1904 in Japan

none 1904 Japan Template:Year in Japan: Flag of Japan (1870–1999).svg 80px Other events of 1904 History of Japan Timeline Years Events in the year 1904 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 37 (明治37年) in the Japanese calendar. Incumbents Emperor: Emperor MeijiMeiji emperor of Japan https://www.britannica.com/biography/Meiji Encyclopedia Britannica 27 March 2019 en Prime Minister: Katsura Tarō 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 Shunzō 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 8–9 – Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise Japanese naval attack on Port Arthur (Lüshun) in Manchuria starts the Russo-Japanese War.https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040209.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 JAPANESE TORPEDO BOATS FIGHT RUSSIANS AT PORT ARTHUR BALTIMORE BUSINESS DISTRICT WHOLLY WRECKED BY FLAMES MERCHANT SHIPS TAKEN BY MEN-OF-WAR OF THE MIKADO'S GOVERNMENT XXXI 133 9 February 1904 p. 1, columns 1–3 Los Angeles Herald 11 January 2022 California Digital Newspaper Collection1904 Arlington Journal Arlington, Texas 23 29 December 2021 https://arlingtonlibrary.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Newspapers/journal1904.pdf 23 March 2022 https://web.archive.org/web/20220323195647/https://arlingtonlibrary.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Newspapers/journal1904.pdf dead Tyler Sydney The Japan-Russia War: An Illustrated History of the War in the Far East, the Greatest Conflict of Modern Times https://archive.org/details/cu31924074523642/page/54/mode/2up 54-61 Philadelphia P. W. Ziegler Co. 1905 26 December 2021 Internet Archivehttps://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19420119&id=-e4ZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8SIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4412,1516787 https://web.archive.org/web/20160515202140/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19420119&id=-e4ZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8SIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4412,1516787 15 May 2016 Butcher Clifford F. Port Arthur Was 'the Pearl Harbor of 1904': While Officers and Men of Russian Fleet Were Attending a Reception the Japanese Navy Slipped Into Harbor and Attacked Czar's Ships Two Days Before Declaring War The Milwaukee Journal 19 January 1942 8 25 December 2021 Google News and Internet Archive February 9 – Battle of Chemulpo Bayhttps://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040210.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 SAVAGE ATTACKS BY JAPAN COST RUSSIA SEVEN SHIPS CRUISERS CAUGHT IN CHEMULPO HARBOR AND DESTROYED STORY OF THE RUSSIANS' DEFEAT XXXI 134 10 February 1904 p. 1, columns 1–7 Los Angeles Herald 11 January 2022 California Digital Newspaper Collectionhttps://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040210.2.3&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 RUSSIAN VESSELS ARE DESTROYED AT CHEMULPO XXXI 134 10 February 1904 p. 1, columns 1–2 Los Angeles Herald 11 January 2022 California Digital Newspaper CollectionTyler, pp. 61–65. February 23 – Japan–Korea Treaty of February 1904https://books.google.com/books?id=9OdAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA34 Korea's Appeal to the Conference on Limitation of Armament Washington, D.C. Government Printing Office 1922 34 26 December 2021 Google Books April 30–May 1 – Battle of Yalu River (1904)https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040501.2.3&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 PITCHED BATTLE RAGING ON YALU Japanese Main Army in Russian Territory Has Skirmished Five Days and Will Strike Enemy Today XXXI 215 1 May 1904 p. 1, columns 2–3; p. 2, columns 1–2 Los Angeles Herald 23 February 2022 California Digital Newspaper Collectionhttps://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.6&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 CONTINUOUS FIGHTING ON YALU RIVER Japanese Attack the Russian Position. Slavs Confine Their Efforts to Harassing Enemy's Advance. Mikado's Troops Are Pouring Across the Stream in the Face of a Heavy Fire. XCV 153 1 May 1904 p. 25, column 4; p. 26, column 4 San Francisco Call 1 March 2022 California Digital Newspaper Collectionhttps://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040502.