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Events in the year 1932 in Japan.

Incumbents

Emperor: Hirohito^[1]
Prime Minister:
- Inukai Tsuyoshi: until May 15
- Takahashi Korekiyo: (Acting) May 15 – May 26
- Saitō Makoto: from May 26
Foreign Minister:
- Saitō Makoto: until July
- Uchida Kosai
Finance Minister: Takahashi Korekiyo

Governors

Aichi Prefecture: Yujiro Osaki (until 28 June); Endo Ryusaku (starting 28 June)
Akita Prefecture: Takeshi Uchida (until 28 June); Takabe Rokuzo (starting 28 June)
Aomori Prefecture: Teizaburo Miyamoto (until 28 June); Taku Yasunobu (starting 28 June)
Ehime Prefecture: Kume Shigeo (until 28 June); Jiro Ichinohe (starting 28 June)
Fukui Prefecture: Keizo Ichimura (until 8 March); Shigeo Odachi (starting 8 March)
Fukushima Prefecture: Murai Hachiro (until 28 June); Akagi Tomoharo (starting 28 June)
Gifu Prefecture: Takehiko Ito (until 28 June); Umekichi Miyawaki (starting 28 June)
Gunma Prefecture: Masao Kanazawa
Hiroshima Prefecture: Ryo Chiba (until 28 June); Michio Yuzawa (starting 28 June)
Ibaraki Prefecture: Seikichi Kimishima (until 18 June); Abe Kashichi (starting 18 June)
Iwate Prefecture: Hidehiko Ishiguro
Kagawa Prefecture: Akira Ito (until 28 June); Seikichi Kimijima (starting 28 June)
Kanagawa Prefecture: Sukenari Yokoyama (starting month unknown)
Kochi Prefecture: Kodora Akamatsu (until 4 March); Sakama Osamu (starting 4 March)
Kumamoto Prefecture: Kenichi Yamashita (until 28 June); Keiichi Suzuki (starting 28 June)
Kyoto Prefecture: Sukenari Yokoyama (until 28 June); Saito Munenori (starting 28 June)
Mie Prefecture: Hirose Hisatada
Miyagi Prefecture: Michio Yuzawa
Miyazaki Prefecture: Gisuke Kinoshita
Nagano Prefecture: Ishigaki Kuraji
Niigata Prefecture: Toyoji Obata (until 28 June); Ryo Chiba (starting 28 June)
Okinawa Prefecture: Jiro Ino
Osaka Prefecture: Saito Munenori (until month unknown); Shinobu Agata (starting month unknown)
Saga Prefecture: Saburo Hayakawa
Saitama Prefecture: Umekichi Miyawaki (until 28 June); Shigezo Fukushima (starting 28 June)
Shiname Prefecture: Rinsaku Yagi (starting 28 June); Masaki Fukumura (starting 28 June)
Tochigi Prefecture: Chokichi Toshima (until 28 June); Nakarai Kiyoshi (starting 28 June)
Tokyo:
- until 12 January: Hasegawa Hisakazu
- 12 January-27 May: Shohei Fujinuma
- starting 27 May: Masayasu Kouksaka
Toyama Prefecture: Keiichi Suzuki (until 28 June); Saito Itsuki (starting 28 June)
Yamagata Prefecture: Sada Kawamura (until 28 June); Ishihara Yajiro (starting 28 June)

Events

January 9 – Sakuradamon Incident (1932)
January 25 – Nippon Bakelight, later Sumitomo Bakelight was founded.^{[citation needed]}
January 25–February 4 – Defense of Harbin
January 28–March 3 – January 28 Incident
February 20 – 1932 Japanese general election
May 15 – May 15 Incident
July 15 – Takashimaya Department Store in Osaka Nanba was officially open.^{[citation needed]}
August 12 – Tokyo Takarazuka Cinema Production, as predecessor of Toho was founded.^{[citation needed]}
September 1 – Topcon was founded.^{[page needed]}
September 15 – the Japan-Manchukuo Protocol is signed by Japan giving Japanese forces permission to station in Manchukuo^[2]
December 16 – Shirokiya Department Store fire
Winter – The Japanese Communist Party make a concerted effort to reestablish its central organization during a time of police repression^[3]
Unknown date
- Pharmacy retailer, Matsumoto Kiyoshi founded in Matsudo, Chiba Prefecture, as predecessor name was Matsumoto Pharmacy Shop.^{[page needed]}
- Nanzan Secondary School, later Nanzan University was founded in Nagoya.^{[citation needed]}

