Year in Japan

1914 in Japanese History

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

Era name: Taishō era 大正 (year 3 of the era)

What happened 出来事

Michizō Tachihara 立原道造 · Writer — Japanese poet (1914-1939)
Hōjō Tamio 北条民雄 · Writer — Japanese novelist

Reading the year 1914 in Japanese

Japanese sources from this period date events by era name, not by the Western calendar. 1914 corresponds to Taishō era 大正 (year 3 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 1914年 (1914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.