1903 in Japan
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Events in the year 1903 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 36 (ææ²»36å¹´) in the Japanese calendar.
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Incumbents
Governors
- Aichi Prefecture: Masaaki Nomura
- Akita Prefecture: Shiba Sankarasu then Ichiro Tsubaki
- Aomori Prefecture: Ichiji Yamanouchi then Katsutaro Inuzuka then Shotaro Nishizawa
- Ehime Prefecture: Tai Neijro
- Fukui Prefecture: Suke Sakamoto
- Fukushima Prefecture: Arita Yoshisuke
- Gifu Prefecture: Kawaji Toshikyo
- Gunma Prefecture: Yoshimi Teru
- Hiroshima Prefecture: Asada Tokunori then Tokuhisa Tsunenori
- Ibaraki Prefecture: Chuzo Kono then Teru Terahara
- Iwate Prefecture: Ganri Hojo
- Kagawa Prefecture: Motohiro Onoda
- Kochi Prefecture: Kinyuu Watanabe then Munakata Tadashi
- Kumamoto Prefecture: Egi Kazuyuki
- Kyoto Prefecture: Baron Shoichi Omori
- Mie Prefecture: Kamon Furusha
- Miyagi Prefecture: Terumi Tanabe
- Miyazaki Prefecture: Toda Tsunetaro
- Nagano Prefecture: Seki Kiyohide
- Niigata Prefecture: Hiroshi Abe
- Oita Prefecture: Marques Okubo Toshi Takeshi
- Okinawa Prefecture: Shigeru Narahara
- Saga Prefecture: Fai Kagawa
- Saitama Prefecture: Marquis Okubo Toshi Takeshi
- Shiga Prefecture: Sada Suzuki
- Shiname Prefecture: Ryogen Kaneo then Matsunaga Takeyoshi
- Tochigi Prefecture: Sugai Makoto
- Tokushima Prefecture: Saburo Iwao
- Tokyo: Baron Sangay Takatomi
- Toyama Prefecture: Rika Ryusuke
- Yamagata Prefecture: Tanaka Takamichi
- Yamanashi Prefecture: Takeda Chiyosaburo
Events
- March 1 â 1903 Japanese general election: The Rikken SeiyÅ«kai party remained the largest in the House of Representatives, winning 175 of the 376 seats, but lost its majority.
- July 7 â Momijigari, the oldest extant Japanese film, premiers. It runs until August 1.[2]
- Unknown date â Kagome was founded, as predecessor name was Aichi Tomato Food Processing in Tokai, Aichi Prefecture.[page needed]
Births
- January 2 â Kane Tanaka, supercentenarian (oldest verified Japanese person and the second oldest verified person ever) (d. 2022)
- January 7 â Mori Mari, author (d. 1987)
- January 25 â Fumiko Kaneko, anarchist (d. 1926)[a]
- February 3 â YasutarÅ Yagi, screenwriter (d. 1987)
- February 5 â Koto Matsudaira, diplomat (d. 1994)
- February 18 â Tokihiko Okada, silent film actor (d. 1934)
- March 6 â Empress KÅjun, empress consort of Emperor Hirohito (d. 2000)
- March 30 â ChiezÅ Kataoka, actor (d. 1983)
- April 11 - Misuzu Kaneko, poet (d. 1930)
- May 19 - Shimoe Akiyama, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2019)
- June 8 â Yukie Chiri, Ainu transcriber and translator (d. 1922)
- June 22 â Jiro Horikoshi, aircraft designer and engineer (d. 1982)
- August 3 â Roppa Furukawa, film actor (d. 1961)
- September 7 â Kensaku Shimaki, writer (d. 1945)
- September 28 â Tateo KatÅ, fighter ace (d. 1942)[4]
- October 1 â Yoshiyuki Tsuruta, Olympic swimmer (d. 1986)
- October 13 â Takiji Kobayashi, writer (d. 1933)
- November 3 â Shizue Shiono, film actor (d. 1962)[5]
- December 12 â YasujirÅ Ozu, film director and screenwriter (d. 1963)
- December 31 â Fumiko Hayashi, writer (d. 1951)
Deaths
- February 18
- Prince Komatsu Akihito, Field Marshal, Chief of the General Staff (b. 1846)
- Onoe KikugorÅ V, kabuki actor (b. 1844)
- April 28 â SaigÅ Tanomo, Shinto priest, martial artist and former Samurai (b. 1830)
- May 22 â Misao Fujimura, student and poet (b. 1886)
- June 29 â RentarÅ Taki, pianist (b. 1879)
- August 27 â Kusumoto Ine, physician, first female doctor of Western medicine in Japan (b. 1827)
- September 13 â Ichikawa DanjÅ«rÅ IX, kabuki actor (b. 1838)
- October 30 â Ozaki KÅyÅ, author (b. 1868)