1913 in Japan

none 1913 Japan Template:Year in Japan: Flag of Japan (1870–1999).svg 80px Other events of 1913 History of Japan Timeline Years Events in the year 1913 in Japan. It corresponds to Taishō 2 (大正2年) in the Japanese calendar. Incumbents Emperor: Emperor TaishōTaishō emperor of Japan https://www.britannica.com/biography/Taisho Encyclopedia Britannica 27 March 2019 en Prime Minister: Katsura Tarō (until February 20) Yamamoto Gonnohyōe (starting February 20) Governors Aichi Prefecture: Kenzo Ishihara (until 13 March); Matsui Shigeru (starting 13 March) Akita Prefecture: Toyosuke Haneda Aomori Prefecture: Takeda Chiyosaburo (until 1 June); Takeo Tanaka (starting 1 June) Ehime Prefecture: Renarto Fukamachi Fukui Prefecture: Tokiwa Ikematsu (until 1 June); Teru Kagawa (starting 1 June) Fukushima Prefecture: Hiromichi Nishikubo (until 1 June); Ota Masahiro (starting 1 June) Gifu Prefecture: Sadakichi Usu (until 1 June); Shimada Gotaro (starting 1 June) Gunma Prefecture: Yasuyoshi Kurogane (until 1 June); Muneyoshi Oshiba (starting 1 June) Hiroshima Prefecture: Nakamura Junkuro (until 27 February); Terada Yushi (starting 27 February) Ibaraki Prefecture: Keisuke Sakanaka Iwate Prefecture: Shinichi Kasai (until 3 March); Sadajiro Tsutsumi (starting 3 March) Kagawa Prefecture: Kogoro Kanokogi Kumamoto Prefecture: Ueyama Mitsunoshin (until 31 May); Akahoshi Futoshi (starting 31 May) Kochi Prefecture: Goro Sugiyama (until 1 June); Kinjiro Nagai (starting 1 June) Kyoto Prefecture: Shoichi Omori Mie Prefecture: Magoichi Tahara Miyagi Prefecture: Terada Yushi (until 27 February); Mori Masataka (starting 27 February) Miyazaki Prefecture: Tadakazu Ariyoshi Nagano Prefecture: Teikan Chiba (until 3 April); Ichiro Yoda (starting 3 April) Nara Prefecture: Raizo Wakabayashi (until month unknown) Niigata Prefecture: Izawa Takio (until 8 September); Ando Kensuke (starting 8 September) Okayama Prefecture: Tsunamasa Ōyama (until month unknown) Okinawa Prefecture: Hibi Shigeaki (until 1 June); Takuya Takahashi (starting 1 June) Osaka Prefecture: Marques Okubo Toshi Takeshi Saga Prefecture: Fuwa Saitama Prefecture: Shimada Gotaro (until 1 June); Soeda Keiichiro (starting 1 June) Shiname Prefecture: Takaoka Naokichi Tochigi Prefecture: Okada Bunji Tokyo: Munakata Tadash Tottori Prefecture: Oka Kishichiro Itami (until month unknown) Toyama Prefecture: Tsunenosuke Hamada Yamagata Prefecture: Iwataro Odakiri Events January 21 – The first French private school opens in Tokyo. Later graduates include Sakaguchi Ango, Tanizaki Junichiro and Takehisa Yumeji. Births January 12 – Yoshi Katō, actor (d. 1988) February 9 – Haruyo Ichikawa, film actress (d. 2004) February 11 – Masaji Kiyokawa, backstroke swimmer (d. 1999) March 7 – Masako Katsura, billiards player (d. 1995) March 28 – Toko Shinoda, painter (d. 2021) April 12 – Keiko Fukuda, martial artist (d. 2013) May 4 – Hisaya Morishige, actor (d. 2009) May 14 – Masaji Iguro, ski jumper (d. 2000) June 24 – Takeshi Nagata, earth scientist, (d. 1991) July 4 – Princess Ayako Takeda (d. 2003) September 4 – Kenzō Tange, architect (d. 2005) September 12 – Eiji Toyoda, industrialist (d. 2013) October 21 – Princess Sawako Kitashirakawa, daughter of Prince Naruhisa Kitashirakawa (d. 2001) October 26 – Sakunosuke Oda, writer (d. 1947) November 5 – Seiji Miyaguchi, actor (d. 1985) December 15 – Masayoshi Ito, politician (d. 1994) Deaths January 20 – Nakane Kōtei, writer (b. 1839) June 23 – Ogino Ginko, first licensed female physician of western medicine in Japan (b. 1851) July 5 – Prince Arisugawa Takehito, Marshal Admiral (b. 1862) July 10 – Hayashi Tadasu, diplomat and cabinet minister (b. 1850) July 30 – Itō Sachio, writer and poet (b. 1864) September 2 – Okakura Kakuzō, scholar (b. 1862) September 4 – Shōzō Tanaka, social activist (b. 1841) October 10 – Katsura Tarō, general and Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848) November 22 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, 15th and last Tokugawa shogunate (b. 1837)Shimamoto Mayako Ito Koji Sugita Yoneyuki Historical Dictionary of Japanese Foreign Policy 1 July 2015 Rowman & Littlefield 978-1-4422-5067-3 297–298 https://books.google.com/books?id=g8PyCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA298 en Ichikawa Kumehachi, kabuki actress (b. 1846) References 1913 in Category:1910s in Japan Japan Category:1913 in Asia