1897 in Japan explained

Events from the year 1897 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 30 (明治30年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

• Emperor

Emperor Meiji^[1]

• Prime Minister

Matsukata Masayoshi

Governors

• Aichi Prefecture

Tokito Konkyo then Egi Kazuyuki

• Akita Prefecture: Saburo Iwao
• Aomori Prefecture: Naomasa Maki then Ichiro Konoshu
• Ehime Prefecture: Chang Masaya Komaki then Yutori Kojiro then Park Shin Maki Naomasa
• Fukui Prefecture: Kunizo Arakawa then Denzaburo Hatano then Shingo Seki
• Fukushima Prefecture: Akiyama then Kimumichi Nagusami
• Gifu Prefecture: Sukeo Kabayama then Yoshinori Yumoto
• Gunma Prefecture: Masataka Ishizata
• Hiroshima Prefecture

Orita Heinai then Asada Tokunori

• Ibaraki Prefecture

Egi Kazuyuki then Motohiro Onoda then Prince Kiyoshi Honba

• Iwate Prefecture: Ichizo Hattori
• Kagawa Prefecture: Tsunenori Tokuhisa
• Kochi Prefecture: Ishida Eikichi then Hiroshi Shikakui
• Kumamoto Prefecture

Kanetake Oura

• Kyoto Prefecture

• Mie Prefecture: Terumi Tanabe
• Miyagi Prefecture

• Miyazaki Prefecture: Senda Sadakatsuki
• Nagano Prefecture

Takasaki Chikaaki then Gondo Ka'nichi

• Niigata Prefecture

Asada Tokunori then Minoru Katsumata

• Oita Prefecture: Yasuhiko Hirayama then Shigetoo Sugimoto
• Okinawa Prefecture

Shigeru Narahara

• Osaka Prefecture

Utsumi Tadakatsu then Tokito Konkyo

• Saga Prefecture

Akira Oyama

• Saitama Prefecture

Tomi Senketaka

• Shiname Prefecture: Michio Sokabe then Hikoji Nakamura
• Tochigi Prefecture: Sato Nobu then Egi Kazuyuki then Sento Kiyoshi
• Tokyo

Marquis Michitsune Koga then Viscount Okabe Nagahon

• Toyama Prefecture: Ando Kinsuke then Tsurayuki Ishida
• Yamagata Prefecture: Shuichi Kinoshita then Kikuchi Karasu

Events

• January 17  - A first issue newspaper, Kahoku Shinpō was published in Miyagi Prefecture.
• May  - Opening of the Kyoto National Museum.
• June 1  - Opening of Matsugishi Station in Chōshi, Chiba.^[2]
• June 10  - Founding of the publishing company Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha.
• June 18  - establishment of Kyoto University under the name Kyoto Imperial University.

Births

• March 2  - Shizue Kato, politician and activist (d. 2001)
• March 28  - Yusuke Hagihara, astronomer (d. 1979)
• April 19  - Jiroemon Kimura, supercentenarian, oldest man ever, world's oldest living person from December 2012 to June 2013. (d. 2013)
• October 10  - Shigeji Tsuboi, poet (d. 1975)
• October 23  - Yae Ibuka, nurse (d. 1989)
• November 12  - Eddie Imazu, art director (d. 1979)
• November 17  - Kinichiro Sakaguchi, agricultural chemist and microbiologist (d. 1994)
• November 28  - Chiyo Uno, writer and author (d. 1996)
• December 8  - Prince Fushimi Hiroyoshi, naval officer (d. 1938; myocardial infarction)^[3]
• December 26  - Unno Juza, writer, founding father of Japanese science fiction (d. 1949)

Deaths

• August 24  - Mutsu Munemitsu, statesman and diplomat (b. 1844)
• November 29  - Mitsukuri Rinsho, statesman and legal scholar (born 1846)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Meiji emperor of Japan . Encyclopedia Britannica . 27 March 2019 . en.
2. Book: 日本国有鉄道停車場一覧 . JNR Station Directory . Japanese National Railways . 1985 . Japan . 145. 4-533-00503-9.
3. Fujitani,T. Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan. University of California Press; Reprint edition (1998).