1904 in Japan
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Events in the year 1904 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 37 (ææ²»37å¹´) in the Japanese calendar.
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Incumbents
Governors
- Aichi Prefecture: Masaaki Nomura
- Akita Prefecture: Ichiro Tsubaki then Oka Kishichiro Itami
- Aomori Prefecture: Ichiji Yamanouchi then Katsutaro Inuzuka then Shotaro Nishizawa
- Ehime Prefecture: Tai Neijro then Makoto Sugai then Kensuke Ando
- Fukui Prefecture: Suke Sakamoto
- Fukushima Prefecture: Arita Yoshisuke
- Gifu Prefecture: Kawaji Toshikyo
- Gunma Prefecture: Yoshimi Teru
- Hiroshima Prefecture: Tokuhisa Tsunenori then Yamada ShunzÅ
- Ibaraki Prefecture: Teru Terahara
- Iwate Prefecture: Ganri Hojo then Sokkichi Oshikawa
- Kagawa Prefecture: Motohiro Onoda
- Kochi Prefecture: Munakata Tadashi
- Kumamoto Prefecture: Egi Kazuyuki
- Kyoto Prefecture: Baron Shoichi Omori
- Mie Prefecture: Kamon Furusha then Lord Arimitsu Hideyoshi
- Miyagi Prefecture: Terumi Tanabe
- Miyazaki Prefecture: Toda Tsunetaro
- Nagano Prefecture: Seki Kiyohide
- Niigata Prefecture: Hiroshi Abe
- Oita Prefecture: Marques Okubo Toshi Takeshi then Shuichi Kinoshita then Ogura Hisashi
- Okinawa Prefecture: Shigeru Narahara
- Saga Prefecture: Seki Kiyohide
- Saitama Prefecture: Count Jissho Oogimachi then Marquis Okubo Toshi Takeshi
- Shiga Prefecture: Sada Suzuki
- Shiname Prefecture: Ihara Ko then Matsunaga Takeyoshi
- Tochigi Prefecture: Kubota Kiyochika
- Tokushima Prefecture: Saburo Iwao
- Tokyo: Baron Sangay Takatomi
- Toyama Prefecture: Rika Ryusuke
- Yamagata Prefecture: Tanaka Takamichi
- Yamanashi Prefecture: Takeda Chiyosaburo
Events
- February 8â9 â Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise Japanese naval attack on Port Arthur (Lüshun) in Manchuria starts the Russo-Japanese War.[2][3][4][5]
- February 9 â Battle of Chemulpo Bay[6][7][8]
- February 23 â JapanâKorea Treaty of February 1904[9]
- April 30âMay 1 â Battle of Yalu River (1904)[10][11][12][13][14]
- May 25â26 â Battle of Nanshan[15]
- June 14â15 â Battle of Te-li-Ssu[16]
- July 10 â Battle of Motien Pass
- July 24â25 â Battle of Tashihchiao
- July 31 â Battle of Hsimucheng
- August 10 â Battle of the Yellow Sea
- August 14 â Battle off Ulsan
- August 20 â Battle of Korsakov
- August 22 â JapanâKorea Agreement of August 1904
- August 24âSeptember 4 â Battle of Liaoyang
- October 5â17 â Battle of Shaho
- Unknown date â Hirano Rubber Manufacturing, as predecessor of Toyo Tire was founded.[page needed]
Births
- February 9 â Kikuko Kawakami, author (d. 1985)
- May 27 â ChÅ«hei Nambu, track and field athlete (d. 1997)
- June 1 â Ineko Sata, communist and feminist author of proletarian literature (d. 1998)[17]
- July 9 â Hideo Oguni, Japanese writer (d. 1996)[18]
- July 18 â Fuji Yahiro, screenwriter (d. 1986)[19]
- July 25 â Katsuji Matsumoto, illustrator (d. 1986)
- August 7 â Taro Takemi, physician and 11th President of the Japan Medical Association (d. 1983)
- August 16 â Minoru Genda, military aviator and politician (d. 1989)
- September 1 â Aya KÅda, essayist and novelist (d. 1990)[20]
- October 11 â Ken'ichi Enomoto, comedian and singer (d. 1970)
- November 18 â Masao Koga, composer (d. 1978)
- November 22 â Fumio Niwa, novelist (d. 2005)
- December 28 â Tatsuo Hori, writer, poet and translator (d. 1953)
Deaths
- January 1 â Konoe Atsumaro, politician and journalist (b. 1863)[21]
- January 9 â Ii Naonori, former daimyÅ, son of Ii Naosuke (b. 1848)
- February 6 â Utagawa Yoshiiku, artist (b. 1833)[22]
- March 27 â Takeo Hirose, navy career officer (b. 1868)[23][24]
- August 12 â Kawamura Sumiyoshi, admiral (b. 1836)
- August 31 â Tachibana ShÅ«ta, soldier (b. 1865)
- September 26 â Koizumi Yakumo, writer (b. 1850)