Events from the year 1935 in Japan.
- January 4 – Toru Terasawa, runner
- January 31 – Kenzaburō Ōe, writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2023)
- February 22 – Hisako Kyōda, Japanese voice actress
- March 17 – Seiji Yokoyama, musician (d. 2017)
- April 17 – Masanori Hata, zoologist, essayist, and filmmaker (d. 2023)
- May 15 – Akihiro Miwa, singer, actor, author and drag queen
- June 10 – Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese manga artist (d. 2015)
- June 26 – Sumiko Shirakawa, voice actress (body discovered. 2015)
- June 29 – Katsuya Nomura, baseball player and manager (d. 2020)
- July 12 – Satoshi Ōmura, biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate[2]
- July 23 – Yukiji Asaoka, singer and actress (d. 2018)
- August 24 – Tsutomu Hata, 51st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 2017)
- September 1 – Seiji Ozawa, conductor (d. 2024)
- September 14 – Fujio Akatsuka, Japanese cartoonist (d. 2008)
- October 2 – Noriko Ohara, actress, voice actress and narrator
- October 9 – Teruyoshi Nakano, special effects director
- October 10 – Yumiko Kurahashi, writer (d. 2005)
- October 15 – Yukio Ninagawa, theater director (d. 2016)
- October 29 – Isao Takahata, film director, screenwriter and producer (d. 2018)
- November 15 – Kaneta Kimotsuki, voice actor (d. 2016)
- November 17 – Masatoshi Sakai, Japanese record producer[3][4]
- November 28 – Masahito, Prince Hitachi
- December 10 – Shūji Terayama, poet, writer, film director, and photographer (d. 1983)
- December 19 – Taizo Nishimuro, businessman (d. 2017)
- date unknown - Keizaburo Tejima, artist and author