1907 in Japan

Events in the year 1907 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 40 (ææ²»40å¹´) in the Japanese calendar.

Decades:

Incumbents

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

January 1 â Kinue Hitomi, sprinter and long jumper (d. 1931)
January 8 â KeizÅ Hayashi, civil servant (d. 1991)
January 23 â Hideki Yukawa, theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1981)
February 25 â Utaemon Ichikawa, actor (d. 1999)
March 17 â Takeo Miki, 41st Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1988)
April 29 â ChÅ«ya Nakahara, poet (d. 1937)
May 6 â Yasushi Inoue, author (d. 1991)
June 29 â Junji Nishikawa, footballer
July 15 â ShÅshin Nagamine, karate master, author, soldier and police officer (d. 1997)
August 1 â Hisato Ohzawa, composer (d. 1953)
August 12 â Noriko Awaya, soprano chanson and ryÅ«kÅka singer (d. 1999)
October 1 â RyÅichi Hattori, composer (d. 1993)

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