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Events in the year 1923 in Japan. It corresponds to Taishō 12 (大正12年) in the Japanese calendar.

• Emperor: Taishō

• Regent: Hirohito

• Prime Minister:

  • Katō Tomosaburō (until August 24)
  • Yamamoto Gonnohyōe (from September 2)

• Aichi Prefecture: Hikoji Kawaguchi (until 16 June); Masahiro Ota (starting 16 June)

• Akita Prefecture: Masao Kishimoto

• Aomori Prefecture: Yujiro Ozaki (until 25 October); Kazue Baba (starting 25 October)

• Ehime Prefecture: Juunosuke Miyazaki

• Fukui Prefecture: Josuke Shiraogawa

• Fukushima Prefecture: Iwata Mamoru (until 25 October); Kosaka Masayasu (starting 25 October)

• Gifu Prefecture: Manpei Ueda

• Gunma Prefecture: Yamaoka Kunitoshi

• Hiroshima Prefecture: Kamehiko Abe (until 25 October); Jiro Yamagata (starting 25 October)

• Ibaraki Prefecture: Genjiro Moriya (until 25 October); Shohei Fujinuma (starting 25 October)

• Iwate Prefecture: Ushidzuka Torataro

• Kagawa Prefecture: Shuji Sasaki (until 25 October); Nakagawa Kenzo (starting 25 October)

• Kanagawa Prefecture: Yasukouchi Asakichi

• Kochi Prefecture: Toyoji Obata (until 25 October); Fujioka Hyoichi (starting 25 October)

• Kumamoto Prefecture: Tadahiko Okada (until 12 October); Chisato Tanaka (starting 12 October)

• Kyoto Prefecture: Tokikazu Ikematsu

• Mie Prefecture: Saburo Shibata (until 25 October); Tago Ilman (starting 25 October)

• Miyagi Prefecture: Yuichiro Chikaraishi

• Miyazaki Prefecture: Muneyoshi Oshiba (until 25 October); Saito Munenori (starting 25 October)

• Nagano Prefecture: Toshio Honma

• Niigata Prefecture: Ota Masahiro (until 11 June); Ohara Sanarata (starting 11 June)

• Okayama Prefecture: Masao Kishimoto

• Okinawa Prefecture: Jyun Wada (until 25 October); Ki Iwamoto (starting 25 October)

• Saga Prefecture: Tominaga

• Saitama Prefecture: Horiuchi Hidetaro (until 25 October); Motoda Tashio (starting 25 October)'

• Shiga Prefecture: Kaiichiro Suematsu (starting month unknown)

• Shiname Prefecture: Sanehide Takarabe (until 25 October); Naganobu Ren (starting 25 October)

• Tochigi Prefecture: Haruki Yamawaki

• Tokyo: Katsuo Usami

• Toyama Prefecture: Kihachiro Ito

• Yamagata Prefecture: Agata Shinobu

Marunouchi in Tokyo in flames after the Great Kantō earthquake.

• April unknown date – Yamanouchi Pharmaceutical was founded, as predecessor part of Astellas Pharma.

• May 21–25 – 1923 Far Eastern Games held in Osaka.

• August 24 – Prime Minister Katō Tomosaburō dies in office.

• August 29 – Fuji Electric Manufacturing, later Fuji Electric was founded.

• September 1 – The Great Kantō earthquake devastates Tokyo and Yokohama, killing an estimated 142,807 people, but according to a Japanese construction research center report in 2005, 105,000 are confirmed dead. Varied accounts indicate the duration of the earthquake was between four and ten minutes.

• September 1-21 - Kantō Massacre: Young Japanese vigilante groups, driven by rumors of a Korean revolt, attack and murder thousands of Korean residents.

• September 2

  • Yamamoto Gonnohyōe is appointed Prime Minister of Japan.
  • Martial law declared in Tokyo districts

• September 3–5 – Kameido incident

• September 4 – The area of martial law is expanded to cover all of Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba, and Saitama prefectures.

• September 7 – A Curfew is issued in Tokyo.

• September 16 – Amakasu Incident: The feminist Noe Itō and her partner, the anarchist Sakae Ōsugi are beaten and killed by a police squadron led by Lieutenant Amakasu Masahiko, along with Ōsugi's six-year-old nephew, and their bodies disposed in a well. Following countrywide outcry, Amakasu was court-martialed and sentenced to 10 years in prison.

• December 27 – Toranomon Incident: An assassination attempt is made on the crown prince Hirohito in Tokyo by Daisuke Namba, but the attempt fails.

• Unknown date –Yamanouchi Pharmacy, as predecessor of Astellas was founded.

• February 17 – Jun Fukuda, film director (d. 2000)

• March 27 – Shūsaku Endō, writer (d. 1996)

• May 24 – Seijun Suzuki, filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter (d. 2017)

• June 4 – Yuriko, Princess Mikasa, wife of Prince Takahito (d. 2024)

• August 7 – Ryōtarō Shiba, writer (d. 1996)

• October 7 – Tomio Aoki, film actor (d. 2004)

• January 8 – Shimamura Hayao, Marine Admiral (b. 1858)

• February 3 – Kuroki Tamemoto general (b. 1844)

• February 4 – Prince Fushimi Sadanaru, Field Marshal (b. 1858)

• April 1 – Prince Naruhisa Kitashirakawa, military personnel (b. 1887)

• June 9

  • Takeo Arishima, novelist, writer and essayist (suicide) (b. 1878)
  • Akiko Hatano, journalist (suicide) (b. 1894)

• June 19 – Shō Shō, member of the House of Peers (b. 1888)

• August 24 – Katō Tomosaburō, Prime Minister of Japan (b. 1861)

• September 1 – Matsuoka Yasukowa, politician and cabinet minister (B. 1846)

• September 2 – Kuriyagawa Hakuson, literary critic (b. 1880)

• September 16

  • Noe Itō, anarchist, social critic and author (b. 1895)
  • Sakae Ōsugi, anarchist (b. 1885)

• November 8 – Fusakichi Omori, seismologist (b. 1868)

• November 26 – Otani Kikuzo, general (b. 1856)

• December 29 – Kōno Hironaka, politician (b. 1849)

• List of Japanese films of the 1920s