1918 in Japan

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1917
1916
1915

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1890s
1900s
1910s
1920s
1930s

See also:

Other events of 1918
List of years in Japan

Events in the year 1918 in Japan.

Incumbents

Events

29 September - Hara Takashi becomes Prime Minister, the first commoner to be appointed to the office.^[1]
date unknown - Start of the French military mission to Japan (1918-1919)

Births

4 May - Kakuei Tanaka, 64th Prime Minister of Japan (died 1993)^[2]
27 May - Yasuhiro Nakasone, 45th Prime Minister of Japan^[3]
15 December - Chihiro Iwasaki, artist and illustrator (died 1974)

Deaths

30 September - Ōura Kanetake, politician (born 1850)
date unknown - Arakaki Seishō, Okinawan martial arts master (born 1840)

References

↑ Olson, L. A.: Hara Kei – A Political Biography. Ph.D.diss. Harvard University, 1954.
↑ The Economist, 28 March 2009 p. 67.
↑ "Japan’s Elder Statesman Is Silent No Longer" by Martin Fackler, The New York Times, 29 January 2010 (30 January 2010 p. A11).

Years in Japan (1868–present)

Meiji period (1868–1912)

1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912

Taishō period (1912–1926)

1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926

Shōwa period (1926–1989)

1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989

Heisei period (1989–present)

1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

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