Events in the year 1904 in Japan.

Incumbents

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: Emperor Meiji *

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Katsura Tarō Prince was a Japanese politician and general of the Imperial Japanese Army who served as the Prime Minister of Japan from 1901 to 1906, from 1908 to 1911, and from 1912 to 1913. Katsura was a distinguished general of the First Sino-Japanese W ...

Governors

* Aichi Prefecture: Masaaki Nomura *Akita Prefecture: Ichiro Tsubaki then

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*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 Arita may refer to: * Arita (surname) *Arita, Saga, a town in Saga Prefecture, Japan :*Arita ware is a broad term for Japanese porcelain made in the area around the town of Arita, in the former Hizen Province, northwestern Kyūshū island. It ...

*Gifu Prefecture: Kawaji Toshikyo *Gunma Prefecture:

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* Hiroshima Prefecture: Tokuhisa Tsunenori then Yamada Haruzo *

Ibaraki Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kantō region of Honshu. Ibaraki Prefecture has a population of 2,871,199 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of . Ibaraki Prefecture borders Fukushima Prefecture to the north, Tochigi Prefecture ...

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*Iwate Prefecture: Ganri Hojo then Sokkichi Oshikawa *Kagawa Prefecture:

Motohiro Onoda Motohiro (written: , , , , , , , or ) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, Japanese singer-songwriter *, Japanese sailor *, Japanese manga artist *, Japanese ''kugyō'' *, Japanese noble *, Japanese politic ...

*Kochi Prefecture:

Munakata Tadashi Munakata may refer to: * Munakata (surname) *Munakata, Fukuoka is a city in Japan, located in Fukuoka Prefecture, in the north Chikuzen region of the prefecture. The city was founded on April 1, 1981. As of April 30, 2022, the city has an esti ...

Kumamoto Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Kumamoto Prefecture has a population of 1,748,134 () and has a geographic area of . Kumamoto Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the north, Ōita Prefecture to the northeast, M ...

Egi Kazuyuki Egi Kazuyuki (May 21, 1853 – August 23, 1932) was a Japanese politician who served as governor of Hiroshima Prefecture in 1898–1903. He was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture. He was also governor of Ibaraki Prefecture (1896–1897), Tochigi Prefec ...

* Kyoto Prefecture: Baron Shoichi Omori *Mie Prefecture: Kamon Furusha then

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* Miyagi Prefecture: Terumi Tanabe *Miyazaki Prefecture:

Toda Tsunetaro Toda may refer to: * Toda (surname), a Japanese surname *Queen Toda of Navarre (fl. 885–970) *Toda people * Toda language * Toda Embroidery * Toda lattice * Toda field theory * Oscillator Toda *Toda, Saitama is a city located in Saitama Prefe ...

* Nagano Prefecture:

Seki Kiyohide Seki may refer to: Places * Seki, Gifu, a city in Japan * Seki River, a river in Japan * Şəki, a city and provincial capital in Azerbaijan * Şəki (village), a village and municipality in Azerbaijan * Šeki, a small town in Slovenia * Seki ...

Niigata Prefecture is a prefecture in the Chūbu region of Honshu of Japan. Niigata Prefecture has a population of 2,227,496 (1 July 2019) and is the fifth-largest prefecture of Japan by geographic area at . Niigata Prefecture borders Toyama Prefecture and ...

: Hiroshi Abe *Oita Prefecture: Marques Okubo Toshi Takeshi then Shuichi Kinoshita then Ogura Hisashi * Okinawa Prefecture:

Shigeru Narahara Shigeru (written: , , , in hiragana or in katakana) is a masculine Japanese given name. Notable people with the name include: *, a Japanese architect *, a Japanese voice actor *, Japanese karateka *, Japanese sport wrestler *, Japanese socialist ...

Saga Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyushu. Saga Prefecture has a population of 809,248 (1 August 2020) and has a geographic area of 2,440 km2 (942 sq mi). Saga Prefecture borders Fukuoka Prefecture to the northeast and Nagasa ...

