Events in the year 1934 in Japan.
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- January 8 – 77 persons die and 74 are hurt, when many families and troop members are pushing each other on the platform, before entering the extra troop train in Kyoto station, according to Japanese government official confirmed report.[2]
- March 21 – 1934 Hakodate fire, Japanese government official report, 2166 persons were perished.[page needed]
- 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.[citation needed]
- September 21 – 1934 Muroto typhoon
- November – Military Academy Incident
- Unknown date – Showa Rayon, as predecessor of Kureha, founded.[page needed]
- January 1 – Kiyoshi Kodama, actor (d. 2011)
- January 10 – Hiroyuki Nagato, actor (d. 2011)
- February 3 – Noboru Akiyama, baseball pitcher (d. 2000)
- March 9 – Haruko Wakita, academic (d. 2016)
- April 29 – Akira Takarada, actor
- June 6 – Taichi Yamada, screenwriter and novelist (d. 2023)[3]
- June 8 – Mikio Aoki, politician (d. 2023)
- June 18 – Mitsuteru Yokoyama, manga artist (d. 2004)
- June 25 – Kinya Aikawa, actor, voice actor and tarento (d. 2015)
- June 26 – Toru Goto, freestyle swimmer
- July 14 – Jun Hazumi, voice actor
- July 25 – Kazuya Tatekabe, voice actor (d. 2015)
- August 20 – Yoko Tsukasa, actress
- September 20 – Takayuki Kubota, Japanese-American martial artist and actor
- September 26 – Shinji Maki, comedian (d. 2013)
- October 20 – Empress Michiko, wife of emperor Akihito
- November 22 – Osamu Kobayashi, voice actor (d. 2011)
- December 28 – Yujiro Ishihara, actor and singer (d. 1987)
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