1925 in Japan

Events from the year 1925 in Japan. It corresponds to Taishō 14 in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

January 20 - Soviet–Japanese Basic Convention is signed between the Empire of Japan and the Soviet Union. Ratifications were exchanged in Beijing on February 26, 1925. The agreement was registered in the League of Nations Treaty Series on May 20, 1925.
March 5 - Nippon Air Brake was founded in Kobe, as predecessor of Nabtesco.
March 7 - The Public Security Preservation Law of 1925 is passed in the diet. It forbade conspiracy and revolt, and it criminalized socialism and communism. It was one of the most significant laws of pre-war Japan.
March - A nation's first license radio station, NHK Radio One, an official broadcasting service start in Tokyo, following start on June 1 in Osaka and July 15 in Nagoya.
April Unknown date - Sanki Engineering was founded.
May 1 - Matsuya Department Store of Ginza was open in Tokyo.
May 5 - The General Election Law was passed, giving all men above age 25 the right to vote.
May 12 - The Public Security Preservation Law is enacted.
May 23 - 1925 Kita Tajima earthquake
November 13 - The University of Tokyo Earthquake Research Institute is founded.
December 28 - The Tokyo-based sumo association absorbed its Osaka-based rival to form the.

January 11 - Kihachirō Kawamoto, film director, screenwriter and animator
January 14 - Yukio Mishima, author, poet, and playwright
January 28 - Yasuji Mori, animator
February 26 - Hitoshi Takagi, voice actor
February 27 - Shoichiro Toyoda, business executive
March 12 - Leo Esaki, physicist, Nobel laureate
May 10 - Norio Kijima, announcer and politician
July 12 - Yasushi Akutagawa, composer and conductor
August 13 - Asao Sano, actor
November 30 - Genshō Imanari, literature academic
December 6 - Shigeko, Princess Teru, later "Shigeko Higashikuni", eldest child of Emperor Shōwa