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Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s
See also:	Other events of 1917 History of Japan  • Timeline  • Years

Events from the year1917 inJapan. It corresponds toTaishō 6 (大正6年) in theJapanese calendar.

• Emperor:Taishō^[1]
• Prime Minister:Terauchi Masatake

• Aichi Prefecture:Matsui Shigeru
• Akita Prefecture:Genzaburo Kojima (until 29 January);Hijoki Kawaguchi (starting 29 January)
• Aomori Prefecture:Matsujiro Obama (until 17 January);Takeji Kawamura (starting 17 January)
• Ehime Prefecture:Sakata Kanta (until 29 January);Raizo Wakabayashi (starting 29 January)
• Fukui Prefecture:Sato Kozaburo (until 29 January);Kawashima Miki (starting 29 January)
• Fukushima Prefecture:Takukichi Kawasaki
• Gifu Prefecture:Shimada Gotaro (until 17 January);Kanokogi Kogoro (starting 17 January)
• Gunma Prefecture:Miyake Gennosuke (until 26 September);Tomojiro Nakagawa (starting 26 September)
• Hiroshima Prefecture:Eitaro Mabuchi
• Hyogo Prefecture:Seino Chotarno
• Ibaraki Prefecture:Keisuke Sakanaka (until 17 January);Yuichiro Chikaraishi (starting 17 January)
• Iwate Prefecture:Rinpei Otsu
• Kagawa Prefecture:Raizo Wakabayashi (until 29 January);Sakata Kanta (starting 29 January)
• 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 (until 17 December);Watanabe Katsusaburo (starting 17 December)
• Okinawa Prefecture:Kuniyoshi Suzuki
• Osaka Prefecture:Marques Okubo Toshi Takeshi (until month unknown)
• 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 (until 29 January);Yasukichi Nishimura (starting 29 January)
• Tochigi Prefecture:Hiroyoshi Hiratsuka
• Tokyo:Yuichi Ionue
• Toyama Prefecture:Ki Masesaku (until 29 January);Takashi Inoue (starting 29 January)
• Yamagata Prefecture:Soeda Keiichiro (until 17 December);Ichiro Yoda (starting 17 December)

• Japan during World War I
• April 20 –1917 Japanese general election
• May 8–12 –1917 Far Eastern Games held in Tokyo.^[2]
• October 1 – According toJapanese government official document figure, a large-scaletyphoon andtidal wave hit aroundTokyo Bay area, 1,362 persons were human fatalities.^[3]
• November 2 –Lansing–Ishii Agreement

• January 1 –Shuntaro Hida, physician (d.2017)
• February 5 –Isuzu Yamada, actress (d.2012)
• March 5 –Mutsuo Toi, spree killer (d.1938)
• May 6 – PrinceMorihiro Higashikuni, husband ofPrincess Teru (d.1969)
• May 10 –Shigeo Sugiura, freestyle swimmer (d.1988)
• August 15 –Yukio Tsuda, football player (d.1979)
• August 25 –Tosio Kato, mathematician (d.1999)
• September 7 –Tetsuo Hamuro, breaststroke swimmer (d.2005)
• September 11 –Yukiko Todoroki, actress (d.1967)
• October 19 –Kusuo Kitamura,Olympic swimmer (d.1996)
• November 25 –Noboru Terada, free style swimmer (d.1986)

• July 19 –Kyōsuke Eto, army officer (b. 1881)
• August 19 –Kikuchi Dairoku, mathematician and educator, (b. 1855)
• August 21 –Yoshito Okuda,Mayor of Tokyo (b. 1860)
• October 24 –Katayama Tōkuma, architect (b. 1854)
• December 23 –Aoyama Tanemichi, medical scientist and doctor (b. 1859)

• List of Japanese films of the 1910s
• Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I

• 1917 in Japan
• 1910s in Japan
• 1917 by country
• Years of the 20th century in Japan
• 1917 in Asia

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