1899 in Japan explained
Events in the year 1899 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 32 (明治32年) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
Emperor Meiji[1]
Yamagata Aritomo
Governors
Mori Mamoru
- Akita Prefecture: Takeda Chiyosaburo
- Aomori Prefecture: Munakata Tadashi Ehime Prefecture: Tai Neijro
- Fukui Prefecture: Saburo Iwao Fukushima Prefecture: Kimumichi Nagusami then Arita Yoshisuke
- Gifu Prefecture: Tanaka Takamichi then Kawaji Toshikyo
Asada Tokunori
- Iwate Prefecture: Ganri Hojo Kagawa Prefecture: Yoshihara Saburo Kochi Prefecture: Tadashi Tanigawa Kumamoto Prefecture
Baron Utsumi Tadakatsu then Baron Shoichi Omori
- Mie Prefecture: Yuji Rika then Duke Isaburo Yamagata then Arakawa Yoshitaro
- Miyagi Prefecture
Shigeru Narahara
Tadashini Kikuchi
Marquis Okubo Toshi Takeshi
- Shiname Prefecture: Matsunaga Takeyoshi
Baron Sangay Takatomi
- Toyama Prefecture: Kaneoryo Gen
- Yamagata Prefecture: Baron Seki Yoshiomi
Events
Births
- January 20 - Kenjiro Takayanagi, television engineer, creator of the world's first all-electronic television receiver (d. 1990)
- February 10 - Suihō Tagawa, manga artist (d. 1989)
- February 13 - Yuriko Miyamoto, novelist (d. 1951)
- March 7 - Jun Ishikawa, writer (d. 1987)
- June 11 - Yasunari Kawabata, writer, novelist, Nobel laureate in Literature (d. 1972)
- August 1 - Saburō Matsukata, journalist, businessman and mountaineer (d. 1973)
- August 5 - Sakae Tsuboi, novelist and poet (d. 1967)
- September 8 - Akiko Seki, soprano (d. 1973)
- October 1 - Matsutarō Kawaguchi, novelist, playwright and film producer (d. 1985)
- November 7 - Daisuke Nanba, communist activist (d. 1924)
- December 3 - Hayato Ikeda, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1965)
- Unknown - Genkei Masamune, botanist, (d. 1993)
Deaths
Notes and References
- Web site: Meiji emperor of Japan . Encyclopedia Britannica . 27 March 2019 . en.
- Irie. Yoshiro. Saiko no Nihon eiga ni tsuite. Tōkyō Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan Kenkyū Kiyō. 2009. 13. 67. 9 December 2014. National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo. ja. 0914-7489. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130119181900/http://www.momat.go.jp/research/kiyo/13/pp65_91.pdf. 19 January 2013.