Events from the year 1917 in Taiwan,

Empire of Japan The Empire of Japan, also known as the Japanese Empire or Imperial Japan, was the Japanese nation state that existed from the Meiji Restoration on January 3, 1868, until the Constitution of Japan took effect on May 3, 1947. From Japan–Kor ...

Incumbents

Monarchy

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: Taisho

Central government of Japan

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Terauchi Masatake '' Gensui'' Count Terauchi Masatake (), GCB (5 February 1852 – 3 November 1919), was a Japanese military officer and politician. He was a '' Gensui'' (or Marshal) in the Imperial Japanese Army and the prime minister of Japan from 1916 to 191 ...

Taiwan

Governor-General Governor-general (plural governors-general), or governor general (plural governors general), is the title of an official, most prominently associated with the British Empire. In the context of the governors-general and former British colonies, ...

Andō Teibi Baron , also known as Teibi Andō, was a general in the Imperial Japanese Army and 6th Governor-General of Taiwan from 30 April 1915 to 6 June 1918. Biography Andō was a native of Iida city in Shinano Province (present-day Nagano Prefecture). ...

Events

* 5 January – The deadliest part of the 1916–1917 Nantou earthquakes occurred, registering at 6.2 on the Richter scale with a shallow hypocentre, killing 54 people. * 12 February – Reverend William Campbell returns to China. * 24 July – Construction of the Yilan line began. * 22 October –

Prince Naruhisa Kitashirakawa , was the 3rd head of a collateral branch of the Japanese Imperial Family and the husband of Fusako, Princess Kane, daughter of Emperor Meiji and Concubine Sono Sachiko. Early life Prince Naruhisa was the son of Prince Yoshihisa Kitashiraka ...

and his wife Fusako visited Taiwan. * 29 December — The

Waseda University Waseda University (Japanese: ), abbreviated as or , is a private university, private research university in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Founded in 1882 as the Tōkyō Professional School by Ōkuma Shigenobu, the fifth Prime Minister of Japan, prime ministe ...

baseball team came to Taiwan.

Births

* 6 January –

Koo Chen-fu Koo Chen-fu (, 6 January 1917 – 3 January 2005), also known as C.F. Koo, was a Taiwanese businessman, diplomat, and film producer. He led the Koos Group of companies from 1940 until his death. As a chairman of the Straits Exchange Foundation (S ...

, businessman, diplomat, and film producer. * 18 January –

Wang Yung-ching Wang Yung-ching (; 18 January 1917 – 15 October 2008), also called YC Wang, was a Taiwanese businessman. He was best known for being the chairman of Formosa Plastics Corporation, one of Taiwan's foremost plastic manufacturing establishments ...

, businessman. * 10 February – Chen Ta-ju, lyricist. Cited in: and

References

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