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See also:	Other events of 1943 History of Japan  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year1943 inJapan.

• Emperor:Hirohito^[1]
• Prime Minister:Hideki Tōjō

• Aichi Prefecture:Yukisawa Chiyoji (until 1 July);Shinji Yoshino (starting 1 July)
• Akita Prefecture:Fumi (until 1 January);Katsumi Osafune (starting 1 July)
• Aomori Prefecture:Shunsuke Yamada (until 31 March);Utsunomiya Kohei (starting 31 March)
• Ehime Prefecture:Ryuichi Fukumoto (until 1 July);Aikawa Katsuroku (starting 1 July)
• Fukui Prefecture:Nagano Wakamatsu (until 16 July);Hatsuo Kato (starting 16 July)
• Fukushima Prefecture:Yoshio Araki (until 30 June);Koichi Kameyama (starting 1 July)
• Gifu Prefecture:Miyoshi Shigeo
• Gunma Prefecture:Goro Murata (until 22 April);Shinoyama Chiyuki (starting 22 April)
• Hiroshima Prefecture:Saiichiro Miyamura (until 1 July);Sukenari Yokoyama (starting 1 July)
• Ibaraki Prefecture:Tsujiyama (until 1 July);Sieve Yoshimi (starting 1 July)
• Iwate Prefecture:Osamuzo Suzuki
• Kagawa Prefecture:Yoshiji Kosuga
• Kochi Prefecture:Naoaki Hattori (until 1 July);Saburo Takahashi (starting 1 July)
• Kumamoto Prefecture:Hikari Akira
• Kyoto Prefecture:Ando Kyoushirou (until August);Chiyoji Yukizawa (starting August)
• Mie Prefecture:Yoshiro Nakano (until 1 July);Yoshio Mochinaga (starting 1 July)
• Miyagi Prefecture:Otomaru Kato (until 1 July);Nobuya Uchida (starting 1 July)
• Miyazaki Prefecture:Osafume Katsumi (until 1 July);Tadao Nishihiro (starting 1 July)
• Nagano Prefecture:Nagoya Osamu (until 10 January);Yoshio Koriyama (starting 10 January)
• Niigata Prefecture:Doi Shohei (until 1 February);Maeda Tamon (starting 1 February)
• Oita Prefecture:Ito Hisamatsu (until 1 May)
• Okinawa Prefecture:Hajime Hayakawa (until 1 July);Osamu Mori Izumi (starting 1 July)
• Saga Prefecture:Yue Yue [ja]
• Saitama Prefecture:Toshio Otsu (until 1 July);Sudo Tetsushin (starting 1 July)
• Shiname Prefecture:Goro Koizumi (until 10 October);Takeo Yamada (starting 10 October)
• Tochigi Prefecture:Soma Toshio
• Tokyo:Matsumura Miro (until 1 July);Shigeo Daitachi (starting 1 July)
• Toyama Prefecture:Kingo Machimura (until 23 April);Saka Shinya (starting 23 April)
• Yamagata Prefecture:Akira Saito

• January 14 – February 7 –Operation Ke
• January 29–30 –Battle of Rennell Island
• January 29–31 –Battle of Wau
• March 2–4 –Battle of the Bismarck Sea
• March 27 –Battle of the Komandorski Islands
• May 11–30 –Battle of Attu
• June 28 – July 1 –Battle of Viru Harbor
• June 30 – July 3 –Battle of Wickham Anchorage
• July 6 –Battle of Kula Gulf
• July 10–11 –Battle of Enogai
• July 12/13 –Battle of Kolombangara
• July 20 –Battle of Bairoko
• July 22 – August 4 –Battle of Munda Point
• August 6–7 –Battle of Vella Gulf
• August 17–18 –Battle off Horaniu
• September 10 –1943 Tottori earthquake
• October 27 – November 12 –Battle of the Treasury Islands
• November 7–8 –Battle of Koromokina Lagoon
• November 18–25 –Battle of Piva Forks
• November 20–23 –Battle of Tarawa
• November 20–23 –Battle of Makin

• Sanshiro Sugata
• Momotarō no Umiwashi

• January 7 –Sadako Sasaki,hibakusha (d.1955)
• January 15 –Kirin Kiki, actress (d.2018)
• January 19 –Haruo Yasuda, golfer
• February 20 –Antonio Inoki, wrestler
• February 22 –Otoya Yamaguchi, assassin (d.1960)
• April 3 –Hikaru Saeki, Japanese admiral, the first femalestar officer of theJapan Self-Defense Forces
• April 5 –Fighting Harada, boxer (real name Masahiko Harada)
• May 4 –Michiyo Azusa, singer and actress (real name Michiyo Hayashi) (d.2020)^[2]
• June 20 –Masayuki Uemura, engineer and video game producer (d.2021)^[3]
• August 17 –Yukio Kasaya, ski jumper
• September 16 –Tadamasa Goto, Japaneseyakuza boss
• November 20 –Mie Hama, actress
• December 2 –Kiwako Taichi, actress (d.1992)
• December 11 –Mariko Kaga, actress

• June 9- Mie Dong Long,film maker
• February 4 –Senjūrō Hayashi, Prime Minister of Japan (b.1876)
• March 19
  • Tsugi Takano, poet (b.1890)
  • Fujishima Takeji, painter (b.1867)
• April 18 –Isoroku Yamamoto, admiral (b.1884)
• May 29 –Yasuyo Yamasaki, army officer (b.1891)
• June 11 –Heisuke Abe, general (b.1886)
• July 6 –Teruo Akiyama, admiral (b.1891)
• July 12/13 –Shunji Isaki, admiral (b.1892)
• July 18 –Miyake Kaho, novelist, essayist and poet (b.1868)
• August 21 –Hirohide Fushimi, lieutenant Commander (b.1912)
• August 22 –Tōson Shimazaki, author (b.1872)
• September 10 –Takeshi Sakurada, lieutenant general (b.1891)
• October 16 –Yanagihara Naruko, lady-in-waiting and concubine (b.1859)
• October 17 –Denji Kuroshima, author (b.1898)
• November 20 –Keiji Shibazaki, rear admiral (b.1894)
• November 26 –Kiyoto Kagawa, admiral (killed in action) (b.1895)

• List of Japanese films of the 1940s

• 1943 in Japan
• 1940s in Japan
• 1943 by country
• Years of the 20th century in Japan
• 1943 in Asia

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