1901 in Japan

Events in the year 1901 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 34 in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

Governors

Aichi Prefecture: Mori Mamoru
Akita Prefecture: Takeda Chiyosaburo
Aomori Prefecture: Munakata Tadashi then Ichiji Yamanouchi
Ehime Prefecture: Tai Neijro
Fukui Prefecture: Saburo Iwao then Munakata Tadashi
Fukushima Prefecture: Arita Yoshisuke
Gifu Prefecture: Kawaji Toshikyo
Gunma Prefecture: Furusho Kamon then Nobuchika Ogura
Hiroshima Prefecture: Asada Tokunori
Ibaraki Prefecture: Chuzo Kono
Iwate Prefecture: Ganri Hojo
Kagawa Prefecture: Naokata Suehiro
Kochi Prefecture: Kinyuu Watanabe
Kumamoto Prefecture: Tokuhisa Tsunenori then Egi Kazuyuki
Kyoto Prefecture: Baron Shoichi Omori
Mie Prefecture: Kamon Furusha
Miyagi Prefecture: Motohiro Onoda then Tadashi Munakata
Miyazaki Prefecture: Sukeo Kabawaya then Isamu Sonowaya
Nagano Prefecture: Oshikawa Sokkichi then Seki Kiyohide
Niigata Prefecture: Oshikawa Sokkichi
Oita Prefecture: Marques Okubo Toshi Takeshi
Okinawa Prefecture: Shigeru Narahara
Osaka Prefecture: Tadashini Kikuchi
Saga Prefecture: Seki Kiyohide then Fai Kagawa
Saitama Prefecture: Marquis Okubo Toshi Takeshi
Shiga Prefecture: Sada Suzuki
Shiname Prefecture: Matsunaga Takeyoshi
Tochigi Prefecture: Korechika
Tokushima Prefecture: Saburo Iwao
Tokyo: Baron Sangay Takatomi
Toyama Prefecture: Higaki Naosuke
Yamagata Prefecture: Baron Seki Yoshiomi

Events

February 5 - Japan fires up the furnace at its first modern ironworks.
April 20 - Japan Women's University is established.
June 2 - Katsura Tarō becomes Prime Minister of Japan.
September 7 - The Boxer Protocol is signed between the Qing Empire of China and the Eight-Nation Alliance. Japan is represented by the Minister for Foreign Affairs Komura Jutarō.
Unknown date - Imabari Shipbuilding was founded, as predecessor name was Higaki Shipbuilding in Ehime Prefecture.

Births

February 15 - Minoru Inuzuka, film director and screenwriter
February 16 - Koji Shima, film director, actor, and screenwriter
February 17 - Motojirō Kajii, writer
March 10 - Mushitaro Oguri, novelist
March 27 - Eisaku Satō, Prime Minister of Japan, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
April 19 - Kiyoshi Oka, mathematician
April 29
*Hotsumi Ozaki, journalist and soviet spy
*Hirohito, 124th Emperor of Japan
June 21 - Mitsuko Yoshikawa, FILM actress
July 10 - Eiji Tsuburaya, Japanese film director and special effects designer
September 9 - Hideo Oguma, poet
November 4 - Princess Masako Nashimoto, consort of Crown Prince Euimin of Korea
November 5 - Chōgorō Kaionji, writer
December 12 - Ihei Kimura, photographer

Deaths

January 20 - Keisuke Ito, physician and biologist
February 3 - Fukuzawa Yukichi, writer and educator
March 29 - Ōshima Takatō, engineer
June 6 - Oda Nobutoshi, former daimyō
June 21 - Hoshi Tōru, politician and cabinet minister
August 19 - Shō Tai, last king of the Ryukyu Kingdom
December 13 - Nakae Chōmin, philosopher and journalist