How to read it

1933 minus 1926, the year Shōwa began, plus one, gives 8: 昭和8年. The shortcut Japanese people use: add 25 to a Shōwa year and you have the last two digits of the Western year — 8 + 25 = 33. On paper it is S8: forms print the era options — 明・大・昭・平・令, or the letters M T S H R — beside the date box, and you circle one and write the number. Someone born in 1933 turns 93 in 2026. In kazoedoshi 数え年 — the traditional count that starts at one at birth and adds a year every New Year — they are 94.

1933 in the Chinese zodiac

1933 is the year of the Water Rooster (癸酉). The zodiac year began on 26 January 1933.

Other years

• 1928昭和3年
• 1929昭和4年
• 1930昭和5年
• 1931昭和6年
• 1932昭和7年
• 1934昭和9年
• 1935昭和10年
• 1936昭和11年
• 1937昭和12年
• 1938昭和13年

Every year of the Shōwa era → · How the Japanese calendar works, and every year 1868–2050