Films

Chûshingura - directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa
First Steps Ashore - directed by Yasujirô Shimazu
I Was Born, But... - directed by Yasujirō Ozu
Kokushi muso - directed by Mansaku Itami
Manmo kenkoku no reimei - directed by Kenji Mizoguchi
Nasanunaka - directed by Mikio Naruse
Spring Comes from the Ladies - directed by Yasujirô Ozu
Until the Day We Meet Again - directed by Yasujirô Ozu
Uzumaki - directed by Hiroshi Innami
Where Now Are the Dreams of Youth - directed by Yasujirō Ozu

Births

March 7 – Momoko Kōchi, actress (d. 1998)
March 31 – Nagisa Oshima, film director and screenwriter (d. 2013)
April 3 – Ineko Arima, film actress
April 4 – Meisei Goto, author (d. 1999)
June 24 – Hirohisa Fujii, politician and former Finance Minister (d. 2022)^{[citation needed]}
June 25 – Ichiro Ogimura, table tennis player (d. 1994)
August 11
- Asei Kobayashi, composer and lyricist (d. 2021)
- Keiko Kishi, film actress and UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador
September 10 – Yasuo Yamada, voice actor (d. 1995)
September 18 – Hisashi Owada, diplomat and law professor
September 30 – Shintarō Ishihara, Japanese author and politician (d. 2022)
October 2 – Masanobu Deme, film director (d. 2016)
November 20
- Umeko Ando, Ainu singer and musician (d. 2004)
- Yorozuya Kinnosuke, kabuki actor (d. 1996)
November 23 – Kunie Tanaka, film actor (d. 2021)
December 15 – Tatsuya Nakadai, film actor
December 25 – Jun Etō, literary critic (d. 1999)

Deaths

February 9 – Junnosuke Inoue, businessman and banker (assassinated) (b. 1869)
March 5 – Dan Takuma, businessman (assassinated) (b. 1858)
March 24 – Motojirō Kajii, writer (b. 1901)
March 26 – Kigoshi Yasutsuna, general (b. 1854)
May 15 – Inukai Tsuyoshi, politician and Prime Minister of Japan (assassinated) (b. 1855)
May 26 – Yoshinori Shirakawa, general, (b. 1869)
June 14 – Yamamoto Yaeko, nurse, wife of Joseph Hardy Neesima (b. 1845)
July 24 – Hidaka Sōnojō, admiral (b. 1848)

References

^ "Hirohito | Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
^ Howland, Douglas; White, Luise (2009). The State of Sovereignty: Territories, Laws, Populations. Indiana University Press. p. 83. ISBN 978-0-253-22016-5.
^ Beckmann, George M.; Okubo, Genji (1969). The Japanese Communist Party 1922-1945. Stanford University Press. p. 239. ISBN 978-0-8047-0674-2.

[1] "Hirohito | Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.

[HowlandWhite2009-2] Howland, Douglas; White, Luise (2009). The State of Sovereignty: Territories, Laws, Populations. Indiana University Press. p. 83. ISBN 978-0-253-22016-5.

[BeckmannOkubo1969-3] Beckmann, George M.; Okubo, Genji (1969). The Japanese Communist Party 1922-1945. Stanford University Press. p. 239. ISBN 978-0-8047-0674-2.

