Tokyo in World War I

The atlas holds 5 people and 6 moments here, from 1914 to 1917. The most recorded lives are Sun Yat-sen, Yasunari Kawabata and Olivia de Havilland.

Notable people

  1. Joan Fontaine

    in 1917

    1 moment here

    British-American actress Joan de Beauvoir de Havilland, professionally Joan Fontaine, was an Academy Award-winning performer known especially for…

  2. Olivia de Havilland

    in 1916

    1 moment here

    Olivia de Havilland was a British-American-French actress whose career ranged from California community theatre and Warner Bros.…

  3. Soong Ching-ling

    in 1915

    1 moment here

    Chinese politician and activist, wife of Sun Yat-sen, leading figure of the Kuomintang’s left wing, and later a senior officeholder of the People’s…

  4. Sun Yat-sen

    from 1914 to 1915

    2 moments here

    Chinese physician, revolutionary, and political thinker who founded the Republic of China and the Kuomintang.…

  5. Yasunari Kawabata

    in 1917

    1 moment here

    Japanese novelist and short-story writer, Nobel laureate in Literature in 1968. His documented movements include an Osaka and Ibaraki childhood,…

Moments

  1. 1914 Chinese Revolutionary Party convention Sun Yat-sen
  2. 1915 Marriage to Sun Yat-sen Soong Ching-ling
  3. 1915 Marriage to Soong Ching-ling Sun Yat-sen
  4. 1916 Birth in Tokyo Olivia de Havilland
  5. 1917 Moved to Tokyo for First Higher School Yasunari Kawabata
  6. 1917 Birth in Tokyo Joan Fontaine

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