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 JAPANESE CAPTURE RUSSIAN INTRENCHMENTS AFTER DESPERATE FIGHTING ON YALU'S BANKS XCV 154 2 May 1904 p. 1, columns 1–7; p. 2, columns 3–4 San Francisco Call 17 March 2022 California Digital Newspaper Collection https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040502.2.14&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 RUSSIANS ATTRIBUTE DEFEAT TO FOE'S SUPERIOR NUMBERS XCV 154 2 May 1904 p. 2, columns 1–5 San Francisco Call 17 March 2022 California Digital Newspaper Collection https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040502.2.14.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 St. Petersburg Staff Asserts Yalu Engagement Was Not Decisive. XCV 154 2 May 1904 p. 2, columns 1–2 San Francisco Call 17 March 2022 California Digital Newspaper CollectionGarner J. W. Record of Political Events Political Science Quarterly 19 4 Academy of Political Science, Wiley December 1904 717–748 10.2307/2140340 2140340 https://www.jstor.org/stable/2140340 24 March 2022 subscription Tyler, pp. 177–196. May 25–26 – Battle of NanshanTyler, pp. 240–246. June 14–15 – Battle of Te-li-Ssuhttps://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040616.2.20&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 1000 RUSSIANS SLAIN IN FURIOUS BATTLE NEAR PORT ARTHUR Slavs, Leaving Guns, Retreat in Disorder RUSSIANS IN FULL FLIGHT Naval Battle Rages in the Strait of Korea JAP TRANSPORTS REPORTED SUNK XXXI 261 16 June 1904 p. 3, columns 1–7 Los Angeles Herald 25 December 2022 California Digital Newspaper Collection July 10 – Battle of Motien Pass July 24–25 – Battle of Tashihchiao July 31 – Battle of Hsimucheng August 10 – Battle of the Yellow Sea August 14 – Battle off Ulsan August 20 – Battle of Korsakov August 22 – Japan–Korea Agreement of August 1904 August 24–September 4 – Battle of Liaoyang October 5–17 – Battle of Shaho Unknown date – Hirano Rubber Manufacturing, as predecessor of Toyo Tire was founded.May 2020 Births February 9 – Kikuko Kawakami, author (d. 1985) May 27 – Chūhei Nambu, track and field athlete (d. 1997) June 1 – Ineko Sata, communist and feminist author of proletarian literature (d. 1998)https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-ineko-sata-1181275.html Kirkup James James Kirkup Obituary: Ineko Sata The Independent Culture 29 October 1998 30 July 2022 July 9 – Hideo Oguni, Japanese writer (d. 1996)http://ark.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb141254923 Notice de personne "Oguni, Hideo (1904-1996)" Person notice "Oguni, Hideo (1904-1996)" Bibliothèque nationale de France fr 4 November 2021 16 December 2022 July 18 – Fuji Yahiro, screenwriter (d. 1986)https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%85%AB%E5%B0%8B%E4%B8%8D%E4%BA%8C-1116918 八尋不二（読み）やひろ ふじ Fuji Yahiro Kotobank Digitalio, Inc. ja 23 January 2023 July 25 – Katsuji Matsumoto, illustrator (d. 1986) August 7 – Taro Takemi, physician and 11th President of the Japan Medical Association (d. 1983) August 16 – Minoru Genda, military aviator and politician (d. 1989) September 1 – Aya Kōda, essayist and novelist (d. 1990)Mirror: The Fiction and Essays of Kōda Aya Ann Sherif University of Hawai'i Press 1999 9780824821814 October 11 – Ken'ichi Enomoto, comedian and singer (d. 1970) November 18 – Masao Koga, composer (d. 1978) November 22 – Fumio Niwa, novelist (d. 2005) December 28 – Tatsuo Hori, writer, poet and translator (d. 1953) Deaths January 1 – Konoe Atsumaro, politician and journalist (b. 1863)https://www.ndl.go.jp/portrait/e/datas/80.html?c=0 Konoe, Atsumaro (1863–1904) Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures National Diet Library, Japan 2013 en 21 December 2021 January 9 – Ii Naonori, former daimyō, son of Ii Naosuke (b. 1848) February 6 – Utagawa Yoshiiku, artist (b. 1833)https://www.artelino.com/articles/yoshiiku-utagawa.asp Yoshiiku Utagawa artelino 27 December 2021 March 27 – Takeo Hirose, navy career officer (b. 1868)https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040331.2.35&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 TOGO LAUDS TWO HEROES OF HIS FLEET Recounts the Bravery of Men Killed in Action at Port Arthur. Commander Hirose Struck by a Shell While Leaving Sinking Vessel. Movement Is Instituted to Erect a Monument to His Memory. 95 122 31 March 1904 p. 5, column 2 San Francisco Call 10 February 2022 California Digital Newspaper CollectionHirose, Takeo The Russo-Japanese War Research Society 2002 russojapanesewar.com http://www.russojapanesewar.com/hirose.html https://web.archive.org/web/20061031113825/http://www.russojapanesewar.com/hirose.html 31 October 2006 usurped 19 January 2022 August 12 – Kawamura Sumiyoshi, admiral (b. 1836) August 31 – Tachibana Shūta, soldier (b. 1865) September 26 – Koizumi Yakumo, writer (b. 1850) References 1904 in Category:1900s in Japan Japan Category:1904 in Asia