1917 in Japan
Events from the year 1917 in Japan. It corresponds to Taishō 6 in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
Governors
- Aichi Prefecture: Matsui Shigeru
- Akita Prefecture: Genzaburo Kojima ; Hijoki Kawaguchi
- Aomori Prefecture: Matsujiro Obama ; Takeji Kawamura
- Ehime Prefecture: Sakata Kanta ; Raizo Wakabayashi
- Fukui Prefecture: Sato Kozaburo ; Kawashima Miki
- Fukushima Prefecture: Takukichi Kawasaki
- Gifu Prefecture: Shimada Gotaro ; Kanokogi Kogoro
- Gunma Prefecture: Miyake Gennosuke ; Tomojiro Nakagawa
- Hiroshima Prefecture: Eitaro Mabuchi
- Hyogo Prefecture: Seino Chotarno
- Ibaraki Prefecture: Keisuke Sakanaka ; Yuichiro Chikaraishi
- Iwate Prefecture: Rinpei Otsu
- Kagawa Prefecture: Raizo Wakabayashi ; Sakata Kanta
- Kochi Prefecture: Takeo Kakinuma
- Kumamoto Prefecture: Ōta Masahiro
- Kyoto Prefecture: Jūshirō Kiuchi
- Mie Prefecture: Miki Nagano
- Miyagi Prefecture: Tsunenosuke Hamada
- Miyazaki Prefecture: Shutaro Horiuchi
- Nagano Prefecture: Tenta Akaboshi
- Niigata Prefecture: Tsuizui Katagawa ; Watanabe Katsusaburo
- Okinawa Prefecture: Kuniyoshi Suzuki
- Osaka Prefecture: Marques Okubo Toshi Takeshi
- Saga Prefecture:
- * until 17 January: Ishibashi Kazu
- * 17 January-17 December: Okada
- * starting 17 December: Muneyoshi Oshiba
- Saitama Prefecture: Tadahiko Okada
- Shiname Prefecture: Ichiro Oriharami ; Yasukichi Nishimura
- Tochigi Prefecture: Hiroyoshi Hiratsuka
- Tokyo: Yuichi Ionue
- Toyama Prefecture: Ki Masesaku ; Takashi Inoue
- Yamagata Prefecture: Soeda Keiichiro ; Ichiro Yoda
Events
- Japan during World War I
- April 20 - 1917 Japanese general election
- May 8–12 - 1917 Far Eastern Games held in Tokyo.
- October 1 - According to Japanese government official document figure, a large-scale typhoon and tidal wave hit around Tokyo Bay area, 1,362 persons were human fatalities.
- November 2 - Lansing–Ishii Agreement
Births
- January 1 - Shuntaro Hida, physician
- February 5 - Isuzu Yamada, actress
- March 5 - Mutsuo Toi, spree killer
- May 6 - Prince Morihiro Higashikuni, husband of Princess Teru
- May 10 - Shigeo Sugiura, freestyle swimmer
- August 15 - Yukio Tsuda, football player
- August 25 - Tosio Kato, mathematician
- September 7 - Tetsuo Hamuro, breaststroke swimmer
- September 11 - Yukiko Todoroki, actress
- October 19 - Kusuo Kitamura, Olympic swimmer
- November 25 - Noboru Terada, free style swimmer
Deaths
- July 19 - Kyōsuke Eto, army officer
- August 19 - Kikuchi Dairoku, mathematician and educator,
- August 21 - Yoshito Okuda, Mayor of Tokyo
- October 24 - Katayama Tōkuma, architect
- December 23 - Aoyama Tanemichi, medical scientist and doctor