1905 in Japan
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Events in the year 1905 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 38 (ææ²»38å¹´) in the Japanese calendar.
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Incumbents
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 ShunzÅ
- 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 25â29: Battle of Sandepu
- February 20-March 10: Battle of Mukden
- April 1: JapanâKorea Agreement of April 1905
- May 27â28: Battle of Tsushima
- August 13: JapanâKorea Agreement of August 1905
- September 1: Kobe Steel has founded.[page needed]
- September 5: Treaty of Portsmouth signed, ending Russo-Japanese War
- November 17: JapanâKorea Treaty of 1905
- Wolves become extinct in Japan.
Births
- January 3 â Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu (d. 1987)
- January 5 â Tamako Kataoka, artist (d. 2008)
- January 14 â Takeo Fukuda, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1995)
- January 15 â Kamatari Fujiwara, actor (d. 1985)
- March 12 â Takashi Shimura, actor (d. 1982)
- April 1 â Asaichi Isobe, army officer (d. 1937)
- May 14 â Kunio Maekawa, architect (d. 1986)
- May 28 â Sada Abe, geisha and prostitute (d. 1970?)
- June 25 â Jun'ichi Yoda, poet (d. 1997)
- July 2 â TatsuzÅ Ishikawa, writer (d. 1985)
- July 25 â MasazÅ Nonaka, supercentenarian (d. 2019)
- August 20 â Mikio Naruse, filmmaker (d. 1969)
- October 2 â Fumiko Enchi, writer (d. 1986)
- October 3 â Taiko Hirabayashi, writer (d. 1972)
- November 15 â Tamiki Hara, writer (d. 1951)
Deaths
- January 31 â Soejima Taneomi, diplomat and statesman (b. 1828)
- April 13 â Taguchi Ukichi, historian and economist (b. 1855)