1905 in Japan explained

Events in the year 1905 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 38 (明治38年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

• Emperor

Emperor Meiji^[1]

• Prime Minister

Katsura Tarō

Governors

• Aichi Prefecture

Masaaki Nomura

• Akita Prefecture: Oka Kishichiro Itami then Takejiro Yukaji
• Aomori Prefecture: Shotaro Nishizawa
• Ehime Prefecture: Kensuke Ando
• Fukui Prefecture: Suke Sakamoto
• Fukushima Prefecture: Arita Yoshisuke
  • Gifu Prefecture: Kawaji Toshikyo Gunma Prefecture: Yoshimi Teru
• Hiroshima Prefecture

Yamada Shunzō

• Ibaraki Prefecture

Teru Terahara

• Iwate Prefecture: Sokkichi Oshikawa
• Kagawa Prefecture: Motohiro Onoda
• Kochi Prefecture: Munakata Tadashi
• Kumamoto Prefecture

Egi Kazuyuki

• Kyoto Prefecture

Baron Shoichi Omori

• Mie Prefecture: Lord Arimitsu Hideyoshi
• Miyagi Prefecture

Kamei Ezaburo

• • Miyazaki Prefecture: Toda Tsunetaro Nagano Prefecture

Seki Kiyohide then Akira Oyama

• Niigata Prefecture

Hiroshi Abe

• Oita Prefecture: Ogura Hisashi
• Okinawa Prefecture

Shigeru Narahara

• Saga Prefecture

Fai Kagawa

• Saitama Prefecture

Marquis Okubo Toshi Takeshi

• Shiga Prefecture

Sada Suzuki

• Shiname Prefecture: Matsunaga Takeyoshi
  • Tochigi Prefecture: Kubota Kiyochika Tokushima Prefecture: Saburo Iwao
• Tokyo

Baron Sangay Takatomi

• Toyama Prefecture: Rika Ryusuke then Shinhare Kawakami
  • Yamagata Prefecture: Tanaka Takamichi Yamanashi Prefecture: Takeda Chiyosaburo

Events

• January 2: The Russian Army surrenders at Port Arthur in China.
• January 25–29: Battle of Sandepu
• February 20-March 10: Battle of Mukden
• April 1: Japan–Korea Agreement of April 1905
• May 27–28: Battle of Tsushima
• August 13: Japan–Korea Agreement of August 1905
• September 1: Kobe Steel has founded.
• September 5: Treaty of Portsmouth signed, ending Russo-Japanese War
  • Hibiya Incendiary Incident
• November 17: Japan–Korea Treaty of 1905

Births

• January 3  - Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu (d. 1987)
• January 5  - Tamako Kataoka, artist (d. 2008)
• January 14  - Takeo Fukuda, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1995)
• January 15  - Kamatari Fujiwara, actor (d. 1985)
• March 12  - Takashi Shimura, actor (d. 1982)
• April 1  - Asaichi Isobe, army officer (d. 1937)
• May 14  - Kunio Maekawa, architect (d. 1986)
• May 28  - Sada Abe, geisha and prostitute (d. 1970?)
• July 2  - Tatsuzō Ishikawa, writer (d. 1985)
• August 20  - Mikio Naruse, filmmaker (d. 1969)
• October 2  - Fumiko Enchi, writer (d. 1986)
• October 3  - Taiko Hirabayashi, writer (d. 1972)
• November 15  - Tamiki Hara, writer (d. 1951)

Deaths

• January 31  - Soejima Taneomi, diplomat and statesman (b. 1828)
• April 13  - Taguchi Ukichi, historian and economist (b. 1855)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Meiji emperor of Japan . Encyclopedia Britannica . 27 March 2019 . en.