1935 in Japan

Incumbents

• Emperor: Hirohito
• Prime Minister: Keisuke Okada

  Events

• January 8 - Battle of Khalkhyn Temple
• February 11 - Tosoh was founded in Tokuyama 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.
• Unknown date - Yakult founded in Fukuoka City.
• Establishment of Naoki Prize and Akutagawa Prize.

  Films

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

  Births

• January 4 - Toru Terasawa, runner
• January 31 - Kenzaburō Ōe, writer, Nobel Prize laureate
• February 22 - Hisako Kyōda, Japanese voice actress
• March 17 - Seiji Yokoyama, musician
• May 15 - Akihiro Miwa, singer, actor, author and drag queen
• June 10 - Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese manga artist
• June 26 - Sumiko Shirakawa, voice actress
• July 12 - Kinji Fukasaku, biochemist
• July 23 - Yukiji Asaoka, singer and actress
• October 2 - Noriko Ohara, actress, voice actress and narrator
• August 24 - Tsutomu Hata, 51st Prime Minister of Japan
• October 10 - Yumiko Kurahashi, writer
• October 15 - Yukio Ninagawa, theater director
• October 29 - Isao Takahata, film director, screenwriter and producer
• November 15 - Kaneta Kimotsuki, voice actor
• November 28 - Masahito, Prince Hitachi
• December 10 - Shūji Terayama, poet, writer, film director, and photographer
• December 19 - Taizo Nishimuro, businessman
• date unknown - Keizaburo Tejima, artist and author

  Deaths

• January 17 - Ishikawa Chiyomatsu, biologist, zoologist, and ichthyologist
• February 28 - Tsubouchi Shōyō, author, critic and educator
• March 20 - Gyoshū Hayami, painter
• August 12 - Tetsuzan Nagata, general