# 1913 in Japan

Events in the year 1913 in Japan. It corresponds to Taishō 2 (大正2年) in the Japanese calendar.

## Incumbents

* Emperor: Emperor Taishō
* 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 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)
* Ichikawa Kumehachi, kabuki actress (b. 1846)