1920 in Japan
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Events in the year 1920 in Japan. It corresponds to Taishō 9 (大正9年) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
Governors
- Aichi Prefecture: Shunji Miyao
- Akita Prefecture: Ryoshin Nao
- Aomori Prefecture: Hidehiko Michioka
- Ehime Prefecture: Toshio Mawatari
- Fukui Prefecture: Kohei Yuji
- Fukuoka Prefecture: Yasukouchi Asakichi
- Fukushima Prefecture: Miyata Mitsuo
- Gifu Prefecture: Kanokogi Kogoro
- Gunma Prefecture: Muneyoshi Oshiba
- Hiroshima Prefecture: Raizo Wakabayashi
- Ibaraki Prefecture: Yuichiro Chikaraishi
- Iwate Prefecture: Takeo Kakinuma
- Kagawa Prefecture: Yoshibumi Satake
- Kochi Prefecture: Abe Yoshihiko
- Kumamoto Prefecture: Hikoji Kawaguchi
- Kyoto Prefecture: Eitaro Mabuchi
- Mie Prefecture: Haruki Yamawaki
- Miyagi Prefecture: Mori Masataka
- Miyazaki Prefecture: Naomiki Hirose
- Nagano Prefecture: Tenta Akaboshi
- Niigata Prefecture: Ota Masahiro
- Okayama Prefecture: Masao Kishimoto
- Okinawa Prefecture: Sōsuke Kawagoe
- Saga Prefecture: Sawada Ushimaro
- Saitama Prefecture: Horiuchi Hidetaro
- Shiname Prefecture: Sanehide Takarabe
- Tochigi Prefecture: Hiroyoshi Hiratsuka
- Tokushima Prefecture: Rinpei Otsu
- Tokyo: Hiroshi Abe
- Toyama Prefecture: Higashizono Motomitsu
- Yamagata Prefecture: Ichiro Yoda
- Yamanashi Prefecture: Miki Nagano
Events
- January 10 – Japan is a founding member of the League of Nations.
- January 30 – Mazda founded, as predecessor name was Toyo Cork Industry.[citation needed]
- February – The Kawanishi Engineering Works, predecessor of ShinMaywa, is founded in Hyogo-ku, Kobe.
- February 1 – Japanese sugar plantation workers in Hawaii officially join a strike led by Filipinos and Hispanic workers.
- February 24 – Nikolayevsk Incident: Realizing that he is outnumbered and far from reinforcement, the commander of the Japanese garrison allows Yakov Triapitsyn's troops to enter the town of Nikolayevsk-on-Amur under a flag of truce.[3]
- May 10 – In the general election, the Rikken Seiyūkai, led by Prime Minister Hara Takashi, increases on its majority of seats in the lower house of the Diet.[4]
- May 31 - The Rome–Tokyo Raid, a cross-Eurasian flight from Rome to Tokyo organized by Harukichi Shimoi and Gabrielle D'Annunzio ends with Arturo Ferrarin arriving in Tokyo.[5]
- June - About 450 Japanese civilians and 350 Japanese soldiers, along with Russian White Army supporters, are massacred by partisan forces associated with the Red Army at Nikolayevsk on the Amur River.
- June Unknown date – Shikishima Bakery was founded in Nagoya, as predecessor of Pasco Shikishima.[citation needed]
- September 1 – Rinnai was founded in Nagoya.[citation needed]
- September 17 – The Victory Medal, a commemorative military medal of Japan awarded to mark service during the First World War, is established by Imperial Edict.
- October 21 – The Battle of Qingshanli begins between the Imperial Japanese Army and Korean armed groups in a densely wooded region of eastern Manchuria called Qīngshānlǐ.[6]
- December 16 – Bank of Yokohama was founded, as predecessor name was Yokohama Kōshō Bank (横浜興商銀行) in Kanagawa Prefecture.[citation needed]
- date unknown
- The literary magazine Teikoku Bungaku is published for the last time.
- The Guards Cavalry Regiment, Guards Field Artillery Regiment, Guards Engineer Battalion, Guards Transport Battalion, plus other Guards service units are added to the Japanese Imperial Guard.
Births
- January 23 – Nejiko Suwa, violinist (d. 2012)
- January 30 – Machiko Hasegawa, Illustrator (d. 1992)
- February 12 – Yoshiko Yamaguchi, singer, actress, journalist, and politician (d. 2014)[7]
- March 17 – Takeo Doi, academic, psychoanalyst and author (d. 2009)
- March 22 – Katsuko Saruhashi, geochemist (d. 2007)
- April 1 – Toshiro Mifune, actor (d. 1997)
- May 9 – Mitsuko Mori, actress (d. 2012)
- May 30 – Shōtarō Yasuoka, writer (d. 2013)
- June 17 – Setsuko Hara, actress (d. 2015)
- July 15 – Yoshio Inaba, actor (d. 1998)
- October 20 – Masao Sugiuchi, go player (d. 2017)
- December 24 – Hiroyuki Agawa, writer (d. 2015)
Deaths
- January 10 – Yoshikawa Akimasa, politician and cabinet minister (b. 1842)
- January 11 – Kataoka Shichirō, admiral (b. 1854)
- April 12 – Takaki Kanehiro, naval physician (b. 1849)
- April 27 – Tadashi Satō, soldier and politician (b. 1849)[8]
- September 20 – Shō Ten, last Ryūkyū crown prince, member of the House of Peers (b. 1864)
- October 5 – Suematsu Kenchō, politician and author (b. 1855)
- October 6 – Kuroiwa Shūroku, journalist and writer (b. 1864)[9]
References
- ^ "Taishō | emperor of Japan". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- ^ "Takashi Hara: The commoner who lost his life leading Japan". Japan Times. 23 December 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2024.
- ^ Gutman, Anatoly. Ella Lury Wiswell (trans.); Richard A. Pierce (ed.) The Destruction of Nikolaevsk-on-Amur, An Episode in the Russian Civil War in the Far East, 1920. Limestone Press (1993). ISBN 0-919642-35-7
- ^ Najita, Tetsuo: Hara Kei in the Politics of Compromise 1905–1915. Harvard Univ. Press, 1967.
- ^ Sircana, Giuseppe. "FERRARIN, Arturo". Retrieved 15 December 2022.
- ^ Sasaki Harutaka (佐々木春隆): Kankoku dokuritsu undōshi jō no "Seizanri taisen" kō (韓国独立運動史上の「青山里大戦」考), Gunji shigaku (軍事史学), Vol.15 No. 3, pp. 22–34, 1979.
- ^ Vitello, Paul (September 22, 2014), "Yoshiko Yamaguchi, 94, Actress in Propaganda Films", The New York Times
- ^ "Chronological List of the Mayors of Hiroshima City" Hiroshima Municipality
- ^ "Kuriowa Ruikō". Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures (in Japanese). National Diet Library. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
