1915 in Japan

← 1914 1913 1912 1915 in Japan → 1916 1917 1918
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
See also:	Other events of 1915 List of years in Japan

Events in the year 1915 in Japan.

Incumbents

• Emperor: Taishō
• Prime Minister: Ōkuma Shigenobu

Events

• Japan during World War I
• January 18 – Twenty-One Demands from Japan to China are made.
• March 25 – Japanese general election, 1915: The Rikken Dōshikai party emerged as the largest party in the House of Representatives, winning 153 of the 381 seats. The 381 members of the House of Representatives were elected in 51 multi-member constituencies based on prefectures and cities. Voting was restricted to men aged over 25 who paid at least 10 yen a year in direct taxation.^[1]
• November 10 – Enthronement of Taishō as Emperor of Japan
• December 9–14 – Sankebetsu brown bear incident: was the worst bear attack in Japanese history,^[2] killing seven settlers^[3] in Rokusensawa, Sankebetsu, Tomamae, Rumoi, Hokkaidō, Japan.
• Ōura scandal
• Tapani incident

Births

• February 15 – Haruo Umezaki, writer (d. 1965)
• February 20 – Takiko Mizunoe, actress, film producer, and radio and TV presenter (d. 2009)
• October 17 – Taiji Tonoyama, actor (d. 1989)
• November 20 – Kon Ichikawa, film director (d. 2008)
• December 2 – Takahito, Prince Mikasa, youngest son of Emperor Taishō (d. 2016)

Deaths

• January 12 – Arisaka Nariakira, Lieutenant general and inventor of the Arisaka rifle (b. 1852)
• August 5 – Sakuma Samata, politician and Governor of Taiwan (b. 1844)
• September 1 – Inoue Kaoru, politician (Genrō) (b. 1836)
• September 4 – Goseda Yoshimatsu, artist (b. 1855)
• September 28 – Saitō Hajime, samurai of the late Edo period, captain of the third unit of the Shinsengumi (b. 1844)
• November 28 – Kobayashi Kiyochika, ukiyo-e artist (b. 1847)

See also

• List of Japanese films of the 1910s
• Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I

References