Year in Japan
1913 in Japanese History
3 recorded entries for this year. It falls in the Taishō period (大正時代, 1912 – 1926).
Era name: Taishō era 大正 (year 2 of the era)
What happened 出来事
- Hidemitsu Tanaka 田中英光 · Writer — Japanese novelist, Olympian (1913–1949)
- Nankichi Niimi 新美南吉 · Writer — Japanese writer (1913–1943)
- Sakunosuke Oda 織田作之助 · Writer — Japanese writer (1913–1947)
Reading the year 1913 in Japanese
Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1913 corresponds to Taishō era 大正 (year 2 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 1913年 (1913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.