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((more citations needed|date=March 2019))
((Year in Japan|1940))
Events in the year '''1940 in [[Japan]]'''. It corresponds to '''[[Shōwa period|Shōwa]] 15''' (昭和15年) in the [[Japanese calendar]].

==Incumbents==
[[File:Founding Ceremony of the Hakko-Ichiu Monument.JPG|thumb|upright|Founding Ceremony of the ''Hakko-Ichiu'' Monument on April 3, 1940. It had [[Prince Chichibu]]'s calligraphy of ''Hakkō ichiu'', carved on its front side.<ref>David C. Earhart, ''Certain Victory'', 2008, p. 63.</ref>]]
*[[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>
*[[Prime Minister of Japan|Prime Minister]]:
**[[Nobuyuki Abe]], until January 16,
**[[Mitsumasa Yonai]], until July 22,
**[[Fumimaro Konoe]], from July 22

===Governors===
*[[List of governors of Aichi Prefecture|Aichi Prefecture]]: [[Kotaro Tanaka (politician)|Kotaro Tanaka]] (until 9 April); [[Kodama Kyuichi]] (starting 9 April)
*Akita Prefecture: [[Yukio Tomeoka]] (until 24 July); [[Fumi]] (starting 24 July)
*Aomori Prefecture: [[Noburo Suzuki]] (until 24 July); [[Seiichi Ueda]] (starting 24 July)
*Ehime Prefecture: [[Yoshio Mochinaga]] (until 24 July); [[Susumu Nakamura Noriyuki]] (starting 24 July)
*Fukui Prefecture: [[Kiyoshi Kimura]] (until 14 April); [[Kubota]] (starting 14 April)
*Fukuoka Prefecture: [[Kyuichi Kodama]]
*Fukushima Prefecture: [[Seikichi Hashimoto]] (until 24 December); [[Sumio Hisakawa]] (starting 24 December)
*Gifu Prefecture: [[Miyano Shozo]]
*Gunma Prefecture: [[Kumano Ei]] (until 20 October); [[Susukida Yoshitomo]] (starting 20 October)
*[[Governors of Hiroshima Prefecture|Hiroshima Prefecture]]: [[Katsuroku Aikawa]]
*[[List of governors of Ibaraki Prefecture|Ibaraki Prefecture]]: [[Tokitsugi Yoshinaga]]
*[[List of governors of Ishikawa Prefecture|Ishikawa Prefecture]]: [[Narita Ichiro]] (until month unknown)
*Iwate Prefecture: [[Chiyoji Yukizawa]] (until 10 April); [[Yoshifumi Yamauchi]] (starting 10 April)
*Kagawa Prefecture: [[Nagatoshi Fujioka]] (until 9 April); [[Osamu Eianhyaku]] (starting 9 April)
*[[List of governors of Kanagawa Prefecture|Kanagawa Prefecture]]: [[Ichisho Inuma]] then [[Mitsuma Matsumura]] 
*[[List of governors of Kumamoto Prefecture|Kumamoto Prefecture]]: [[Tomoichi Koyama]]
*Kochi Prefecture: [[Kondo Shunsuke]] (until 9 April); [[Chioji Yukisawa]] (starting 9 April)
*[[List of governors of Kyoto Prefecture|Kyoto Prefecture]]: [[Tota Akamatsuko]] (until April); [[Jitsuzo Kawanishi]] (starting April)
*Mie Prefecture: [[Masatoshi Sato]] (until 4 April); [[Yoshiro Nakano]] (starting 4 April)
*[[List of governors of Miyagi Prefecture|Miyagi Prefecture]]: [[Ryosaku Shimizu]] (until 4 April); [[Nobuo Hayashin]] (starting 4 April)
*Miyazaki Prefecture: [[Jitsuzo Kawanishi]] (until month unknown)
*[[List of governors of Nagano Prefecture|Nagano Prefecture]]: [[Tomita Kenji]] (until 22 July); [[Nagoya Osamu]] (starting 22 July)
*Nagasaki Prefecture: [[Jitsuzo Kawanishi]] 
*[[List of governors of Niigata Prefecture|Niigata Prefecture]]: [[Seikichi Kimishima]] (until 9 April); [[Yasui Seiichiro]] (starting 9 April)
*[[Governor of Okinawa Prefecture|Okinawa Prefecture]]: [[Fusataro Fuchigami]]
*[[List of governors of Saga Prefecture|Saga Prefecture]]: [[:ja:加藤於兎丸|Kato]] (until 9 April); [[:ja:真崎長年|Masaki]] (starting 9 April)
*[[List of governors of Saitama Prefecture|Saitama Prefecture]]: [[Toki Ginjiro]]
*Shiname Prefecture: [[Kiyoo Ebe]] (until 23 December); [[Yasuo Otsubo]] (starting 23 December)
*Tochigi Prefecture: [[Adachi Shuuritsu]] (until 8 April); [[Saburo Yamagata]] (starting 8 April)
*[[Governor of Tokyo|Tokyo]]: [[Okada Shuzo]]
*Toyama Prefecture: [[Kenzo Yano]]
*Yamagata Prefecture: [[Ishiguro Takeshige]] (until 24 August); [[Hee Yamauchi]] (starting 24 August)

