1903 in Japan
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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
Events
- March 1 – Japanese general election, 1903: The Rikken Seiyūkai party remained the largest in the House of Representatives, winning 175 of the 376 seats, but lost its majority.
Births
- January 2 – Kane Tanaka, supercentenarian
- January 25 – Fumiko Kaneko, anarchist (d. 1926)[1]
- February 18 – Tokihiko Okada, silent film actor (d. 1934)
- March 6 – Empress Kōjun, empress consort of Emperor Hirohito (d. 2000)
- June 8 – Yukie Chiri, transcriber and translator (d. 1922)
- June 22 – Jiro Horikoshi, Aircraft designer and engineer (d. 1982)
- 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 screen writer (d. 1963)
- December 31 – Fumiko Hayashi, writer (d. 1951)
Deaths
- February 18 – Prince Komatsu Akihito, Field Marshal, Chief of the General Staff (b. 1846)
- 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)
- October 30 – Ozaki Kōyō, author (b. 1868)
References
- ^ The exact dates of Kaneko’s life are uncertain. The official record lists her birthday as January 25th, 1902, but this record was created years after her birth, and is therefore unreliable (see Early Life section). Her date of birth listed here is based on coinciding statements made by both of her parents. More information: Raddeker (1997), pp. 202–203.
