Deaths
- January 9: Shigekazu Shimazaki, career officer
- May 11: Kiyoshi Ogawa, naval aviator (suicide)
- March 17: Tatsugo Kawaishi, swimmer
- May 16: Shintarō Hashimoto, admiral
- June 3: Fusashige Suzuki, athlete
- June 22: Isamu Chō, officer (suicide)
- June 23: Mitsuru Ushijima, general (suicide)
- August 15: Korechika Anami, war leader (suicide)
- August 15: Matome Ugaki, admiral
- August 16: Takijirō Ōnishi, admiral (suicide)
- August 17: Shimaki Kensaku, author
- August 20: Masahiko Amakasu, officer (suicide)
- August 24: Midori Naka, stage actress
- August 24: Shizuichi Tanaka, general (suicide)
- September 9: Yoshitsugu Tatekawa, lieutenant-general
- September 12: Hajime Sugiyama, field marshal (suicide)
- September 14: Kunihiko Hashida, physician and physiologist (suicide)
- September 20: Chōtoku Kyan, Okinawan karate master
- September 26: Kiyoshi Miki, philosopher
- October 15: Mokutaro Kinoshita, author, Dramaturge, poet, art historian and literary critic
- October 28: Kesago Nakajima, lieutenant-general
- November 30: Shigeru Honjō, general (suicide)
- December 13: Goro Shiba, military leader during the Boxer Rebellion
- December 16: Fumimaro Konoe, former prime minister (suicide)
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