1913 in Japan
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Events in the year 1913 in Japan.
Incumbents
- Emperor: Emperor Taishō[1]
- Prime Minister:
- Katsura Tarō (until February 20)
- Yamamoto Gonnohyōe (starting February 20)
Events
- January 21 – The first French private school opens in Tokyo. Later graduates include Sakaguchi Ango, Tanizaki Junichiro and Takehisa Yumeji.
- February unknown date – Mochida Pharmaceutical was founded, as predecessor name Mochida Pharmacy Shop.
- November 11 – House Foods founded. (As predecessor name was Urakami Shoten)
- Unknown date – Takarazuka Revue founded in Hyogo Prefecture, as predecessor name was Takarazuka Chorus Group.
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 28 – Toko Shinoda, painter
- 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)
References
- "Taishō | emperor of Japan". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
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