1918 in Japan
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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)
See also
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).
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