==Films==
*[[Kaze no Matasaburo]]
*[[Totsugu hi made]]

==Events==
*Throughout the entire year - Celebration of year 2600 in [[Japanese imperial year]]
*January 15 &ndash; A large fire destroys much of [[Shizuoka (city)|Shizuoka]] city center.
*January 29 &ndash; According to [[Japanese government]] official confirmed report, a three-passenger locomotive commuter train derail and caught fire nearby [[Ajikawaguchi Station]], [[Osaka]], resulting to 189 person (181 were instantly, 8 were hospital) were death and 69 persons injures.((citation needed|date=February 2021)) 
*March 16&ndash;April 3 &ndash; [[Battle of Wuyuan]]
*May 1–June 18 &ndash; [[Battle of Zaoyang-Yichang]]
*September 22&ndash;26 &ndash; [[Japanese invasion of French Indochina]]
*November 25–30 &ndash; [[Central Hubei Operation]]

==Births==
*January 1 &ndash; [[Ippei Kuri]], manga artist and entrepreneur (d. [[2023 in Japan|2023]])<ref>((cite web|title=Tatsunoko Production Co-Founder Ippei Kuri Passes Away|url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2023-07-19/tatsunoko-production-co-founder-ippei-kuri-passes-away/.200467|website=[[Anime News Network]]|date=July 19, 2023))</ref>
*January 2 &ndash; [[Masahiko Tsugawa]], actor (d. [[2018 in Japan|2018]])<ref>((cite web|url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E6%B4%A5%E5%B7%9D%E9%9B%85%E5%BD%A6-1091903|title=Masahiko Tsugawa 知恵蔵mini「津川雅彦」の解説|work=KOTOBANK|accessdate=July 24, 2021))</ref> 
*February 11 &ndash; [[Kinryuu Arimoto]], voice actor (d. [[2019 in Japan|2019]])
*May 13 &ndash; [[Kōkichi Tsuburaya]], marathoner (d. [[1968 in Japan|1968]])
*May 25 &ndash; [[Nobuyoshi Araki]], photographer and artist
*June 3 &ndash; [[Koichi Kishi (politician)|Koichi Kishi]], politician (d. [[2017 in Japan|2017]])
*July 2 &ndash; [[Ruriko Asaoka]], actress
*July 19 &ndash; [[Hanako, Princess Hitachi]], wife of [[Masahito, Prince Hitachi]]
*August 20 &ndash; [[Gisaburō Sugii]], anime director and [[Nihonga]] artist
*September 20 &ndash; [[Tarō Asō]], 59th Prime Minister of Japan
*October 30 &ndash; [[Hidetoshi Nagasawa]], sculptor and architect (d. [[2018 in Japan|2018]])
*December 4 &ndash; [[Fumio Kyūma]], politician

==Deaths==
*January 1 &ndash; [[Fusajiro Yamauchi]], entrepreneur (b. [[1859 in Japan|1859]])
*March 8 &ndash; [[Princess Masako Takeda]], sixth daughter of [[Emperor Meiji]] (b. [[1888 in Japan|1888]])
*May 11 &ndash; [[Chujiro Hayashi]], Reiki practitioner (b. [[1880 in Japan|1880]])
*June 5 &ndash; [[Tokugawa Iesato]], politician (b. [[1863 in Japan|1863]])
*September 4 &ndash; [[Prince Nagahisa Kitashirakawa]], career army officer (b. [[1910 in Japan|1910]])
*October 6 &ndash; [[Michitarō Komatsubara]], general (b. [[1885 in Japan|1885]])
*November 20 &ndash;  [[Hideo Oguma]], poet (b. [[1901 in Japan|1901]])
*November 24 &ndash; [[Saionji Kinmochi]], politician, statesman and Prime Minister of Japan (b. [[1849 in Japan|1849]])

==See also==
* [[List of Japanese films of the 1940s]]

==References==
((Reflist))

==Further reading==
* Bloch, Leon Bryce and Lamar Middleton, ed. ''The World Over in 1940'' (1941) detailed coverage of world events [https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.156775 online free]; 914pp
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