1897 in Japan

none 1897 Japan Template:Year in Japan: Flag of Japan (1870–1999).svg 80px Other events of 1897 History of Japan Timeline Years Events from the year 1897 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 30 (明治30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: Matsukata Masayoshi Governors Aichi Prefecture: Tokito Konkyo then Egi Kazuyuki Akita Prefecture: Saburo Iwao Aomori Prefecture: Naomasa Maki then Ichiro Konoshu Ehime Prefecture: Chang Masaya Komaki then Yutori Kojiro then Park Shin Maki Naomasa Fukui Prefecture: Kunizo Arakawa then Denzaburo Hatano then Shingo Seki Fukushima Prefecture: Akiyama then Kimumichi Nagusami Gifu Prefecture: Sukeo Kabayama then Yoshinori Yumoto Gunma Prefecture: Masataka Ishizata Hiroshima Prefecture: Orita Heinai then Asada Tokunori Ibaraki Prefecture: Egi Kazuyuki then Motohiro Onoda then Prince Kiyoshi Honba Iwate Prefecture: Ichizo Hattori Kagawa Prefecture: Tsunenori Tokuhisa Kochi Prefecture: Ishida Eikichi then Hiroshi Shikakui Kumamoto Prefecture: Kanetake Oura Kyoto Prefecture: Baron Nobumichi Yamada then Baron Utsumi Tadakatsu Mie Prefecture: Terumi Tanabe Miyagi Prefecture: Minoru Katsumata then Sukeo Kabayama Miyazaki Prefecture: Senda Sadakatsuki Nagano Prefecture: Takasaki Chikaaki then Gondo Ka'nichi Niigata Prefecture: Asada Tokunori then Minoru Katsumata Oita Prefecture: Yasuhiko Hirayama then Shigetoo Sugimoto Okinawa Prefecture: Shigeru Narahara Osaka Prefecture: Utsumi Tadakatsu then Tokito Konkyo Saga Prefecture: Akira Oyama Saitama Prefecture: Tomi Senketaka Shiname Prefecture: Michio Sokabe then Hikoji Nakamura Tochigi Prefecture: Sato Nobu then Egi Kazuyuki then Sento Kiyoshi Tokyo: Marquis Michitsune Koga then Viscount Okabe Nagahon Toyama Prefecture: Ando Kinsuke then Tsurayuki Ishida Yamagata Prefecture: Shuichi Kinoshita then Kikuchi Karasu Events January 17 – A first issue newspaper, Kahoku Shinpō was published in Miyagi Prefecture.August 2020 May – Opening of the Kyoto National Museum. June 1 – Opening of Matsugishi Station in Chōshi, Chiba. 日本国有鉄道停車場一覧 JNR Station Directory Japanese National Railways 1985 Japan 145 4-533-00503-9 June 10 – Founding of the publishing company Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha. June 18 – establishment of Kyoto University under the name Kyoto Imperial University. Births March 2 – Shizue Kato, politician and activist (d. 2001) March 28 – Yusuke Hagihara, astronomer (d. 1979) April 19 – Jiroemon Kimura, supercentenarian, oldest man ever, world's oldest living person from December 2012 to June 2013. (d. 2013) October 10 – Shigeji Tsuboi, poet (d. 1975) October 23 – Yae Ibuka, nurse (d. 1989) November 12 – Eddie Imazu, art director (d. 1979) November 17 – Kinichiro Sakaguchi, agricultural chemist and microbiologist (d. 1994) November 28 – Chiyo Uno, writer and author (d. 1996) December 8 – Prince Fushimi Hiroyoshi, naval officer (d. 1938; myocardial infarction)Fujitani, T. Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan. University of California Press; Reprint edition (1998). 0-520-21371-8 December 26 – Unno Juza, writer, founding father of Japanese science fiction (d. 1949) Deaths August 24 – Mutsu Munemitsu, statesman and diplomat (b. 1844) November 29 – Mitsukuri Rinsho, statesman and legal scholar (born 1846) References 1897 in Category:1890s in Japan Category:1897 by country Category:Years of the 19th century in Japan Category:1897 in Asia