1923 in Japan
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Events in the year 1923 in Japan. It corresponds to TaishÅ 12 (大æ£12å¹´) in the Japanese calendar.
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Incumbents
- Emperor: TaishÅ[1]
- Regent: Hirohito
- Prime Minister:
- KatÅ TomosaburÅ (until August 24)
- Yamamoto GonnohyÅe (from September 2)
Governors
- Aichi Prefecture: Hikoji Kawaguchi (until 16 June); Masahiro Ota (starting 16 June)
- Akita Prefecture: Masao Kishimoto
- Aomori Prefecture: Yujiro Ozaki (until 25 October); Kazue Baba (starting 25 October)
- Ehime Prefecture: Juunosuke Miyazaki
- Fukui Prefecture: Josuke Shiraogawa
- Fukushima Prefecture: Iwata Mamoru (until 25 October); Kosaka Masayasu (starting 25 October)
- Gifu Prefecture: Manpei Ueda
- Gunma Prefecture: Yamaoka Kunitoshi
- Hiroshima Prefecture: Kamehiko Abe (until 25 October); Jiro Yamagata (starting 25 October)
- Ibaraki Prefecture: Genjiro Moriya (until 25 October); Shohei Fujinuma (starting 25 October)
- Iwate Prefecture: Ushidzuka Torataro
- Kagawa Prefecture: Shuji Sasaki (until 25 October); Nakagawa Kenzo (starting 25 October)
- Kanagawa Prefecture: Yasukouchi Asakichi
- Kochi Prefecture: Toyoji Obata (until 25 October); Fujioka Hyoichi (starting 25 October)
- Kumamoto Prefecture: Tadahiko Okada (until 12 October); Chisato Tanaka (starting 12 October)
- Kyoto Prefecture: Tokikazu Ikematsu
- Mie Prefecture: Saburo Shibata (until 25 October); Tago Ilman (starting 25 October)
- Miyagi Prefecture: Yuichiro Chikaraishi
- Miyazaki Prefecture: Muneyoshi Oshiba (until 25 October); Saito Munenori (starting 25 October)
- Nagano Prefecture: Toshio Honma
- Niigata Prefecture: Ota Masahiro (until 11 June); Ohara Sanarata (starting 11 June)
- Okayama Prefecture: Masao Kishimoto
- Okinawa Prefecture: Jyun Wada (until 25 October); Ki Iwamoto (starting 25 October)
- Saga Prefecture: Tominaga
- Saitama Prefecture: Horiuchi Hidetaro (until 25 October); Motoda Tashio (starting 25 October)'
- Shiga Prefecture: Kaiichiro Suematsu (starting month unknown)
- Shiname Prefecture: Sanehide Takarabe (until 25 October); Naganobu Ren (starting 25 October)
- Tochigi Prefecture: Haruki Yamawaki
- Tokyo: Katsuo Usami
- Toyama Prefecture: Kihachiro Ito
- Yamagata Prefecture: Agata Shinobu
Events
- April unknown date â Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical was founded, as predecessor part of Astellas Pharma.[citation needed]
- May 21â25 â 1923 Far Eastern Games held in Osaka.[2]
- August 24 â Prime Minister KatÅ TomosaburÅ dies in office.
- August 29 â Fuji Electric Manufacturing, later Fuji Electric was founded.[citation needed]
- September 1 â The Great KantÅ earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing an estimated 142,807 people, but according to a Japanese construction research center report in 2005, 105,000 are confirmed dead. Varied accounts indicate the duration of the earthquake was between four and ten minutes.[3]
- September 1-21 - KantÅ Massacre: Young Japanese vigilante groups, driven by rumors of a Korean revolt, attack and murder thousands of Korean residents.
- September 2
- Yamamoto GonnohyÅe is appointed Prime Minister of Japan.
- Martial law declared in Tokyo districts
- September 3â5 â Kameido incident
- September 4 â The area of martial law is expanded to cover all of Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, and Saitama prefectures.
- September 7 â A Curfew is issued in Tokyo.
- September 16 â Amakasu Incident: The feminist Noe ItÅ and her partner, the anarchist Sakae Åsugi are beaten and killed by a police squadron led by Lieutenant Amakasu Masahiko, along with Åsugi's six-year-old nephew, and their bodies disposed in a well. Following countrywide outcry, Amakasu was court-martialed and sentenced to 10 years in prison.[4]
- December 27 â Toranomon Incident: An assassination attempt is made on the crown prince Hirohito in Tokyo by Daisuke Namba, but the attempt fails.
- Unknown date âYamanouchi Pharmacy, as predecessor of Astellas was founded.[citation needed]
Births
- February 17 â Jun Fukuda, film director (d. 2000)
- March 27 â ShÅ«saku EndÅ, writer (d. 1996)
- May 24 â Seijun Suzuki, filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter (d. 2017)
- June 4 â Yuriko, Princess Mikasa, wife of Prince Takahito (d. 2024)
- August 7 â RyÅtarÅ Shiba, writer (d. 1996)
- October 7 â Tomio Aoki, film actor (d. 2004)
Deaths
- January 8 â Shimamura Hayao, Marine Admiral (b. 1858)
- February 3 â Kuroki Tamemoto general (b. 1844)
- February 4 â Prince Fushimi Sadanaru, Field Marshal (b. 1858)
- April 1 â Prince Naruhisa Kitashirakawa, military personnel (b. 1887)
- June 9
- Takeo Arishima, novelist, writer and essayist (suicide) (b. 1878)
- Akiko Hatano, journalist (suicide) (b. 1894)
- June 19 â ShÅ ShÅ, member of the House of Peers (b. 1888)
- August 24 â KatÅ TomosaburÅ, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1861)
- September 1 â Matsuoka Yasukowa, politician and cabinet minister (B. 1846)
- September 2 â Kuriyagawa Hakuson, literary critic (b. 1880)
- September 16
- Noe ItÅ, anarchist, social critic and author (b. 1895)
- Sakae Åsugi, anarchist (b. 1885)
- November 8 â Fusakichi Omori, seismologist (b. 1868)
- November 26 â Otani Kikuzo, general (b. 1856)
- December 29 â KÅno Hironaka, politician (b. 1849)