1917 in Japan

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

← 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

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