* Saitama Prefecture: Count Jissho Oogimachi then Marquis Okubo Toshi Takeshi *

Shiga Prefecture is a prefecture of Japan located in the Kansai region of Honshu. Shiga Prefecture has a population of 1,412,916 (1 October 2015) and has a geographic area of . Shiga Prefecture borders Fukui Prefecture to the north, Gifu Prefecture to the north ...

Sada Suzuki Sada may refer to: People Given name *Sada Abe (1905–after 1971), Japanese convicted murderer, prostitute and actress * Sada Jacobson (born 1983), American Olympic fencer *Sada Thompson (1927–2011), American actress *Sada Vidoo (born 1977), Dan ...

*Shiname Prefecture: Ihara Ko then

Matsunaga Takeyoshi Matsunaga (written: ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Daniel Matsunaga, Japanese-Brazilian model, actor and football player currently based in the Philippines * Enzo Matsunaga, author *Futoshi Matsunaga, Japanese se ...

*Tochigi Prefecture: Kubota Kiyochika *Tokushima Prefecture: Saburo Iwao *

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: Baron Sangay Takatomi *Toyama Prefecture: Rika Ryusuke *Yamagata Prefecture: Tanaka Takamichi *Yamanashi Prefecture:

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Events

*February 8–9 –

Battle of Port Arthur The of 8–9 February 1904 marked the commencement of the Russo-Japanese War. It began with a surprise night attack by a squadron of Japanese destroyers on the neutral Russian fleet anchored at Port Arthur, Manchuria, and continued with an e ...

: A surprise Japanese naval attack on Port Arthur (Lüshun) in

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starts the

Russo-Japanese War The Russo-Japanese War ( ja, 日露戦争, Nichiro sensō, Japanese-Russian War; russian: Ру́сско-япóнская войнá, Rússko-yapónskaya voyná) was fought between the Empire of Japan and the Russian Empire during 1904 and 1 ...

. *February 9 –

Battle of Chemulpo Bay The Battle of Chemulpo Bay was a naval battle in the Russo-Japanese War (1904–1905), which took place on 9 February 1904, off the coast of present-day Incheon (then called Chemulpo), Korea. Background The opening stage of the Russo-Japanese W ...

*February 23 – Japan–Korea Treaty of 1904 *April 30–May 1 – Battle of Yalu River (1904) *May 25–26 –

Battle of Nanshan The was one of many vicious land battles of the Russo-Japanese War. It took place on 24–26 May 1904 across a two-mile-wide defense line across the narrowest part of the Liáodōng Peninsula, covering the approaches to Port Arthur and on th ...

*June 14–15 –

Battle of Te-li-Ssu The Battle of Te-li-ssu ( '), also called Battle of Wafangou (russian: Бой у Вафангоу) after the nearby railway station, was a land battle of the Russo-Japanese War. It was fought at a hamlet some north of Port Arthur, Manchuria. ...

*July 10 – Battle of Motien Pass *July 24–25 – Battle of Tashihchiao *July 31 –

Battle of Hsimucheng The Battle of Hsimucheng ( ja, 析木城の戦い, Sekijō-no-tatakai; russian: Бой у Симучена) was a minor land engagement of the Russo-Japanese War. It was fought on 31 July 1904 near Hsimucheng, a hamlet in today's Ximu Town (� ...

*August 10 –

Battle of the Yellow Sea The Battle of the Yellow Sea ( ja, 黄海海戦, Kōkai kaisen; russian: Бой в Жёлтом море) was a major naval battle of the Russo-Japanese War, fought on 10 August 1904. In the Russian Navy, it was referred to as the Battle of 10 A ...

*August 14 –

Battle off Ulsan The naval Battle off Ulsan (Japanese: 蔚山沖海戦 ''Urusan'oki kaisen''; Russian: Бой в Корейском проливе, ''Boi v Koreiskom prolive''), also known as the Battle of the Japanese Sea or Battle of the Korean Strait, took pl ...

*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.

Births

*February 9 – Kikuko Kawakami, author (d.

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...

) *May 27 – Chūhei Nambu, track and field athlete (d.

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; '' Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of ...

) *June 1 – Ineko Sata, communist and feminist author of

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(d.

