1907 in Japan
Events in the year 1907 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 40 in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
Governors
- Aichi Prefecture: Ichizo Fukano
- Akita Prefecture: Chuji Shimooka
- Aomori Prefecture: Shotaro Nishizawa
- Ehime Prefecture: Kensuke Ando
- Fukui Prefecture: Suke Sakamoto, Nakamura Junkuro
- Fukushima Prefecture: Arita Yoshisuke then Hiraoka Teitaro
- Gifu Prefecture: Sadakichi Usu
- Gunma Prefecture: Yoshimi Teru, Arita Yoshisuke
- Hiroshima Prefecture: Yamada Shunzō, Tadashi Munakata
- Ibaraki Prefecture: Otsuka, Mori Masataka
- Iwate Prefecture: Sokkichi Oshikawa, Shinichi Kasai
- Kagawa Prefecture: Motohiro Onoda
- Kumamoto Prefecture: Egi Kazuyuki, Norikichi Oshikawa
- Kōchi Prefecture: Munakata Tadashi, Sada Suzuki
- Kyoto Prefecture: Shoichi Omori
- Mie Prefecture: Baron Shoichi Omori
- Miyagi Prefecture: Kamei Ezaburo
- Miyazaki Prefecture: Nagai Enjin
- Nagano Prefecture: Tsunamasa Ōyama
- Niigata Prefecture: Hiroshi Abe, Kiyoshi Honba
- Okayama Prefecture: Terada Yushi
- Okinawa Prefecture: Narahara Shigeru
- Osaka Prefecture: Chikaaki Takasaki
- Saga Prefecture: Fai Kagawa
- Saitama Prefecture: Marquis Okubo, Toshi Takeshi, Shimada Gotaro
- Shiga Prefecture: Sada Suzuki
- Shimane Prefecture: Matsunaga Takeyoshi
- Tochigi Prefecture:.....
- Tokyo: Baron Senge Takatomi
- Toyama Prefecture: Usami Katsuo
- Yamagata Prefecture: Mabuchi Eitaro
Events
- February 5 - Nisshin Spinning, later Nisshinbo founded.
- February 15 - Gentlemen's Agreement of 1907
- May Unknown date
- *Maruzen Petroleum, as predecessor of Cosmo Petroleum was founded in Osaka.
- *Seasoning, food processing, medication brand, Ajinomoto was founded by Saburosuke Suzuki in Kyobashi, Tokyo, as predecessor name was Suzuki Pharmaceutical Manufacturing.
- May 11 - Hinode Life Insurance, later Sumitomo Life Insurance was founded.
- June 10 - Franco-Japanese Treaty of 1907
- July 24 - Japan–Korea Treaty of 1907
- September 7 - Asahi Grass founded in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture.
Births
- January 1 - Kinue Hitomi, sprinter and long jumper
- January 8 - Keizō Hayashi, civil servant
- January 23 - Hideki Yukawa, theoretical physicist, Nobel laureate
- February 25 - Utaemon Ichikawa, actor
- March 17 - Takeo Miki, 41st Prime Minister of Japan
- April 29 - Chūya Nakahara, poet
- May 6 - Yasushi Inoue, author
- June 29 - Junji Nishikawa, footballer
- July 15 - Shōshin Nagamine, karate master, author, soldier and police officer
- August 1 - Hisato Ohzawa, composer
- August 12 - Noriko Awaya, soprano chanson and ryūkōka singer
- October 1 - Ryōichi Hattori, composer
Deaths
- March 12 - Matsumoto Jun, physician
- September 2 - Kuga Katsunan, journalist
- October 5 - Nakayama Yoshiko, lady-in-waiting, mother of Emperor Meiji
- December 16 - Asai Chū, painter