Year in Japan

1912 in Japanese History

4 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Taishō period (大正時代, 1912 – 1926).

Era name: Taishō era 大正 (year 1 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Taishō era 大正 · Japanese era name — period of Japanese history from 1912 to 1926, under the reign of Emperor Taishō
Verda Majo 長谷川テル · Writer — Japanese pacifist, esperantist, feminist and antifascist (1912–1947)
Shunsuke Matsumoto 松本竣介 · Painter — Japanese painter (1912-1948)
Hirohide Fushimi 伏見博英 · Politician — member of a collateral branch of the Japanese imperial family (1912-1943)

Reading the year 1912 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1912 corresponds to Taishō era 大正 (year 1 of the era). Years are written with 年 (ねん, nen) — so 1600 appears as 慶長5年, "the fifth year of Keichō".

The year itself is read 1912年 (1912ねん) in modern Japanese. Browse the full timeline to see where this year sits in the wider arc, or the 20th century for its neighbours.