# 1917 in Japan

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.
* 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)