1913 in Japan

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Events in the year 1913 in Japan.

Incumbents

• Emperor: Emperor Taishō
• Prime Minister:
  • Katsura Tarō (until February 20)
  • Yamamoto Gonnohyōe (starting February 20)

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 28 – Toko Shinoda, painter
• 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)
• Ichikawa Kumehachi, kabuki actress (b. 1846)