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-{{Year in Japan|1932}}
+{{Year in region
+| year = 1932
+| region = Japan
+| error = '''Template:Year in Japan''':
+| image = Flag of Japan (1870–1999).svg
+| image_size = 80px
+| see_also =
+* [[1932|Other events of 1932]]
+* [[History of Japan]]
+* [[Timeline of Japanese history|Timeline]]
+* [[List of years in Japan|Years]]
+}}
 Events in the year '''1932 in [[Japan]]'''.
 ==Incumbents==
+*[[Emperor of Japan|Emperor]]: [[Hirohito]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Hirohito {{!}} Biography, Accomplishments, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hirohito |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=27 March 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
-*[[Emperor of Japan|Emperor]]: [[Hirohito]]
-*[[Prime Minister of Japan|Prime Minister]]: [[Inukai Tsuyoshi]] until May 15
+*[[Prime Minister of Japan|Prime Minister]]:
+**[[Inukai Tsuyoshi]]: until May 15
+**[[Takahashi Korekiyo]]: (Acting) May 15 &ndash; May 26
+**[[Saitō Makoto]]: from May 26
+*[[Minister of Foreign Affairs (Japan)|Foreign Minister]]:
+**[[Saitō Makoto]]: until July
+**[[Uchida Kosai]]
+*[[Minister of Finance (Japan)|Finance Minister]]: [[Takahashi Korekiyo]]
+===Governors===
+*[[List of governors of Aichi Prefecture|Aichi Prefecture]]: [[Yujiro Osaki]] (until 28 June); [[Endo Ryusaku]] (starting 28 June)
+*Akita Prefecture: [[Takeshi Uchida]] (until 28 June); [[Takabe Rokuzo]] (starting 28 June)
+*Aomori Prefecture: [[Teizaburo Miyamoto]] (until 28 June); [[Taku Yasunobu]] (starting 28 June)
+*Ehime Prefecture: [[Kume Shigeo]] (until 28 June); [[Jiro Ichinohe]] (starting 28 June)
+*Fukui Prefecture: [[Keizo Ichimura]] (until 8 March); [[Shigeo Odachi]] (starting 8 March)
+*Fukushima Prefecture: [[Murai Hachiro]] (until 28 June); [[Akagi Tomoharo]] (starting 28 June)
+*Gifu Prefecture: [[Takehiko Ito]] (until 28 June); [[Umekichi Miyawaki]] (starting 28 June)
+*Gunma Prefecture: [[Masao Kanazawa]]
+*[[Governors of Hiroshima Prefecture|Hiroshima Prefecture]]: [[Ryo Chiba]] (until 28 June); [[Michio Yuzawa]] (starting 28 June)
+*[[List of governors of Ibaraki Prefecture|Ibaraki Prefecture]]: [[Seikichi Kimishima]] (until 18 June); [[Abe Kashichi]] (starting 18 June)
+*Iwate Prefecture: [[Hidehiko Ishiguro]]
+*Kagawa Prefecture: [[Akira Ito (politician)|Akira Ito]] (until 28 June); [[Seikichi Kimijima]] (starting 28 June)
+*[[List of governors of Kanagawa Prefecture|Kanagawa Prefecture]]: [[Sukenari Yokoyama]] (starting month unknown)
+*Kochi Prefecture: [[Kodora Akamatsu]] (until 4 March); [[Sakama Osamu]] (starting 4 March)
+*[[List of governors of Kumamoto Prefecture|Kumamoto Prefecture]]: [[Kenichi Yamashita]] (until 28 June); [[Keiichi Suzuki]] (starting 28 June)
+*[[List of governors of Kyoto Prefecture|Kyoto Prefecture]]: [[Sukenari Yokoyama]] (until 28 June); [[Saito Munenori]] (starting 28 June)
+*Mie Prefecture: [[Hirose Hisatada]]
+*[[List of governors of Miyagi Prefecture|Miyagi Prefecture]]: [[Michio Yuzawa]]
+*Miyazaki Prefecture: [[Gisuke Kinoshita]]
+*[[List of governors of Nagano Prefecture|Nagano Prefecture]]: [[Ishigaki Kuraji]]
+*[[List of governors of Niigata Prefecture|Niigata Prefecture]]: [[Toyoji Obata]] (until 28 June); [[Ryo Chiba]] (starting 28 June)
+*[[Governor of Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa Prefecture]]: [[Jiro Ino]]
