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Events in the year 1903 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 36 (明治36年) in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
Governors
- Aichi Prefecture: [[]]
- Akita Prefecture: [[]]
- Aomori Prefecture: [[]]
- Ehime Prefecture: [[]]
- Fukui Prefecture: [[]]
- Fukushima Prefecture: [[]]
- Gifu Prefecture: [[]]
- Gunma Prefecture: [[]]
- Hiroshima Prefecture: [[]]
- Ibaraki Prefecture: [[]]
- Iwate Prefecture: [[]]
- Kagawa Prefecture: [[]]
- Kumamoto Prefecture: [[]]
- Kochi Prefecture: [[]]
- Kyoto Prefecture: [[]]
- Mie Prefecture: [[]]
- Miyagi Prefecture: [[]]
- Miyazaki Prefecture: [[]]
- Nagano Prefecture: [[]]
- Nara Prefecture: [[]]
- Niigata Prefecture: [[]]
- Oita Prefecture: [[]]
- Okayama Prefecture: [[]]
- Okinawa Prefecture: [[]]
- Osaka Prefecture: [[]]
- Saga Prefecture: [[]]
- Saitama Prefecture: [[]]
- Shiga Prefecture: [[]]
- Shiname Prefecture: [[]]
- Tochigi Prefecture: [[]]
- Tokushima Prefecture: [[]]
- Tokyo: [[]]
- Toyama Prefecture: [[]]
- Wakayama Prefecture: [[]]
- Yamagata Prefecture: [[]]
- Yamaguchi Prefecture: [[]]
Events
- March 1 – 1903 Japanese general election: The Rikken Seiyūkai party remained the largest in the House of Representatives, winning 175 of the 376 seats, but lost its majority.
- July 7 – Momijigari, the oldest extant Japanese film, premiers. It runs until August 1.[2]
- Unknown date – Kagome was founded, as predecessor name was Aichi Tomato Food Processing in Tokai, Aichi Prefecture.[page needed]
Births
- January 2 – Kane Tanaka, supercentenarian
- January 7 – Mori Mari, author (d. 1987)
- January 25 – Fumiko Kaneko, anarchist (d. 1926)[a]
- February 3 – Yasutarō Yagi, screenwriter (d. 1987)
- February 5 – Koto Matsudaira, diplomat (d. 1994)
- February 18 – Tokihiko Okada, silent film actor (d. 1934)
- March 6 – Empress Kōjun, empress consort of Emperor Hirohito (d. 2000)
- March 30 – Chiezō Kataoka, actor (d. 1983)
- April 11 - Misuzu Kaneko, poet (d. 1930)
- June 8 – Yukie Chiri, Ainu transcriber and translator (d. 1922)
- June 22 – Jiro Horikoshi, aircraft designer and engineer (d. 1982)
- August 3 – Roppa Furukawa, film actor (d. 1961)
- September 7 – Kensaku Shimaki, writer (d. 1945)
- October 1 – Yoshiyuki Tsuruta, Olympic swimmer (d. 1986)
- October 13 – Takiji Kobayashi, writer (d. 1933)
- December 12 – Yasujirō Ozu, film director and screenwriter (d. 1963)
- December 31 – Fumiko Hayashi, writer (d. 1951)
Deaths
- February 18
- Prince Komatsu Akihito, Field Marshal, Chief of the General Staff (b. 1846)
- Onoe Kikugorō V, kabuki actor (b. 1844)
- April 28 – Saigō Tanomo, Shinto priest, martial artist and former Samurai (b. 1830)
- May 22 – Misao Fujimura, student and poet (b. 1886)
- June 29 – Rentarō Taki, pianist (b. 1879)
- August 27 – Kusumoto Ine, physician, first female doctor of Western medicine in Japan (b. 1827)
- September 13 – Ichikawa Danjūrō IX, kabuki actor (b. 1838)
- October 30 – Ozaki Kōyō, author (b. 1868)
Notes
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.
- ^ Raddeker, Hélène Bowen (1997). Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan: Patriarchal Fictions, Patricidal Fantasies. London: Routledge. pp. 202–203. ISBN 9780415171120.
