1917 in Japan
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Events from the year 1917 in Japan. It corresponds to Taishō 6 (大正6年) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
Events
- Japan during World War I
- April 20 – 1917 Japanese general election
- May – 1917 Far Eastern Games held in Tokyo
- 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
References
- ^ "Taishō | emperor of Japan". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.