starting 15 January)
• Iwate Prefecture: Hidehiko Ishiguro
• Kagawa Prefecture: Yoshisuke Kinoshita (until 15 June); Megumi Fujimo (starting 15 June)
• Kumamoto Prefecture: Keiichi Suzuki (until 15 January); Sekiya Nobuyuke (starting 15 January)
• Kochi Prefecture: Yozora Takehamu (until 16 October); Kobayashi Mitsumasa (starting 16 October)
• Kyoto Prefecture: Saito Munenori (until January); Shintaro Suzuki (starting January)
• Mie Prefecture: Saburo Hayakawa (until 23 June); Aijiro Tomita (starting 23 June)
• Miyagi Prefecture: Kiyoshi Nakarai (until 28 June); Jiro Ino (starting 28 June)
• Miyazaki Prefecture: Seikuchi Kimishima (until 15 January); Seiya Mishima (starting 15 January)
• Nagano Prefecture: Okoda Shuzo (until 15 January); Seiichi Omora (starting 15 January)
• Niigata Prefecture: Chiba Ryo (until 15 June); Miyawaki Umekichi (starting 15 June)
• Okinawa Prefecture: Jiro Ino (until 28 June); Hisashi Kurashige (starting 28 June)
• Osaka Prefecture: Shinobu Agata (until month unknown)
• Saga Prefecture: Shizuo Furukawa
• Saitama Prefecture: Kazume Iinuma (until 25 May); Saito Juri (starting 25 May)
• Shiname Prefecture: Masaki Fukumura
• Tochigi Prefecture: Gunzo Kayaba
• Tokyo: Masayasu Kouksaka (until 15 January); Sukenari Yokoya (starting 15 January)
• Toyama Prefecture: Saito Itsuki (until 25 May); Ginjiro Toki (starting 25 May)
• Yamagata Prefecture: Taro Kanamori

• January 8 - Battle of Khalkhyn Temple
• February 11 – Tosoh was founded in Tokuyama (now Shunan) 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 (now Tokiwadai Station (Tokyo)).
• Unknown date – Yakult founded in Fukuoka City.
• Establishment of Naoki Prize and Akutagawa Prize.

• January 20 - Orizuru Osen
• November 21 - An Inn in Tokyo
• date unknown - Kodakara Sodo

• January 4 – Toru Terasawa, runner
• January 31 – Kenzaburō Ōe, writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2023)
• February 22 – Hisako Kyōda, Japanese voice actress
• March 17 – Seiji Yokoyama, musician (d. 2017)
• April 17 – Masanori Hata, zoologist, essayist, and filmmaker (d. 2023)
• May 15 – Akihiro Miwa, singer, actor, author and drag queen
• June 10 – Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese manga artist (d. 2015)
• June 26 – Sumiko Shirakawa, voice actress (body discovered. 2015)
• June 29 – Katsuya Nomura, baseball player and manager (d. 2020)
• July 12 – Satoshi Ōmura, biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate^[2]
• July 23 – Yukiji Asaoka, singer and actress (d. 2018)
• August 24 – Tsutomu Hata, 51st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2017)
• September 1 – Seiji Ozawa, conductor (d. 2024)
• September 14 – Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (d. 2008)
• October 2 – Noriko Ohara, actress, voice actress and narrator
• October 9 – Teruyoshi Nakano, special effects director
• October 10 – Yumiko Kurahashi, writer (d. 2005)
• October 15 – Yukio Ninagawa, theater director (d. 2016)
• October 29 – Isao Takahata, film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2018)
• November 15 – Kaneta Kimotsuki, voice actor (d. 2016)
• November 17 – Masatoshi Sakai, Japanese record producer^[3][4]
• November 28 – Masahito, Prince Hitachi
• December 10 – Shūji Terayama, poet, writer, film director, and photographer (d. 1983)
• December 19 – Taizo Nishimuro, businessman (d. 2017)
• date unknown
  • Yoshikazu Minami (photographer)
  • Keizaburo Tejima, artist and author

• January 17 – Ishikawa Chiyomatsu, biologist, zoologist, and ichthyologist (b. 1861)
• February 28 – Tsubouchi Shōyō, author, critic and educator (b. 1859)
• March 8 – Hachikō, a faithful Akita, on the spot where he had awaited his dead owner for nine years^[5]
• March 20 – Gyoshū Hayami, painter (b. 1894)
• August 12 – Tetsuzan Nagata, general (b. 1884)

• 1935 in Japanese football
• List of Japanese films of the 1930s