+*[[List of governors of Osaka|Osaka Prefecture]]: [[Saito Munenori]] (until month unknown); [[Shinobu Agata]] (starting month unknown)
+*[[List of governors of Saga Prefecture|Saga Prefecture]]: [[Saburo Hayakawa]]
+*[[List of governors of Saitama Prefecture|Saitama Prefecture]]: [[Umekichi Miyawaki]] (until 28 June); [[Shigezo Fukushima]] (starting 28 June)
+*Shiname Prefecture: [[Rinsaku Yagi]] (starting 28 June); [[Masaki Fukumura]] (starting 28 June)
+*Tochigi Prefecture: [[Chokichi Toshima]] (until 28 June); [[Nakarai Kiyoshi]] (starting 28 June)
+*[[Governor of Tokyo|Tokyo]]:
+**until 12 January: [[Hasegawa Hisakazu]]
+**12 January-27 May: [[Shohei Fujinuma]]
+**starting 27 May: [[Masayasu Kouksaka]]
+*Toyama Prefecture: [[Keiichi Suzuki]] (until 28 June); [[Saito Itsuki]] (starting 28 June)
+*Yamagata Prefecture: [[Sada Kawamura]] (until 28 June); [[Ishihara Yajiro]] (starting 28 June)
 ==Events==
-*January 9 - [[Sakuradamon Incident (1932)]]
+*January 9 &ndash; [[Sakuradamon Incident (1932)]]
+*January 25 &ndash; Nippon Bakelight, later Sumitomo Bakelight was founded.{{citation needed|date=July 2020}}
-*January 25-February 4 - [[Defense of Harbin]]
-*January 28-March 3 - [[January 28 Incident]]
+*January 25&ndash;February 4 &ndash; [[Defense of Harbin]]
+*January 28&ndash;March 3 &ndash; [[January 28 Incident]]
-*February 20 - [[Japanese general election, 1932]]
+*February 20 &ndash; [[1932 Japanese general election]]
-*May 15 - [[May 15 Incident]]
+*May 15 &ndash; [[May 15 Incident]]
-*September 15 - the [[Japan-Manchukuo Protocol]] is signed by Japan giving Japanese forces permission to station in [[Manchukuo]]<ref name="HowlandWhite2009">{{cite book|last1=Howland|first1=Douglas|last2=White|first2=Luise|title=The State of Sovereignty: Territories, Laws, Populations|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=c9aFgCO4Is0C&pg=PA83|year=2009|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-22016-5|page=83}}</ref>
+*July 15 &ndash; [[Takashimaya|Takashimaya Department Store in Osaka Nanba]] was officially open.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}}
-*December 16 - [[Shirokiya Department Store fire]]
+*August 12 &ndash; Tokyo Takarazuka Cinema Production, as predecessor of [[Toho]] was founded.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
-*Winter -The [[Japanese Communist Party]] make a concerted effort to reestablish its central organization during a time of police repression<ref name="BeckmannOkubo1969">{{cite book|last1=Beckmann|first1=George M.|last2=Okubo|first2=Genji|title=The Japanese Communist Party 1922-1945|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=8IarAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA239|year=1969|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-0674-2|page=239}}</ref>
+*September 1 &ndash; [[Topcon]] was founded.{{page needed|date=May 2020}}
+*September 15 &ndash; the [[Japan-Manchukuo Protocol]] is signed by Japan giving Japanese forces permission to station in [[Manchukuo]]<ref name="HowlandWhite2009">{{cite book|last1=Howland|first1=Douglas|last2=White|first2=Luise|title=The State of Sovereignty: Territories, Laws, Populations|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c9aFgCO4Is0C&pg=PA83|year=2009|publisher=Indiana University Press|isbn=978-0-253-22016-5|page=83}}</ref>
