1914 in Japan

Events in the year 1914 in Japan. It corresponds to Taishō 3 in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

Governors

Aichi Prefecture: Matsui Shigeru
Akita Prefecture: Toyosuke Haneda ; Saburo Sakamoto
Aomori Prefecture: Takeo Tanaka ; Matsujiro Obama
Ehime Prefecture: Renarto Fukamachi
Fukui Prefecture: Teru Kagawa ; Sato Kozaburo
Fukushima Prefecture: Ota Masahiro
Gifu Prefecture: Shimada Gotaro
Gunma Prefecture: Muneyoshi Oshiba ; Miyake Gennosuke
Hiroshima Prefecture: Terada Yushi
Hyogo Prefecture: Seino Chotarno
Ibaraki Prefecture: Keisuke Sakanaka
Ishikawa Prefecture: Kiichirō Kumagai
Iwate Prefecture: Sadajiro Tsutsumi ; Rinpei Otsu
Kagawa Prefecture: Kogoro Kanokogi ; Takeji Kawamura
Kochi Prefecture: Kinjiro Nagai ; Toki Kahei
Kumamoto Prefecture: Akahoshi Futoshi ; Kawakami Shinhare
Kyoto Prefecture: Shoichi Omori
Mie Prefecture: Magoichi Tahara ; Eitaro Mabuchi
Miyagi Prefecture: Mori Masataka ; Magoichi Tahara
Miyazaki Prefecture: Tadakazu Ariyoshi
Nagano Prefecture: Ichiro Yoda ; Yuichiro Chikaraishi
Niigata Prefecture: Ando Kensuke ; Keisuke Sakanaka
Okinawa Prefecture: Takuya Takahashi ; Kyūgorō Ōmi
Osaka Prefecture: Marques Okubo Toshi Takeshi
Saga Prefecture: Fuwa ; Raizo Wakabayashi
Saitama Prefecture: Soeda Keiichiro ; Akira Sakaya
Shiname Prefecture: Takaoka Naokichi ; Ichiro Oriharami ;
Tochigi Prefecture: Okada Bunji ; Shin Kitagawa
Tokyo: Munakata Tadash ; Kubota Kiyochika
Toyama Prefecture: Tsunenosuke Hamada
Yamagata Prefecture: Iwataro Odakiri

Events

January - Siemens scandal breaks out.
February 10-14 large-scale demonstrations erupted in Tokyo in response to the Siemens scandal.
March 24 - Both houses of the Imperial Diet refused to pass the 1914 Navy budget
April 16 - Yamamoto Gonnohyōe resigns as Prime Minister
August 7 - The United Kingdom officially asked Japan for assistance in destroying the raiders from the Imperial German Navy in and around Chinese waters.
August 23 - Japan declares war on Germany.
August 25 - Japan declares war on Austria-Hungary, after Vienna refused to withdraw the Austro-Hungarian cruiser SMS Kaiserin Elisabeth from Qingdao.
September 2 - Japanese forces landed on China's Shandong province and surrounded the German settlement at Qingdao
September 6 - A seaplane launched by the seaplane-carrier Wakamiya. unsuccessfully attacked the Austro-Hungarian cruiser Kaiserin Elisabeth and the German gunboat Jaguar with bombs
October - The Imperial Japanese Navy seized several of Germany's island colonies in the Pacific - the Mariana, Caroline, and Marshall Islands - with virtually no resistance. The Japanese Navy conducted the world's first naval-launched air raids against German-held land targets in Shandong province and ships in Qiaozhou Bay from Wakamiya.
October 17-November 7 - Naval operations around Qingdao, China.
October 31-November 7 - Siege of Tsingtao concluded with the surrender of German colonial forces.
December 20 - Tokyo Station opened with four platforms; two serving electric trains and two serving non-electric trains.

Births

January 12 - Mieko Kamiya, psychiatrist
April 16 - Hiro Saga, noblewoman
May 20 - Hideko Maehata, breaststroke swimmer and first Japanese woman to win an Olympic gold medal.
May 30 - Akinoumi Setsuo, sumo wrestler
June 12 - Go Seigen, Go player
July 30 - Michizō Tachihara, poet and architect
August 2 - Sueo Ōe, athlete
August 19 - Fumio Hayasaka, composer
August 25 - Shizuko Kasagi, singer
September 1 - Tsuneko Sasamoto, photojournalist
October 1 - Hamao Umezawa, microbiologist
October 25 - Yukie Arata, freestyle swimmer
November 3 - Saburo Okita, foreign minister

Deaths

January 16 - Itō Sukeyuki, admiral
February 16 - Aoki Shūzō politician and diplomat
April 9 - Empress Shōken, consort of Emperor Meiji
November 16 - Shunrō Oshikawa, author and journalist