1890 in Japan explained

Events in the year 1890 in Japan.

Incumbents

Baron Takatoshi Iwamura then Kojiro Iwasaki

- Akita Prefecture: Kojiro Iwasaki then Baron Akira Suzuki Aomori Prefecture: Masa Sawa
Ehime Prefecture: Katsumata Minoru
- Fukui Prefecture: Toshitsuna Adashi Fukuoka Prefecture: Yasujo
- Fukushima Prefecture: Nobumichi Yamada Gifu Prefecture: Toshi Kozaki
- Gunma Prefecture: Sato Atasesan Hiroshima Prefecture

- - Iwate Prefecture: Shoichiro Ishii Kagawa Prefecture: Yawara Shibahara Kochi Prefecture: Baron Hiroi Hirotake
Kumamoto Prefecture

Baron Kokudo Kitagaki

Kanji Maruoka

Sutezo Nishimura

Sukeo Kabayama

Marquis Shigeru Hachisuke then Tomita Tetsunosuke

- Toyama Prefecture: Fujishima Masaki then Fujishima Masaki Yamagata Prefecture: Hasebe Ren

February unknown date - Kubota founded in Nishi-ku, Osaka.
July 1 - 1890 Japanese general election; Empire of Japan’s first general election for members of the House of Representatives of the Diet of Japan. It was the first example of a popularly elected national assembly in Asia ^[2]
November 25 - The first Diet session is held.
Unknown date - Ōshita Kaishunō, as predecessor of Fumakillar, an insecticide manufacturing and sales brand, founded in Hiroshima.

January 15 - Michiaki Kamada, admiral (d. 1947)
January 28 - Fusako, Princess Kane, seventh daughter of Emperor Meiji (d. 1974)
September 30 - Chieko Higashiyama, film actress (d. 1980)
November 3 - Yamakawa Kikue, activist, writer, socialist, and feminist (d. 1980)