1917 in Japan explained

Events from the year 1917 in Japan. It corresponds to Taishō 6 (大正6年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

• Emperor

Taishō^[1]

• Prime Minister

Terauchi Masatake

Governors

• Aichi Prefecture

Matsui Shigeru

• Akita Prefecture: Genzaburo Kojima (until 29 January); Hijoki Kawaguchi (starting 29 January)
• Aomori Prefecture: Matsujiro Obama (until 17 January); Takeji Kawamura (starting 17 January)
• Ehime Prefecture: Sakata Kanta (until 29 January); Raizo Wakabayashi (starting 29 January)
• Fukui Prefecture: Sato Kozaburo (until 29 January); Kawashima Miki (starting 29 January)
• Fukushima Prefecture: Takukichi Kawasaki
• Gifu Prefecture: Shimada Gotaro (until 17 January); Kanokogi Kogoro (starting 17 January)
• Gunma Prefecture: Miyake Gennosuke (until 26 September); Tomojiro Nakagawa (starting 26 September)
• Hiroshima Prefecture

Eitaro Mabuchi

• Hyogo Prefecture: Seino Chotarno
• Ibaraki Prefecture

Keisuke Sakanaka (until 17 January); Yuichiro Chikaraishi (starting 17 January)

• Iwate Prefecture: Rinpei Otsu
• Kagawa Prefecture: Raizo Wakabayashi (until 29 January); Sakata Kanta (starting 29 January)
• Kochi Prefecture: Takeo Kakinuma
• Kumamoto Prefecture

Ōta Masahiro

• Kyoto Prefecture

Jūshirō Kiuchi

• Mie Prefecture: Miki Nagano
• Miyagi Prefecture

Tsunenosuke Hamada

• Miyazaki Prefecture: Shutaro Horiuchi
• Nagano Prefecture

Tenta Akaboshi

• Niigata Prefecture

Tsuizui Katagawa (until 17 December); Watanabe Katsusaburo (starting 17 December)

• Okinawa Prefecture

Kuniyoshi Suzuki

• Osaka Prefecture

Marques Okubo Toshi Takeshi (until month unknown)

• Saga Prefecture

• • until 17 January: Ishibashi Kazu
  • 17 January-17 December: Okada
  • starting 17 December: Muneyoshi Oshiba
• Saitama Prefecture

Tadahiko Okada

• Shiname Prefecture: Ichiro Oriharami (until 29 January); Yasukichi Nishimura (starting 29 January)
• Tochigi Prefecture: Hiroyoshi Hiratsuka
• Tokyo

Yuichi Ionue

• Toyama Prefecture: Ki Masesaku (until 29 January); Takashi Inoue (starting 29 January)
• Yamagata Prefecture: Soeda Keiichiro (until 17 December); Ichiro Yoda (starting 17 December)

Events

• Japan during World War I
• April 20  - 1917 Japanese general election
• May 8–12  - 1917 Far Eastern Games held in Tokyo.^[2]
• October 1  - According to Japanese government official document figure, a large-scale typhoon and tidal wave hit around Tokyo Bay area, 1,362 persons were human fatalities.^[3]
• November 2  - Lansing–Ishii Agreement

Births

• January 1  - Shuntaro Hida, physician (d. 2017)
• February 5  - Isuzu Yamada, actress (d. 2012)
• March 5  - Mutsuo Toi, spree killer (d. 1938)
• May 6  - Prince Morihiro Higashikuni, husband of Princess Teru (d. 1969)
• May 10  - Shigeo Sugiura, freestyle swimmer (d. 1988)
• August 15  - Yukio Tsuda, football player (d. 1979)
• August 25  - Tosio Kato, mathematician (d. 1999)
• September 7  - Tetsuo Hamuro, breaststroke swimmer (d. 2005)
• September 11  - Yukiko Todoroki, actress (d. 1967)
• October 19  - Kusuo Kitamura, Olympic swimmer (d. 1996)
• November 25  - Noboru Terada, free style swimmer (d. 1986)

Deaths

• July 19  - Kyōsuke Eto, army officer (b. 1881)
• August 19  - Kikuchi Dairoku, mathematician and educator, (b. 1855)
• August 21  - Yoshito Okuda, Mayor of Tokyo (b. 1860)
• October 24  - Katayama Tōkuma, architect (b. 1854)
• December 23  - Aoyama Tanemichi, medical scientist and doctor (b. 1859)

See also

• List of Japanese films of the 1910s
• Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I

Notes and References

1. Web site: Taishō emperor of Japan . Encyclopedia Britannica . 27 March 2019 . en.
2. Book: Bell . Daniel . Encyclopedia of international games . 2003 . McFarland & Co . Jefferson, N.C. . 0-7864-1026-4 . 473.
3. [:ja:大正６年の高潮被害]