1913 in Japan

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

← 1912 1911 1910 1913 in Japan → 1914 1915 1916
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
See also:	Other events of 1913 History of Japan Timeline Years

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)