1917 in Japan
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Events from the year 1917 in Japan. It corresponds to TaishÅ 6 (大æ£6å¹´) in the Japanese calendar.
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Incumbents
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: Åta Masahiro
- Kyoto Prefecture: JÅ«shirÅ 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 â 1917 Japanese general election
- May 8â12 â 1917 Far Eastern Games held in Tokyo.[2]
- October 1 â 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 â LansingâIshii Agreement
Births
- January 1 â Shuntaro Hida, physician (d. 2017)
- February 5 â Isuzu Yamada, actress (d. 2012)
- March 5 â Mutsuo Toi, spree killer (d. 1938)
- May 6 â Prince Morihiro Higashikuni, husband of Princess Teru (d. 1969)
- May 10 â Shigeo Sugiura, freestyle swimmer (d. 1988)
- August 15 â Yukio Tsuda, football player (d. 1979)
- August 25 â Tosio Kato, mathematician (d. 1999)
- September 7 â Tetsuo Hamuro, breaststroke swimmer (d. 2005)
- September 11 â Yukiko Todoroki, actress (d. 1967)
- October 19 â Kusuo Kitamura, Olympic swimmer (d. 1996)
- November 25 â Noboru Terada, free style swimmer (d. 1986)
Deaths
- July 19 â KyÅsuke Eto, army officer (b. 1881)
- August 19 â Kikuchi Dairoku, mathematician and educator, (b. 1855)
- August 21 â Yoshito Okuda, Mayor of Tokyo (b. 1860)
- October 24 â Katayama TÅkuma, architect (b. 1854)
- December 23 â Aoyama Tanemichi, medical scientist and doctor (b. 1859)