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ...

) *July 18 –

Fuji Yahiro (18 July 1904 – 9 November 1986) was a Japanese screenwriter, mostly of chanbara films. His real name was Minoru Yahiro. Leaving Meiji University before graduating, he began writing screenplays at Shōzō Makino's Makino Film Production ...

, screenwriter (d.

1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 **Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal enter ...

) *July 25 –

Katsuji Matsumoto was a Japanese illustrator and shōjo manga artist. Matsumoto's 16-page ''The Mysterious Clover'' (1934) is recognized as a pioneering work in the field of manga, but he is best known for his shōjo manga ''Kurukuru Kurumi-chan'', serialized fr ...

, illustrator (d. 1986) *August 7 – Taro Takemi, physician and 11th President of the

Japan Medical Association The (also known as JMA or ), is the largest professional association of licensed physicians in Japan. The JMA has been a member of the World Medical Association since 1951 and participates at all levels of the WMA. National headquarters are locat ...

(d.

1983 The year 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning ...

) *August 16 –

Minoru Genda was a Japanese military aviator and politician. He is best known for helping to plan the attack on Pearl Harbor. He was also the third Chief of Staff of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force. Early life Minoru Genda was the second son of a farme ...

, military aviator and politician (d.

1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs ...

) *September 1 – Aya Kōda, essayist and novelist (d.

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of humanity on Earth, astrophysicist ...

) *October 11 – Ken'ichi Enomoto, comedian and singer (d.

1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (''Extreme''). Between 10,000 and ...

) *November 18 –

Masao Koga was a Japanese composer, mandolinist, and guitarist of the Shōwa era who was dubbed "Japan's Irving Berlin" by Universal Press Syndicate. His melancholy style, based upon Nakayama Shimpei's '' yonanuki'' scale, was popularly known in Japan a ...

, composer (d. 1978) *November 22 – Fumio Niwa, novelist (d. 2005) *December 28 –

Tatsuo Hori was a Japanese translator and writer of poetry, short stories and novels. Early life Born in Tokyo, Hori studied Japanese literature at Tokyo Imperial University under Saisei Murō and Ryūnosuke Akutagawa. In addition to Japanese writers of ...

, writer, poet and translator (d.

1953 Events January * January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma. * January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a government-in-exile in Oslo. * January 14 ** Marshal Josip Broz Tito is chosen President of Yug ...

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Deaths

*January 1 –

Konoe Atsumaro was a Japanese politician and journalist of the Meiji era. He served as the 3rd President of the House of Peers and 7th President of the Gakushūin Peer's School in Meiji period Japan. He was also the father of Prime Minister Fumimaro Kono ...

, politician and journalist (b. 1863) *January 9 – Ii Naonori, former ''

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'', son of

Ii Naosuke was ''daimyō'' of Hikone (1850–1860) and also Tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate, Japan, a position he held from April 23, 1858, until his death, assassinated in the Sakuradamon Incident on March 24, 1860. He is most famous for signing the ...

(b. 1848) *February 6 –

Utagawa Yoshiiku , also known as or , was a Japanese artist of the Utagawa school. Life and career Born the son of teahouse proprietor Asakusa Tamichi in 1833, Yoshiiku became a student of ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi toward the end of the 1840s. His earlie ...

, artist (b. 1833) *March 27 –

Takeo Hirose , (May 27, 1868 – March 27, 1904) was a career officer in the Imperial Japanese Navy. He commanded the cargo vessel ''Fukui Maru'' during the Battle of Port Arthur in the Russo-Japanese War. The ship was hit by coastal artillery, and despite ...

, navy career officer (b. 1868) *August 12 –

Kawamura Sumiyoshi Count , was an admiral in the Imperial Japanese Navy. Kawamura's wife Haru was the aunt of Saigō Takamori. Biography A native of Satsuma, Kawamura studied navigation at Tokugawa bakufu naval school at Nagasaki, the Nagasaki Naval Training Cente ...

, admiral (b. 1836) *August 31 – Tachibana Shūta, soldier (b. 1865) *September 26 – Koizumi Yakumo, writer (b. 1850)

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