1903 in Japan
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Events in the year 1903 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 36 (明治36年) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
[edit]Governors
[edit]- 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
[edit]- March 1 – 1903 Japanese general election: The Rikken Seiyūkai party remained the largest in the House of Representatives, winning 175 of the 376 seats, but lost its majority.
- July 7 – Momijigari, the oldest extant Japanese film, premiers. It runs until August 1.[2]
- Unknown date – Kagome was founded, as predecessor name was Aichi Tomato Food Processing in Tokai, Aichi Prefecture.[page needed]
Births
[edit]- January 2 – Kane Tanaka, supercentenarian (oldest verified Japanese person and the second oldest verified person ever) (d. 2022)
- January 7 – Mori Mari, author (d. 1987)
- January 25 – Fumiko Kaneko, anarchist (d. 1926)[a]
- February 3 – Yasutarō Yagi, screenwriter (d. 1987)
- February 5 – Koto Matsudaira, diplomat (d. 1994)
- February 18 – Tokihiko Okada, silent film actor (d. 1934)
- March 6 – Empress Kōjun, empress consort of Emperor Hirohito (d. 2000)
- March 30 – Chiezō Kataoka, actor (d. 1983)
- April 11 - Misuzu Kaneko, poet (d. 1930)
- May 19 - Shimoe Akiyama, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2019)
- June 8 – Yukie Chiri, Ainu transcriber and translator (d. 1922)
- June 22 – Jiro Horikoshi, aircraft designer and engineer (d. 1982)
- August 3 – Roppa Furukawa, film actor (d. 1961)
- September 7 – Kensaku Shimaki, writer (d. 1945)
- October 1 – Yoshiyuki Tsuruta, Olympic swimmer (d. 1986)
- October 13 – Takiji Kobayashi, writer (d. 1933)
- November 3 – Shizue Shiono, film actor (d. 1962)[4]
- December 12 – Yasujirō Ozu, film director and screenwriter (d. 1963)
- December 31 – Fumiko Hayashi, writer (d. 1951)
Deaths
[edit]- February 18
- Prince Komatsu Akihito, Field Marshal, Chief of the General Staff (b. 1846)
- Onoe Kikugorō V, kabuki actor (b. 1844)
- April 28 – Saigō Tanomo, Shinto priest, martial artist and former Samurai (b. 1830)
- May 22 – Misao Fujimura, student and poet (b. 1886)
- June 29 – Rentarō Taki, pianist (b. 1879)
- August 27 – Kusumoto Ine, physician, first female doctor of Western medicine in Japan (b. 1827)
- September 13 – Ichikawa Danjūrō IX, kabuki actor (b. 1838)
- October 30 – Ozaki Kōyō, author (b. 1868)
Notes
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Meiji | emperor of Japan". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
- ^ Irie, Yoshiro (2009). "Saiko no Nihon eiga ni tsuite" (PDF). Tōkyō Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan Kenkyū Kiyō (in Japanese) (13). National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo: 67. ISSN 0914-7489. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 January 2013. Retrieved 9 December 2014.
- ^ Raddeker, Hélène Bowen (1997). Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan: Patriarchal Fictions, Patricidal Fantasies. London: Routledge. pp. 202–203. ISBN 9780415171120.
- ^ Kinema Junpōsha (1980). 日本映画俳優全集・女優編 [Complete Works of Japanese Film Actors and Actresses] (in Japanese). Tōkyō: Kinema Junpōsha. p. 424. OCLC 22823615.
