1908 in Japan
Events in the year 1908 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 41 in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
Governors
- Aichi Prefecture: Masaaki Nomura
- Akita Prefecture: Chuji Shimooka, Mori Masataka
- Aomori Prefecture: Shotaro Nishizawa, Takeda Chiyosaburo
- Ehime Prefecture: Kensuke Ando
- Fukui Prefecture: Nakamura Junkuro
- Fukushima Prefecture: Hiraoka Teitaro then Shotaro Nishizawa
- Gifu Prefecture: Sadakichi Usu
- Gunma Prefecture: Arita Yoshisuke then Nanbu Mitsumi then Uruji Kamiyama
- Hiroshima Prefecture: Tadashi Munakata
- Ibaraki Prefecture: Mori Masataka, Keisuke Sakanaka
- Iwate Prefecture: Shinichi Kasai
- Kagawa Prefecture: Motohiro Onoda
- Kochi Prefecture: Sada Suzuki, Kenzo Ishihara
- Kumamoto Prefecture: Nori Oshikawa, Kawaji Toshikyo
- Kyoto Prefecture: Baron Shoichi Omori
- Mie Prefecture: Lord Arimitsu Hideyoshi, Hayashi Ichizo, Yoshisuke Arita
- Miyagi Prefecture: Kamei Ezaburo, Hiroyuki Terada
- Miyazaki Prefecture: Nagai Enjin, Tadayoshi Naokichi
- Nagano Prefecture: Akira Oyama
- Niigata Prefecture: Prince Kiyoshi Honba
- Okinawa Prefecture: Shigeru Narahara, Shigeaki Hibi
- Saga Prefecture: Fai Kagawa, Inoue Takashihara, Nishimura Mutsu
- Saitama Prefecture: Shimada Gotaro
- Shiname Prefecture: Matsunaga Takeyoshi, Raizo Wakabayashi, Maruyama Shigetoshi
- Tochigi Prefecture:.....
- Tokyo: Baron Sangay Takatomi, Hiroshi Abe
- Toyama Prefecture: Shinhare Kawakami, Usami Katsuo
- Yamagata Prefecture: Mabuchi Eitaro
Events
- April 30 - Masako, Princess Tsune, sixth daughter of Emperor Meiji, marries Prince Tsunehisa Takeda.
- May 15 - 1908 Japanese general election
- June 22 - Red Flag Incident
- November 30 - Root–Takahira Agreement
- Unknown date - Yasui Sewing Machine, as predecessor of Brother Industries founded in Nagoya.
Births
- February 27 - Kazuo Hasegawa, actor
- February 29 - Masahiro Makino, film director
- April 11 - Masaru Ibuka, electronics industrialist, co-founder of Sony
- May 23 – Tomiko Itooka, supercentenarian, Japan’s oldest living People world's oldest living person
- July 8 - Kaii Higashiyama, painter
- July 9 - Takashi Asahina, conductor
- September 14 - Nobuo Nakamura, actor
- October 17 - Kenji Miyamoto, communist politician
- November 10 - Kenkichi Oshima, triple jumper
- November 11 - Sadako Sawamura, actress
- December 27 - Tadao Tannaka, triple jumper
Deaths
- January 13 - Hashimoto Gahō, painter
- March 25 - Iwasaki Yanosuke, businessman, and 4th Governor of the Bank of Japan
- May 2 - Prince Yamashina Kikumaro,
- June 23 - Doppo Kunikida, author and poet
- October 18 - Nozu Michitsura, field marshal
- October 26 - Enomoto Takeaki, politician, President of the Republic of Ezo
- November 25 - Inagaki Manjirō, diplomat
- December 17 - Inoue Hikaru general