January: A Japan Antarctic Expedition group led by Mr. Shirase gave up reaching south pole.
February: Arizona became 48th state of America.
March: The Ozaki Yukio who is chief of Tokyo sent three thousands of cherry blossoms to Washington D.C.
April: The Titanic sank on her first voyage.
May: Stockholm in Sweden hosted the Summer Olympic and this was the first Olympic for Japan.
June: Mt. Katmai erupted, and its power was one of the biggest volcanos.
July: Emperor Meiji passed away. His death marked the end of the Meiji era and the start of Taisho era.
August: The 1st taxi company in Japan was established.
September: 661 people died by one of the biggest typhoons named 1st typhoon in Taisho era. It made much damages especially to areas along the Sea of Japan and Hokkaido.
October: The 1st Balkan War broke out in 1912 and ended in 1913. It was War between Ottoman and Balkan who consist of Greece, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Serbia.
November: The Japanese government officially established the Imperial Guards Division, an elite military unit responsible for protecting the Emperor and the imperial family.
December: The 1st police dog started the job. The explosion in the coal mine in Yubari, Hokkaido took 216 lives though the explosion in same coal mine took 276 lives last April.
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