• Source: 1939 in Japan

      • Events in the year 1939 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 14 (昭和14年) in the Japanese calendar.


      Incumbents


      Emperor: Hirohito
      Prime Minister: Fumimaro Konoe until January 5, then Nobuyuki Abe


      = Governors

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      Aichi Prefecture: Kotaro Tanaka
      Akita Prefecture: Kaoru Sasaki (until 11 January); Yukio Tomeoka (starting 11 January)
      Aomori Prefecture: Masanori Ogawa (until 1 March); Noburo Suzuki (starting 1 March)
      Ehime Prefecture: Shizuo Furukawa (until 15 July); Yoshio Mochinaga (starting 15 July)
      Fukui Prefecture: Nakano Yoshiro (until 14 April); Kiyoshi Kimura (starting 14 April)
      Fukuoka Prefecture: Kyuichi Kodama (starting 1940)
      Fukushima Prefecture: Seikichi Kimishima (until 5 September); Seikichi Hashimoto (starting 5 September)
      Gifu Prefecture: Miyano Shozo
      Gunma Prefecture: Shozo Tsuchiya (until 17 April); Kumano Ei (starting 17 April)
      Hiroshima Prefecture: Ichisho Inuma (until 5 September); Katsuroku Aikawa (starting 5 September)
      Ibaraki Prefecture: Shigeru Hamaza (until 11 January); Tokitsugi Yoshinaga (starting 11 January)
      Ishikawa Prefecture: Masasuke Kodama then Narita Ichiro
      Iwate Prefecture: Chiyoji Yukizawa
      Kagawa Prefecture: Nagatoshi Fujioka
      Kanagawa Prefecture: Seiichi Ōmura then Ichisho Inuma
      Kumamoto Prefecture: Tomoichi Koyama
      Kochi Prefecture: Fujioka Nagawa (until 17 April); Shunsuke Kondo (starting 17 April)
      Kyoto Prefecture: Tota Akamatsuko
      Mie Prefecture: Masatoshi Sato (until 3 January); Masanari Ogawa (starting 1 March)
      Miyagi Prefecture: Ryosaku Shimizu
      Miyazaki Prefecture:
      until 12 April: Jiro Ino
      12 April-7 September: Kyuichiro Totsuka
      starting 7 September: Ryosaku Shimizu
      Nagano Prefecture: Tomita Kenji
      Nagasaki Prefecture: Jitsuzo Kawanishi
      Niigata Prefecture: Yasujiro Nakamura (until 5 September); Seikichi Kimishima (starting 5 September)
      Okinawa Prefecture: Fusataro Fuchigami
      Saga Prefecture: Tomoichi Koyama (until 17 April); Kato (starting 17 April)
      Saitama Prefecture: Toki Ginjiro
      Shiname Prefecture: Kyuichi Kodama (until 9 April); ... (starting 9 April)
      Tochigi Prefecture: Adachi Shuuritsu
      Tokyo: Okada Shuzo
      Toyama Prefecture: Kenzo Yano
      Yamagata Prefecture: Takei Yoshitsugu (until 17 April); Ishiguro Takeshige (starting 17 April)


      Events


      February - Hainan Island Operation
      March - Battle of Xiushui River
      March 1 – According to Japanese government official confirmed report, Japanese Imperial Army ammunition dump explode in Hirakata, Osaka Prefecture, 94 persons were human fatalities, 602 persons were hurt.
      March 17-May 9 - Battle of Nanchang
      April 20-May 24 - Battle of Suixian–Zaoyang
      May 11-September 16 - Battles of Khalkhin Gol
      June - Swatow Operation
      June 1 –Nippon Electric Works and Showa Fertilizer were merger, becomes name was Showa Denko.
      September 13-October 8 - Battle of Changsha (1939)
      Unknown date – Mukogawa Higher Women's School was founded, as predecessor of Mukogawa Women's University.


      Births


      February 9 – Tadahiro Matsushita, politician (d. 2012)
      February 17 – Toshihiro Nikai, politician
      March 2 – Takako, Princess Suga, youngest child of Emperor Shōwa
      April 9 – Ikuko Tani, actress, voice actress and narrator
      August 13 – Shijaku Katsura, rakugo performer (d. 1999)
      September 22 – Junko Tabei, mountaineer, first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest (d. 2016)


      Deaths


      February 18 – Kanoko Okamoto, author, poet, and Buddhist scholar (b. 1889)
      March 29 – Michizō Tachihara, poet and architect (b. 1914)
      September 7 – Kyōka Izumi, novelist and Kabuki playwright (b. 1873)
      November 11 – Kagaku Murakami, painter and illustrator (b. 1888)
      December 25 – Masao Nakamura, major general (b. 1892)


      See also


      List of Japanese films of the 1930s


      References

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