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See also:	Other events of 1930 History of Japan  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year 1930 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 5 (昭和5年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

• Emperor: Hirohito^[1]
• Prime Minister: Osachi Hamaguchi

Events

• January 1 – The Ministry of Rail adopts the metric system for all of Japan's railways.
• February 4 – Prince Takamatsu marries Kikuko Tokugawa.
• February 20 – 1930 Japanese general election: The Rikken Minseitō party, led by Prime Minister Osachi Hamaguchi, won an overall majority in the House of Representatives. Voter turnout was 83.34%.
• May 5 – Iwatani Industry has founded in Osaka. (As predecessor name was Iwatani Naoji Shoten)^{[page needed]}
• May 24–27 – 1930 Far Eastern Games held in Tokyo.^[2]
• October 27–December – Wushe Incident
• November 14 – Prime Minister Osachi Hamaguchi is shot inside Tokyo Station by Tomeo Sagoya in a failed assassination attempt. The wounds kept Hamaguchi hospitalized for several months.
• November 18 – the Buddhist religious movement Soka Gakkai is formed by educator Tsunesaburō Makiguchi.
• December 21 – The First Gōdō Bank and Sanyō Bank were merged, that became name for Okayama Chūgoku Bank.^{[citation needed]}
• Unknown date
  • According to All Japan Pachinko Association confirmed report, first standards pachinko parlor open in Nagoya.^{[page needed]}
  • NHK Science & Technology Research Laboratories was founded^[3]

Births

• January 4 – Minoru Makihara, businessman and CEO of Mitsubishi Corporation (d. 2020)
• January 15 – Michiyo Aratama, actress (d. 2001)
• January 16 – Shōmei Tōmatsu, photographer (d. 2012)
• January 18 – Shōgorō Nishimura, film director (d. 2017)
• January 20 – Sadateru Arikawa, aikido teacher (d. 2003)
• January 29 – Norio Ohga, businessman and CEO of Sony (d. 2011)
• April 23 – Shun Akiyama, literary critic (d. 2013)
• April 29 – Kyōko Kishida, actress (d. 2006)
• May 20 – Yasushi Nagao, Pulitzer Prize-winning press photographer (d. 2009)
• June 3 – Ben Wada, television director (d. 2011)
• June 15 – Ikuo Hirayama, painter (d. 2009)
• June 29 – Sachiko Hidari, actress (d. 2001)
• July 3 – Kinji Fukasaku, film director (d. 2003)
• August 1 – Satoru Kobayashi, film director (d. 2001)
• September 12 – Akira Suzuki, chemist
• October 8 – Tōru Takemitsu, composer (d. 1996)
• October 10 – Akiyuki Nosaka, novelist, singer and politician (d. 2015)
• October 12 – Keiichi Komura, boxer (d. 2023)^{[citation needed]}
• November 10 – Michiya Mihashi, enka singer (d. 1996)
• November 11 – Minako Oba, enka author and social critic (d. 2007)
• December 10 – Yukio Koshimori, politician (d. 2005)
• December 17 – Makoto Moroi, composer (d. 2013)^[4]
• December 30 – Takeshi Kaikō, author (d. 1989)

Deaths

• January 27 – Dewa Shigetō, admiral (b. 1856)
• March 2 – Katsusaburō Yamagiwa, pathologist and physician (b. 1863)
• March 10 - Misuzu Kaneko, poet (b. 1903)
• March 28 – Uchimura Kanzō, author and pacifist (b. 1861)
• May 10 – Kanzan Shimomura, nihonga painter (b. 1873)
• May 13 – Katai Tayama, novelist (b. 1872)
• June 30 – Yashiro Rokurō, admiral (1860)
• July 19 – Oku Yasukata, Field Marshall (b. 1847)
• October 30 – Sakichi Toyoda, inventor and industrialist (b. 1867)
• November 4 – Akiyama Yoshifuru, general (b. 1859)
• November 9 – Asano Sōichirō, businessman (b. 1848)
• November 16 – Den Kenjirō, politician and Governor-General of Taiwan (b. 1855)