1917 in Japan

← 1916 1915 1914 1917 in Japan → 1918 1919 1920
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
See also:	Other events of 1917 History of Japan  • Timeline  • Years

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:
• Akita Prefecture: (until 29 January); (starting 29 January)
• Aomori Prefecture: (until 17 January); (starting 17 January)
• Ehime Prefecture: (until 29 January); Raizo Wakabayashi (starting 29 January)
• Fukui Prefecture: (until 29 January); (starting 29 January)
• Fukushima Prefecture:
• Gifu Prefecture: (until 17 January); (starting 17 January)
• Gunma Prefecture: (until 26 September); (starting 26 September)
• Hiroshima Prefecture: Eitaro Mabuchi
• Hyogo Prefecture:
• Ibaraki Prefecture: (until 17 January); (starting 17 January)
• Iwate Prefecture:
• Kagawa Prefecture: Raizo Wakabayashi (until 29 January); (starting 29 January)
• Kochi Prefecture:
• Kumamoto Prefecture: Ōta Masahiro
• Kyoto Prefecture: Jūshirō Kiuchi
• Mie Prefecture:
• Miyagi Prefecture: Tsunenosuke Hamada
• Miyazaki Prefecture:
• Nagano Prefecture: Tenta Akaboshi
• Niigata Prefecture: (until 17 December); (starting 17 December)
• Okinawa Prefecture:
• Osaka Prefecture: (until month unknown)
• Saga Prefecture:
  • until 17 January:
  • 17 January-17 December: Okada
  • starting 17 December:
• Saitama Prefecture: Tadahiko Okada
• Shiname Prefecture: (until 29 January); (starting 29 January)
• Tochigi Prefecture:
• Tokyo:
• Toyama Prefecture: (until 29 January); Takashi Inoue (starting 29 January)
• Yamagata Prefecture: (until 17 December); Ichiro Yoda (starting 17 December)

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[]

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

References[]