1913 in Japan explained

Events in the year 1913 in Japan. It corresponds to Taishō 2 (大正2年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

• Emperor

Emperor Taishō^[1]

• Prime Minister

• • Katsura Tarō (until February 20)
  • Yamamoto Gonnohyōe (starting February 20)

Governors

• Aichi Prefecture

Kenzo Ishihara (until 13 March); Matsui Shigeru (starting 13 March)

• Akita Prefecture: Toyosuke Haneda
• Aomori Prefecture: Takeda Chiyosaburo (until 1 June); Takeo Tanaka (starting 1 June)
• Ehime Prefecture: Renarto Fukamachi
• Fukui Prefecture: Tokiwa Ikematsu (until 1 June); Teru Kagawa (starting 1 June)
• Fukushima Prefecture: Hiromichi Nishikubo (until 1 June); Ota Masahiro (starting 1 June)
• Gifu Prefecture: Sadakichi Usu (until 1 June); Shimada Gotaro (starting 1 June)
• Gunma Prefecture: Yasuyoshi Kurogane (until 1 June); Muneyoshi Oshiba (starting 1 June)
• Hiroshima Prefecture

Nakamura Junkuro (until 27 February); Terada Yushi (starting 27 February)

• Ibaraki Prefecture

Keisuke Sakanaka

• Iwate Prefecture: Shinichi Kasai (until 3 March); Sadajiro Tsutsumi (starting 3 March)
• Kagawa Prefecture: Kogoro Kanokogi
• Kumamoto Prefecture

Ueyama Mitsunoshin (until 31 May); Akahoshi Futoshi (starting 31 May)

• Kochi Prefecture: Goro Sugiyama (until 1 June); Kinjiro Nagai (starting 1 June)
• Kyoto Prefecture

Shoichi Omori

• Mie Prefecture: Magoichi Tahara
• Miyagi Prefecture

Terada Yushi (until 27 February); Mori Masataka (starting 27 February)

• Miyazaki Prefecture: Tadakazu Ariyoshi
• Nagano Prefecture

Teikan Chiba (until 3 April); Ichiro Yoda (starting 3 April)

• Nara Prefecture: Raizo Wakabayashi (until month unknown)
• Niigata Prefecture

Izawa Takio (until 8 September); Ando Kensuke (starting 8 September)

• Okayama Prefecture

Tsunamasa Ōyama (until month unknown)

• Okinawa Prefecture

Hibi Shigeaki (until 1 June); Takuya Takahashi (starting 1 June)

• Osaka Prefecture

Marques Okubo Toshi Takeshi

• Saga Prefecture

Fuwa

• Saitama Prefecture

Shimada Gotaro (until 1 June); Soeda Keiichiro (starting 1 June)

• Shiname Prefecture: Takaoka Naokichi
• Tochigi Prefecture: Okada Bunji
• Tokyo

Munakata Tadash

• Tottori Prefecture: Oka Kishichiro Itami (until month unknown)
• Toyama Prefecture: Tsunenosuke Hamada
• Yamagata Prefecture: Iwataro Odakiri

Events

• January 21 – The first French private school opens in Tokyo. Later graduates include Sakaguchi Ango, Tanizaki Junichiro and Takehisa Yumeji.

Births

• January 12  - Yoshi Katō, actor (d. 1988)
• February 9  - Haruyo Ichikawa, film actress (d. 2004)
• February 11  - Masaji Kiyokawa, backstroke swimmer (d. 1999)
• March 7  - Masako Katsura, billiards player (d. 1995)
• March 28  - Toko Shinoda, painter (d. 2021)
• April 12  - Keiko Fukuda, martial artist (d. 2013)
• May 14  - Masaji Iguro, ski jumper (d. 2000)
• June 24  - Takeshi Nagata, earth scientist, (d. 1991)
• July 4  - Princess Ayako Takeda (d. 2003)
• September 4  - Kenzō Tange, architect (d. 2005)
• September 12  - Eiji Toyoda, industrialist (d. 2013)
• October 21  - Princess Sawako Kitashirakawa, daughter of Prince Naruhisa Kitashirakawa (d. 2001)
• October 26  - Sakunosuke Oda, writer (d. 1947)
• November 5  - Seiji Miyaguchi, actor (d. 1985)
• December 15  - Masayoshi Ito, politician (d. 1994)

Deaths

• January 20  - Nakane Kōtei, writer (b. 1839)
• June 23  - Ogino Ginko, first licensed female physician of western medicine in Japan (b. 1851)
• July 5  - Prince Arisugawa Takehito, Marshal Admiral (b. 1862)
• July 10  - Hayashi Tadasu, diplomat and cabinet minister (b. 1850)
• July 30  - Itō Sachio, writer and poet (b. 1864)
• September 2  - Okakura Kakuzō, scholar (b. 1862)
• September 4  - Shōzō Tanaka, social activist (b. 1841)
• October 10  - Katsura Tarō, general and Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)
• November 22  - Tokugawa Yoshinobu, 15th and last Tokugawa shogunate (b. 1837)^[2]
• Ichikawa Kumehachi, kabuki actress (b. 1846)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Taishō emperor of Japan . Encyclopedia Britannica . 27 March 2019 . en.
2. Book: Shimamoto . Mayako . Ito . Koji . Sugita . Yoneyuki . Historical Dictionary of Japanese Foreign Policy . 1 July 2015 . Rowman & Littlefield . 978-1-4422-5067-3 . 297–298 . en.