1909 in Japan

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See also:	Other events of 1909 History of Japan  • Timeline  • Years

Events in the year 1909 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 42 (明治42年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

• Emperor: Emperor Meiji
• Prime Minister: Katsura Tarō

Governors

• Aichi Prefecture: Masaaki Nomura
• Akita Prefecture: Mori Masataka
• Aomori Prefecture: Takeda Chiyosaburo
• Ehime Prefecture: Kensuke Ando then Takio Izawa
• Fukui Prefecture: Nakamura Junkuro
• Fukushima Prefecture: Shotaro Nishizawa
• Gifu Prefecture: Sadakichi Usu
• Gunma Prefecture: Uruji Kamiyama
• Hiroshima Prefecture: Tadashi Munakata
• Ibaraki Prefecture: Keisuke Sakanaka
• Iwate Prefecture: Shinichi Kasai
• Kagawa Prefecture: Motohiro Onoda
• Kumamoto Prefecture: Kawaji Toshikyo
• Kochi Prefecture: Kenzo Ishihara
• Kyoto Prefecture: Kawaji Toshikyo
• Mie Prefecture: Yoshisuke Arita
• Miyagi Prefecture: Hiroyuki Terada
• Miyazaki Prefecture: Tadayoshi Naokichi
• Nagano Prefecture: Akira Oyama
• Nara Prefecture: Raizo Wakabayashi
• Niigata Prefecture: Prince Kiyoshi Honba
• Okinawa Prefecture: Shigeaki Hibi
• Osaka Prefecture: Tadashini Kikuchi
• Saga Prefecture: Nishimura Mutsu
• Saitama Prefecture: Shimada Gotaro
• Shiname Prefecture: Maruyama Shigetoshi
• Tochigi Prefecture: .....
• Tokyo: Hiroshi Abe
• Toyama Prefecture: Usami Katsuo
• Yamagata Prefecture: Mabuchi Eitaro

Events

• April 29 – Fusako, Princess Kane, seventh daughter of Emperor Meiji, marries Prince Naruhisa Kitashirakawa.
• May 6 – Nobuko, Princess Fumi, eighth daughter of Emperor Meiji, marries Prince Yasuhiko Asaka
• September 4 – Japan and China sign the Jiandao/Gando Treaty, which gives Japan a way to receive railroad concessions in Manchuria.
• September 8 – A bottle glass, sheet glass and display product and sales brand, AGC was founded in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, as predecessor name was Asahi Glass.
• October Unknown date – Motorbike and compact car brand Suzuki founded, as predecessor name is Suzuki Weaving Machine Manufacturing.
• October 26 – Itō Hirobumi, four time Prime Minister of Japan (the 1st, 5th, 7th and 10th) and Resident-General of Korea, is assassinated by An Jung-geun at the Harbin Railway Station in Manchuria.

Births

• January 6 – Haruko Sugimura, film actress (d. 1997)
• January 20 – Gōgen Yamaguchi, martial artist (d. 1989)
• March 4 – Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda (d. 1992)
• March 6 – Shōhei Ōoka, writer (d. 1988)
• March 9 – Shizue Natsukawa, actress (d. 1999)
• March 27 – Eitaro Ozawa, actor (d. 1988)
• March 29 – Kiyoteru Hanada, literary critic and essayist (d. 1974)
• April 14 – Yoshikata Yoda, screenwriter (d. 1991)
• May 5 – Atsushi Nakajima, author (d. 1942)
• June 19
  • Osamu Dazai, writer (d. 1948)
  • Midori Naka, stage actress (d. 1945)
• August 11 – Yuji Koseki, composer (d. 1989)
• September 9 – Setsuko Matsudaira, wife of Prince Chichibu (d. 1995)
• November 7
  • Ken Uehara, film actor (d. 1991)
  • Sadao Yamanaka, film director and screenwriter (d. 1938)
• November 16 – Michio Mado, poet (d. 2014)
• November 29 – Kinuyo Tanaka, film actress (d. 1977)
• December 21 – Seichō Matsumoto, writer (d. 1992)

Deaths

• May 10 – Futabatei Shimei, author, translator, and literary critic (b. 1864)
• July 19 – Arai Ikunosuke, samurai, navy minister of the Republic of Ezo (b. 1836)
• October 26 – Itō Hirobumi, statesman (b. 1841)
• November 14 – Yamakawa Futaba, educator (b. 1844)
• December 8 – Prince Kaya Kuninori (b. 1867)