1907 in Japan
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Events in the year 1907 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 40 (ææ²»40å¹´) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
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: Yamada ShunzÅ, Tadashi Munakata
- Ibaraki Prefecture: Otsuka, Mori Masataka
- Iwate Prefecture: Sokkichi Oshikawa, Shinichi Kasai
- Kagawa Prefecture: Motohiro Onoda
- Kumamoto Prefecture: Egi Kazuyuki, Norikichi Oshikawa
- KÅchi Prefecture: Munakata Tadashi, Sada Suzuki
- Kyoto Prefecture: Shoichi Omori
- Mie Prefecture: Baron Shoichi Omori
- Miyagi Prefecture: Kamei Ezaburo
- Miyazaki Prefecture: Nagai Enjin
- Nagano Prefecture: Tsunamasa Åyama
- 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 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]
Births
- 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)
Deaths
- 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)
