1934 in Japan

Incumbents

• Emperor: Hirohito
• Prime Minister:
• *Saitō Makoto
• *Keisuke Okada

  Events

• January 8 - 77 person were died, 74 person were hurt, when many families and toop members are pushing each other on the platform, before entering the extra troop train in Kyoto station, according to Japanese government official confirmed report.
• March 21 - 1934 Hakodate fire, Japanese government official report, 2166 persons were perished.
• April - Teijin Incident: Ministry of Justice ordered the arrest of the Vice-Minister of Finance, director of the Bank of Taiwan and president of Teijin
• July 3 - Teijin Incident: Prime Minister Saito dissolves the government, on receiving word that a number of cabinet ministers were also scheduled to be arrested.
• September 1 - Toa Special Electric Works, as predecessor of Toa Corporation was founded in Kobe.
• September 21 - 1934 Muroto typhoon
• November - Military Academy Incident
• Unknown date - Showa Rayon, as predecessor of Kureha founded.

  Births

• January 1 - Kiyoshi Kodama, actor
• January 10 - Hiroyuki Nagato, actor
• February 3 - Noboru Akiyama, baseball pitcher
• March 9 - Haruko Wakita, academic
• April 29 - Akira Takarada, actor
• June 25 - Kinya Aikawa, actor, voice actor and tarento
• June 26 - Toru Goto, freestyle swimmer
• July 14 - Jun Hazumi, voice actor
• July 25 - Kazuya Tatekabe, voice actor
• August 20 - Yoko Tsukasa, actress
• September 26 - Shinji Maki, comedian
• October 20 - Empress Michiko, wife of emperor Akihito
• November 22 - Osamu Kobayashi, voice actor
• December 28 - Yujiro Ishihara, actor and singer

  Deaths

• January 9 - Hakaru Hashimoto, medical scientist
• January 13 - Bunzō Hayata, botanist
• January 16 - Tokihiko Okada, silent film actor
• February 24 - Sanjugo Naoki, novelist
• May 30 - Tōgō Heihachirō, admiral of the fleet
• June 26 - Naitō Torajirō, historian and Sinologist
• September 1 - Yumeji Takehisa, nihonga painter