1913 in Japan

Events in the year 1913 in Japan. It corresponds to Taishō 2 (大正2年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

 * Emperor: Emperor Taishō
 * Prime Minister:
 * Katsura Tarō (until February 20)
 * Yamamoto Gonnohyōe (starting February 20)

Governors

 * Aichi Prefecture: Kenzo Ishihara (until 13 March); Matsui Shigeru (starting 13 March)
 * Akita Prefecture: Toyosuke Haneda
 * Aomori Prefecture: Takeda Chiyosaburo (until 1 June); Takeo Tanaka (starting 1 June)
 * Ehime Prefecture: Renarto Fukamachi
 * Fukui Prefecture: Tokiwa Ikematsu (until 1 June); Teru Kagawa (starting 1 June)
 * Fukushima Prefecture: Hiromichi Nishikubo (until 1 June); Ota Masahiro (starting 1 June)
 * Gifu Prefecture: Sadakichi Usu (until 1 June); Shimada Gotaro (starting 1 June)
 * Gunma Prefecture: Yasuyoshi Kurogane (until 1 June); Muneyoshi Oshiba (starting 1 June)
 * Hiroshima Prefecture: Nakamura Junkuro (until 27 February); Terada Yushi (starting 27 February)
 * Ibaraki Prefecture: Keisuke Sakanaka
 * Iwate Prefecture: Shinichi Kasai (until 3 March); Sadajiro Tsutsumi (starting 3 March)
 * Kagawa Prefecture: Kogoro Kanokogi
 * Kumamoto Prefecture: Ueyama Mitsunoshin (until 31 May); Akahoshi Futoshi (starting 31 May)
 * Kochi Prefecture: Goro Sugiyama (until 1 June); Kinjiro Nagai (starting 1 June)
 * Kyoto Prefecture: Shoichi Omori
 * Mie Prefecture: Magoichi Tahara
 * Miyagi Prefecture: Terada Yushi (until 27 February); Mori Masataka (starting 27 February)
 * Miyazaki Prefecture: Tadakazu Ariyoshi
 * Nagano Prefecture: Teikan Chiba (until 3 April); Ichiro Yoda (starting 3 April)
 * Nara Prefecture: Raizo Wakabayashi (until month unknown)
 * Niigata Prefecture: Izawa Takio (until 8 September); Ando Kensuke (starting 8 September)
 * Okayama Prefecture: Tsunamasa Ōyama (until month unknown)
 * Okinawa Prefecture: Hibi Shigeaki (until 1 June); Takuya Takahashi (starting 1 June)
 * Osaka Prefecture: Marques Okubo Toshi Takeshi
 * Saga Prefecture: Fuwa
 * Saitama Prefecture: Shimada Gotaro (until 1 June); Soeda Keiichiro (starting 1 June)
 * Shiname Prefecture: Takaoka Naokichi
 * Tochigi Prefecture: Okada Bunji
 * Tokyo: Munakata Tadash
 * Tottori Prefecture: Oka Kishichiro Itami (until month unknown)
 * Toyama Prefecture: Tsunenosuke Hamada
 * Yamagata Prefecture: Iwataro Odakiri

Events

 * January 21 – The first French private school opens in Tokyo. Later graduates include Sakaguchi Ango, Tanizaki Junichiro and Takehisa Yumeji.

Births

 * January 12 – Yoshi Katō, actor (d. 1988)
 * February 9 – Haruyo Ichikawa, film actress (d. 2004)
 * February 11 – Masaji Kiyokawa, backstroke swimmer (d. 1999)
 * March 7 – Masako Katsura, billiards player (d. 1995)
 * March 28 – Toko Shinoda, painter (d. 2021)
 * April 12 – Keiko Fukuda, martial artist (d. 2013)
 * May 14 – Masaji Iguro, ski jumper (d. 2000)
 * June 24 – Takeshi Nagata, earth scientist, (d. 1991)
 * July 4 – Princess Ayako Takeda (d. 2003)
 * September 4 – Kenzō Tange, architect (d. 2005)
 * September 12 – Eiji Toyoda, industrialist (d. 2013)
 * October 21 – Princess Sawako Kitashirakawa, daughter of Prince Naruhisa Kitashirakawa (d. 2001)
 * October 26 – Sakunosuke Oda, writer (d. 1947)
 * November 5 – Seiji Miyaguchi, actor (d. 1985)
 * December 15 – Masayoshi Ito, politician (d. 1994)

Deaths

 * January 20 – Nakane Kōtei, writer (b. 1839)
 * June 23 – Ogino Ginko, first licensed female physician of western medicine in Japan (b. 1851)
 * July 5 – Prince Arisugawa Takehito, Marshal Admiral (b. 1862)
 * July 10 – Hayashi Tadasu, diplomat and cabinet minister (b. 1850)
 * July 30 – Itō Sachio, writer and poet (b. 1864)
 * September 2 – Okakura Kakuzō, scholar (b. 1862)
 * September 4 – Shōzō Tanaka, social activist (b. 1841)
 * October 10 – Katsura Tarō, general and Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1848)
 * November 22 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu, 15th and last Tokugawa shogunate (b. 1837)
 * Ichikawa Kumehachi, kabuki actress (b. 1846)