1923 in Japan

← 1922 1921 1920 1923 in Japan → 1924 1925 1926
Decades:	1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s
See also:	Other events of 1923 List of years in Japan

Events in the year 1923 in Japan. It corresponds to Taishō 12 (大正12年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

• Emperor: Taishō
• Regent: Hirohito
• Prime Minister:
  • Katō Tomosaburō (until August 24)
  • Yamamoto Gonnohyōe (from September 2)

Events

• May – 1923 Far Eastern Games held in Osaka
• August 24 – Prime Minister Katō Tomosaburō dies in office
• September 1 – The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing an estimated 142,807 people, but according to a Japanese construction research center report in 2005, 105,000 are confirmed dead.
• September 3–5 – Kameido incident
• September 16 – Amakasu Incident
• December 27 – Toranomon Incident: An assassination attempt is made on the crown prince Hirohito in Tokyo by Daisuke Namba, but the attempt fails.

Births

• March 27 – Shūsaku Endō, writer (d. 1996)
• May 24 – Seijun Suzuki, filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter (d. 2017)
• June 4 – Yuriko, Princess Mikasa, wife of Prince Takahito
• August 7 – Ryōtarō Shiba, writer (d. 1996)
• October 7 – Tomio Aoki, film actor (d. 2004)

Deaths

• January 8 – Shimamura Hayao, Marine Admiral (b. 1858)
• February 3 – Kuroki Tamemoto general (b. 1844)
• February 4 – Prince Fushimi Sadanaru, Field Marshal (b. 1858)
• April 1 – Prince Naruhisa Kitashirakawa (b. 1887)
• June 9:
  • Takeo Arishima, novelist, writer and essayist (suicide) (b. 1878)
  • Akiko Hatano, journalist (suicide) (b. 1894)
• August 24 – Katō Tomosaburō, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1861)
• September 16:
  • Noe Itō, anarchist, social critic and author (b. 1895)
  • Sakae Ōsugi, anarchist (b. 1885)
• December 29 – Kōno Hironaka, politician (b. 1849)

See also

• List of Japanese films of the 1920s

References