1904 in Japan explained

Events in the year 1904 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 37 (明治37年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

Emperor Meiji[1]

Katsura Tarō

Governors

Masaaki Nomura

Tokuhisa Tsunenori then Yamada Shunzō

Teru Terahara

Egi Kazuyuki

Baron Shoichi Omori

Terumi Tanabe

Hiroshi Abe

Shigeru Narahara

Seki Kiyohide

Count Jissho Oogimachi then Marquis Okubo Toshi Takeshi

Sada Suzuki

Baron Sangay Takatomi

Events

Births

Deaths

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Meiji emperor of Japan . Encyclopedia Britannica . 27 March 2019 . en.
  2. News: JAPANESE TORPEDO BOATS FIGHT RUSSIANS AT PORT ARTHUR BALTIMORE BUSINESS DISTRICT WHOLLY WRECKED BY FLAMES MERCHANT SHIPS TAKEN BY MEN-OF-WAR OF THE MIKADO'S GOVERNMENT . XXXI . 133 . 9 February 1904 . Page 1, columns 1-3 . . 11 January 2022 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  3. News: 1904 Arlington Journal . . 23 . 29 December 2021 .
  4. Book: Tyler, Sydney . The Japan-Russia War: An Illustrated History of the War in the Far East, the Greatest Conflict of Modern Times . 54-61 . . P. W. Ziegler Co. . 1905 . 26 December 2021 . Internet Archive.
  5. News: Port Arthur Was 'the Pearl Harbor of 1904': While Officers and Men of Russian Fleet Were Attending a Reception the Japanese Navy Slipped Into Harbor and Attacked Czar's Ships Two Days Before Declaring War . https://web.archive.org/web/20160515202140/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19420119&id=-e4ZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8SIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4412,1516787 . 15 May 2016 . Butcher . Clifford F. . . 19 January 1942 . 8 . 25 December 2021 . Google News and Internet Archive.
  6. News: SAVAGE ATTACKS BY JAPAN COST RUSSIA SEVEN SHIPS CRUISERS CAUGHT IN CHEMULPO HARBOR AND DESTROYED STORY OF THE RUSSIANS' DEFEAT . XXXI . 134 . 10 February 1904 . Page 1, columns 1-7 . Los Angeles Herald . 11 January 2022 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  7. News: RUSSIAN VESSELS ARE DESTROYED AT CHEMULPO . XXXI . 134 . 10 February 1904 . Page 1, columns 1-2 . Los Angeles Herald . 11 January 2022 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  8. Tyler, pp. 61-65.
  9. Book: Korea's Appeal to the Conference on Limitation of Armament . . . 1922 . 34 . 26 December 2021 . Google Books.
  10. News: PITCHED BATTLE RAGING ON YALU Japanese Main Army in Russian Territory Has Skirmished Five Days and Will Strike Enemy Today . XXXI . 215 . 1 May 1904 . Page 1, columns 2-3; page 2, columns 1-2 . Los Angeles Herald . 23 February 2022 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  11. News: CONTINUOUS FIGHTING ON YALU RIVER Japanese Attack the Russian Position. Slavs Confine Their Efforts to Harassing Enemy's Advance. Mikado's Troops Are Pouring Across the Stream in the Face of a Heavy Fire. . XCV . 153 . 1 May 1904 . Page 25, column 4; page 26, column 4 . . 1 March 2022 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  12. News: JAPANESE CAPTURE RUSSIAN INTRENCHMENTS AFTER DESPERATE FIGHTING ON YALU'S BANKS . XCV . 154 . 2 May 1904 . Page 1, columns 1-7; page 2, columns 3-4 . . 17 March 2022 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  13. Garner . J. W. . Record of Political Events. . . 19 . 4 . . December 1904 . 717–48 . 10.2307/2140340 . 2140340 . 24 March 2022 . JSTOR.
  14. Tyler, pp. 177-196.
  15. Tyler, pp. 240-246.
  16. News: 1000 RUSSIANS SLAIN IN FURIOUS BATTLE NEAR PORT ARTHUR Slavs, Leaving Guns, Retreat in Disorder RUSSIANS IN FULL FLIGHT Naval Battle Rages in the Strait of Korea JAP TRANSPORTS REPORTED SUNK . XXXI . 261 . 16 June 1904 . Page 3, columns 1-7 . Los Angeles Herald . 25 December 2022 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  17. News: Obituary: Ineko Sata . Kirkup . James . James Kirkup . . Culture . 29 October 1998 . 30 July 2022.
  18. Web site: 八尋不二(読み)やひろ ふじ . Fuji Yahiro . . DIGITALIO, Inc. . ja . 23 January 2023.
  19. Book: Sherif, Ann . Mirror: The Fiction and Essays of Kōda Aya . . 1999 . 9780824821814.
  20. Web site: Konoe, Atsumaro (1863 - 1904) . Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures . . 2013 . en . 21 December 2021.
  21. Web site: Yoshiiku Utagawa . artelino . 27 December 2021.
  22. News: TOGO LAUDS TWO HEROES OF HIS FLEET Recounts the Bravery of Men Killed in Action at Port Arthur. Commander Hirose Struck by a Shell While Leaving Sinking Vessel. Movement Is Instituted to Erect a Monument to His Memory. . 95 . 122 . 31 March 1904 . Page 5, column 2 . San Francisco Call . 10 February 2022 . California Digital Newspaper Collection.
  23. Web site: HIROSE, Takeo . The Russo-Japanese War Research Society . 2002 . russojapanesewar.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20061031113825/http://www.russojapanesewar.com/hirose.html . 31 October 2006 . 19 January 2022.