1917 in Japan
Events from the year 1917 in Japan. It corresponds to Taishō 6 in the Japanese calendar.Incumbents
- Emperor: Taishō
- Prime Minister: Terauchi Masatake
Events
- Japan during World War I
- April 20 - 1917 Japanese general election
- May - 1917 Far Eastern Games held in Tokyo
- 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
