Deaths
- January 24: Masazumi Inada, lieutenant general in the Japanese Imperial Army
- February 16: Ryusaburo Umehara, artist
- February 21: Shigechiyo Izumi, supercentenarian
- February 24: Iwaichi Fujiwara, officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy
- April 8: Yukiko Okada, idol singer
- April 21: Matsunobori Shigeo, sumo wrestler
- May 13: Katsuji Matsumoto, illustrator and shōjo manga artist
- May 17: Masaji Kitano, medical doctor, microbiologist and the lieutenant general
- June 26: Kunio Maekawa, architect
- June 30: Soichi Ichida, philatelist
- July 31: Chiune Sugihara, diplomat and 'Japanese Schindler'
- September 10: Koji Shima, film director and screenwriter
- September 26: Noboru Terada, freestyle swimmer
- October 14: Takahiko Yamanouchi, theoretical physicist
- October 25: Tadao Tannaka, mathematician
- November 12: Fumiko Enchi, author
- November 26: Kaku Takagawa, Go player
- December 25: Hamao Umezawa, scientist
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