1899 in Japan
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Events in the year 1899 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 32 (明治32年) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
Events
- February 1 – Telephone service begins between Tokyo and Osaka.
- February 7 – Keiō and Waseda become Japan's first private universities.
- February 13 – The income tax law is promulgated.
- March 4 – Japan passes its first copyright law
- July 17 – NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
- November – Momijigari, the oldest extant Japanese film, is shot an open space behind the Kabuki-za in Tokyo.[2]
- Unknown date – Morinaga Confectionery was founded, as predecessor name was Morinaga Western Confectionery.[page needed]
Births
- January 20 – Kenjiro Takayanagi, television engineer, creator of the world's first all-electronic television receiver (d. 1990)
- February 10 – Suihō Tagawa, manga artist (d. 1989)
- February 13 – Yuriko Miyamoto, novelist (d. 1951)
- March 7 – Jun Ishikawa, writer (d. 1987)
- June 11 – Yasunari Kawabata, writer, novelist, Nobel laureate in Literature (d. 1972)
- August 1 – Saburō Matsukata, journalist, businessman and mountaineer (d. 1973)
- August 5 – Sakae Tsuboi, novelist and poet (d. 1967)
- September 8 – Akiko Seki, soprano (d. 1973)
- October 1 – Matsutarō Kawaguchi, novelist, playwright and film producer (d. 1985)
- November 7 – Daisuke Nanba, communist activist (d. 1924)
- December 3 – Hayato Ikeda, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1965)
- Unknown – Genkei Masamune, botanist, (d. 1993)
Deaths
- January 21 – Katsu Kaishū, statesman and naval engineer (b. 1823)
- September 26 – Ōki Takatō, statesman, Mayor of Tokyo (b. 1832)
- December 26 – Harada Naojirō, yōga-style painter (b. 1863)
References
- ^ "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.