+*December 16 &ndash; [[Shirokiya Department Store fire]]
+*Winter &ndash; The [[Japanese Communist Party]] make a concerted effort to reestablish its central organization during a time of police repression<ref name="BeckmannOkubo1969">{{cite book|last1=Beckmann|first1=George M.|last2=Okubo|first2=Genji|title=The Japanese Communist Party 1922-1945|url=https://archive.org/details/japanesecommunis0000beck|url-access=registration|year=1969|publisher=Stanford University Press|isbn=978-0-8047-0674-2|page=[https://archive.org/details/japanesecommunis0000beck/page/239 239]}}</ref>
+* Unknown date
+** [[Pharmacy|Pharmacy retailer]], [[Matsumoto Kiyoshi]] founded in [[Matsudo]], [[Chiba Prefecture]], as predecessor name was Matsumoto Pharmacy Shop.{{page needed|date=May 2020}}
+** Nanzan Secondary School, later [[Nanzan University]] was founded in [[Nagoya]].{{citation needed|date=June 2020}}
 ==Films==
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 ==Births==
+*March 7 &ndash; [[Momoko Kōchi]], actress (d. [[1998 in Japan|1998]])
-*June 25 - [[Ichiro Ogimura]] - table tennis player
+*March 31 &ndash; [[Nagisa Oshima]], film director and screenwriter (d. [[2013 in Japan|2013]])
-*September 10 - [[Yasuo Yamada]], voice actor
-*October 2 - [[Masanobu Deme]] - film director
+*April 3 &ndash; [[Ineko Arima]], film actress
+*April 4 &ndash; [[Meisei Goto]], author (d. [[1999 in Japan|1999]])
+*June 24 &ndash; [[Hirohisa Fujii]], politician and former Finance Minister (d. [[2022 in Japan|2022]]){{citation needed|date=July 2022}}
+*June 25 &ndash; [[Ichiro Ogimura]], table tennis player (d. [[1994 in Japan|1994]])
+*August 11
+**[[Asei Kobayashi]], composer and lyricist (d. [[2021 in Japan|2021]])
+**[[Keiko Kishi]], film actress and [[UNFPA]] Goodwill Ambassador
+*September 10 &ndash; [[Yasuo Yamada]], voice actor (d. [[1995 in Japan|1995]])
+*September 18 &ndash; [[Hisashi Owada]], diplomat and law professor
+*September 30 &ndash; [[Shintarō Ishihara]], Japanese author and politician (d. [[2022 in Japan|2022]])
+*October 2 &ndash; [[Masanobu Deme]], film director  (d. [[2016 in Japan|2016]])
+*November 20
+**[[Umeko Ando]], [[Ainu people|Ainu]] singer and musician (d. [[2004 in Japan|2004]])
+**[[Yorozuya Kinnosuke]], [[kabuki]] actor (d. [[1996 in Japan|1996]])
+*November 23 &ndash; [[Kunie Tanaka]], film actor (d. [[2021 in Japan|2021]])
+*December 15 &ndash; [[Tatsuya Nakadai]], film actor
+*December 25 &ndash; [[Jun Etō]], literary critic (d. [[1999 in Japan|1999]])
 ==Deaths==
-*March 5 - [[Dan Takuma]] - businessman
+*February 9 &ndash; [[Junnosuke Inoue]], businessman and banker (assassinated) (b. 1869)
+*March 5 &ndash; [[Dan Takuma]], businessman (assassinated) (b. 1858)
-*May 15 - [[Inukai Tsuyoshi]] - politician
+*March 24  &ndash; [[Motojirō Kajii]], writer (b. 1901)
-*May 26 - [[Yoshinori Shirakawa]]
+*March 26  &ndash; [[Kigoshi Yasutsuna]], general (b. 1854)
+*May 15 &ndash; [[Inukai Tsuyoshi]], politician and [[Prime Minister of Japan]] (assassinated) (b. 1855)
+*May 26 &ndash; [[Yoshinori Shirakawa]], general, (b. 1869)
+*June 14 &ndash; [[Yamamoto Yaeko]], nurse, wife of [[Joseph Hardy Neesima]] (b. 1845)
+*July 24 &ndash; [[Hidaka Sōnojō]], admiral (b. 1848)
+==See also==
+* [[1932 in Japanese football]]
+* [[List of Japanese films of the 1930s]]
 ==References==
 {{reflist}}
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