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