1944 in Japan

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See also:

Other events of 1944
List of years in Japan

Events in the year 1944 in Japan.

Incumbents

Emperor: Hirohito
Prime Minister: Hideki Tōjō

Events

January 31-February 3 - Battle of Kwajalein
February 17–23 - Battle of Eniwetok
April 17-May 25 - Battle of Central Henan
May–August - Battle of Changsha (1944)
June 4-September 7 - Battle of Mount Song
June 15-July 9 - Battle of Saipan
June 15/16 - Bombing of Yawata (June 1944)
June 19–20 - Battle of the Philippine Sea
June 22-August 8 - Defense of Hengyang
July 10-August 25 - Battle of Driniumor River
July 21-August 10 - Battle of Guam (1944)
July 24-August 1 - Battle of Tinian
August 16-November 24 - Battle of Guilin-Liuzhou
September 15-November 27 - Battle of Peleliu
September 17-October 22 - Battle of Angaur
October 10–20 - Formosa Air Battle
December 7 - 1944 Tōnankai earthquake
December 30–31 - Battle of Pearl Ridge

Births

July 8 - Hironobu Takesaki

Deaths

January 25 - Monzo Akiyama
February 21 - Yoshimi Nishida
March 29 - Kiichi Hasegawa
March 31 - Mineichi Koga
May 24 - Matsuji Ijuin
July 6 - Chūichi Nagumo
July 8 - Takeo Takagi
July 10 - Yoshitsugu Saitō
July 19 - Shigeo Arai
July 28 - Takeshi Takashina
August 1 - Kiyochi Ogata
August 2 - Goichi Oya, Kakuji Kakuta
August 11 - Hideyoshi Obata
October 15 - Masafumi Arima
October 26 - Hiroyoshi Nishizawa
November 24 - Kunio Nakagawa

Years in Japan (1868–present)

Meiji period (1868–1912)

1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912

Taishō period (1912–1926)

1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926

Shōwa period (1926–1989)

1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989

Heisei period (1989–present)

1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015

1944 in Asia

Sovereign states	Afghanistan Armenia Azerbaijan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Burma (Myanmar) Cambodia China Cyprus East Timor (Timor-Leste) Egypt Georgia India Indonesia Iran Iraq Israel Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Nepal Oman Pakistan Philippines Qatar Russia Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkey Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen

States with limited recognition	Abkhazia Nagorno-Karabakh Northern Cyprus Palestine South Ossetia Taiwan

Dependencies and other territories	British Indian Ocean Territory Christmas Island Cocos (Keeling) Islands Hong Kong Macau