1925 in Japan

Decades:	1900s; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s;
See also:	Other events of 1925; List of years in Japan

Events from the year 1925 in Japan.

Incumbents

May 5 – The General Election Law (普通選挙法, Futsu Senkyo Hō) was passed, giving all men above age 25 the right to vote.
May 12 – The Public Security Preservation Law of 1925 (治安維持法, Chian Iji Hō) was enacted, specifically against socialism and communism.^[1] It was one of the most significant laws of pre-war Japan.
May 23 – 1925 Kita Tajima earthquake

January 14 – Yukio Mishima, author, poet, and playwright (d. 1970)
February 17 – Shoichiro Toyoda, business executive
March 12 – Leo Esaki, physicist, Nobel laureate
July 12 – Yasushi Akutagawa, composer and conductor (d. 1989)
December 6 – Shigeko, Princess Teru, later "Shigeko Higashikuni", eldest child of Emperor Shōwa (d. 1961)

April 14 – Hirata Tosuke, politician and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal of Japan (b. 1849)
September 25 – Hamao Arata, politician (b. 1849)

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