1907 in Japan explained

Events in the year 1907 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 40 (明治40年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

• Emperor

Emperor Meiji^[1]

• Prime Minister

Saionji Kinmochi^[2]

Governors

• Aichi Prefecture

Ichizo Fukano

• Akita Prefecture: Chuji Shimooka
• Aomori Prefecture: Shotaro Nishizawa
• Ehime Prefecture: Kensuke Ando
• Fukui Prefecture: Suke Sakamoto, Nakamura Junkuro
• Fukushima Prefecture: Arita Yoshisuke then Hiraoka Teitaro
• Gifu Prefecture: Sadakichi Usu
• Gunma Prefecture: Yoshimi Teru, Arita Yoshisuke
• Hiroshima Prefecture

• Ibaraki Prefecture

Otsuka, Mori Masataka

• Iwate Prefecture: Sokkichi Oshikawa, Shinichi Kasai
  • Kagawa Prefecture: Motohiro Onoda Kumamoto Prefecture

Egi Kazuyuki, Norikichi Oshikawa

• Kōchi Prefecture: Munakata Tadashi, Sada Suzuki
• Kyoto Prefecture

Shoichi Omori

• Mie Prefecture: Baron Shoichi Omori
• Miyagi Prefecture

Kamei Ezaburo

• Miyazaki Prefecture: Nagai Enjin
• Nagano Prefecture

• Niigata Prefecture

Hiroshi Abe, Kiyoshi Honba

• Okayama Prefecture

Terada Yushi

• Okinawa Prefecture

Narahara Shigeru

• Osaka Prefecture

Chikaaki Takasaki

• Saga Prefecture

Fai Kagawa

• Saitama Prefecture

Marquis Okubo, Toshi Takeshi, Shimada Gotaro

• Shiga Prefecture

Sada Suzuki

• Shimane Prefecture: Matsunaga Takeyoshi
• Tochigi Prefecture: .....
• Tokyo

Baron Senge Takatomi

• Toyama Prefecture: Usami Katsuo
• Yamagata Prefecture: Mabuchi Eitaro

Events

• February 5  - Nisshin Spinning, later Nisshinbo founded.
• February 15  - Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907
• May Unknown date
  • Maruzen Petroleum, as predecessor of Cosmo Petroleum was founded in Osaka.
  • Seasoning, food processing, medication brand, Ajinomoto was founded by Saburosuke Suzuki in Kyobashi, Tokyo, as predecessor name was Suzuki Pharmaceutical Manufacturing.
• May 11  - Hinode Life Insurance, later Sumitomo Life Insurance was founded.
• June 10  - Franco-Japanese Treaty of 1907
• July 24  - Japan–Korea Treaty of 1907
• September 7  - Asahi Grass (now AGC) founded in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture.

Births

• January 1  - Kinue Hitomi, sprinter and long jumper (d. 1931)
• January 8  - Keizō Hayashi, civil servant (d. 1991)
• January 23  - Hideki Yukawa, theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1981)
• February 25  - Utaemon Ichikawa, actor (d. 1999)
• March 17  - Takeo Miki, 41st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1988)
• April 29  - Chūya Nakahara, poet (d. 1937)
• May 6  - Yasushi Inoue, author (d. 1991)
• August 1  - Hisato Ohzawa, composer (d. 1953)
• August 12  - Noriko Awaya, soprano chanson and ryūkōka singer (d. 1999)
• October 1  - Ryōichi Hattori, composer (d. 1993)

Deaths

• March 12  - Matsumoto Jun, physician (b. 1832)
• September 2  - Kuga Katsunan, journalist (b. 1857)
• October 5  - Nakayama Yoshiko, lady-in-waiting, mother of Emperor Meiji (b. 1836)
• December 16  - Asai Chū, painter (b. 1856)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Meiji - emperor of Japan. Encyclopedia Britannica. 13 May 2018. en.
2. Web site: Saionji Kimmochi - prime minister of Japan. Encyclopedia Britannica. 13 May 2018. en.