page_title: 1928 in Japan
section_title: Events
hierarchical_section_title: 1928 in Japan / Events
caption_attribution_description: English: Shōwa Emperor (Hirohito) at his enthronement in 1928.日本語: 昭和3年（1928年）、即位礼に臨む昭和天皇
context_page_description: Events from the year 1928 in Japan. It corresponds to Shōwa 3 in the Japanese calendar.
context_section_description: February 11–19 – Japan competes in the 1928 Winter Olympics in  St. Moritz, Switzerland, the first true Winter Olympics held on its own and not in conjunction with a Summer Olympics.
  February 20 – 1928 Japanese general election: The first general election after the introduction of universal male suffrage was passed in 1925. The ruling Rikken Seiyūkai led by Prime Minister Tanaka Giichi won one more seat than the opposition Rikken Minseitō led by Hamaguchi Osachi, although Rikken Minseitō had received slightly more votes. The hung parliament led to the Tanaka government continuing in office.
  March 15 – March 15 incident: Alarmed by gains made by socialists and communists in the 1928 general election, the conservative government of Prime Minister Giichi Tanaka ordered the mass arrest of known communists and suspected communist sympathizers. The arrests occurred throughout Japan, and a total of 1652 people were apprehended.
  May 3 – Jinan Incident: an armed conflict between the Japanese Imperial Army allied with Northern Chinese warlords against the Kuomintang's southern army, occurs in Jinan, eastern China.
  June 4 – Huanggutun Incident:  Chinese warlord Zhang Zuolin is killed by low-ranking officer in the Japanese Kwantung Army when a bomb his personal train is travelling over explodes. Emperor Hirohito harshly criticized the event and eventually dismissed Prime Minister Tanaka Giichi for his inability to arrest and prosecute the plotters of the incident.
  July 28–August 12 – Japan competes in the ninth Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands. For the 1928 Olympics, Japan won 2 golds, 2 silvers and 1 bronze.
  September 28 – Prince Chichibu marries Matsudaira Setsuko.
  November 10 – Enthronement of Hirohito as Emperor of Japan in the Imperial Palace in Kyoto.
  December 21 – Fujikoshi Steel Industry, later Nachi-Fujikoshi founded in Toyama City.
  Unknown date – A food processing Ito Meat Packer was founded, as predecessor of Itoham-Yonekyu in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture.
caption: Emperor Hirohito after his enthronement ceremony in 1928, dressed in sokutai
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