Events from the year 1917 in Japan. It corresponds to Taishō 6 (大正6年) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents Emperor: Taishō 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. 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.:ja:大正6年の高潮被害 (Japanese language edition) Retrieved date on November 2022. 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
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