1917 in Japan
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Events from the year 1917 in Japan. It corresponds to Taishō 6 (大正6年) in the Japanese calendar.
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: 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.{{cite book |last1=Bell |first1=Daniel |title=Encyclopedia of international games |date=2003 |publisher=McFarland & Co |location=Jefferson, N.C. |isbn=0-7864-1026-4 |page=473}}
- 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)