1909 in Japan
Events in the year 1909 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 42 in the Japanese calendar.
Incumbents
Governors
- Aichi Prefecture: Masaaki Nomura
- Akita Prefecture: Mori Masataka
- Aomori Prefecture: Takeda Chiyosaburo
- Ehime Prefecture: Kensuke Ando then Takio Izawa
- Fukui Prefecture: Nakamura Junkuro
- Fukushima Prefecture: Shotaro Nishizawa
- Gifu Prefecture: Sadakichi Usu
- Gunma Prefecture: Uruji Kamiyama
- Hiroshima Prefecture: Tadashi Munakata
- Ibaraki Prefecture: Keisuke Sakanaka
- Iwate Prefecture: Shinichi Kasai
- Kagawa Prefecture: Motohiro Onoda
- Kumamoto Prefecture: Kawaji Toshikyo
- Kochi Prefecture: Kenzo Ishihara
- Kyoto Prefecture: Kawaji Toshikyo
- Mie Prefecture: Yoshisuke Arita
- Miyagi Prefecture: Hiroyuki Terada
- Miyazaki Prefecture: Tadayoshi Naokichi
- Nagano Prefecture: Akira Oyama
- Nara Prefecture: Raizo Wakabayashi
- Niigata Prefecture: Prince Kiyoshi Honba
- Okinawa Prefecture: Shigeaki Hibi
- Osaka Prefecture: Tadashini Kikuchi
- Saga Prefecture: Nishimura Mutsu
- Saitama Prefecture: Shimada Gotaro
- Shiname Prefecture: Maruyama Shigetoshi
- Tochigi Prefecture:.....
- Tokyo: Hiroshi Abe
- Toyama Prefecture: Usami Katsuo
- Yamagata Prefecture: Mabuchi Eitaro
Events
- April 29 - Fusako, Princess Kane, seventh daughter of Emperor Meiji, marries Prince Naruhisa Kitashirakawa.
- May 6 - Nobuko, Princess Fumi, eighth daughter of Emperor Meiji, marries Prince Yasuhiko Asaka
- September 4 - Japan and China sign the Jiandao/Gando Treaty, which gives Japan a way to receive railroad concessions in Manchuria.
- September 8 - A bottle glass, sheet glass and display product and sales brand, AGC was founded in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, as predecessor name was Asahi Glass.
- October Unknown date - Motorbike and compact car brand Suzuki founded, as predecessor name is Suzuki Weaving Machine Manufacturing.
- October 26 - Itō Hirobumi, four time Prime Minister of Japan and Resident-General of Korea, is assassinated by An Jung-geun at the Harbin Railway Station in Manchuria.
Births
- January 6 - Haruko Sugimura, film actress
- January 20 - Gōgen Yamaguchi, martial artist
- March 4 - Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda
- March 6 - Shōhei Ōoka, writer
- March 9 - Shizue Natsukawa, actress
- March 27 - Eitaro Ozawa, actor
- March 29 - Kiyoteru Hanada, literary critic and essayist
- April 14 - Yoshikata Yoda, screenwriter
- May 5 - Atsushi Nakajima, author
- June 19
- *Osamu Dazai, writer
- *Midori Naka, stage actress
- August 11 - Yuji Koseki, composer
- September 9 - Setsuko Matsudaira, wife of Prince Chichibu
- November 7
- *Ken Uehara, film actor
- *Sadao Yamanaka, film director and screenwriter
- November 16 - Michio Mado, poet
- November 29 - Kinuyo Tanaka, film actress
- December 21 - Seichō Matsumoto, writer
Deaths
- May 10 - Futabatei Shimei, author, translator, and literary critic
- July 19 - Arai Ikunosuke, samurai, navy minister of the Republic of Ezo
- October 26 - Itō Hirobumi, statesman
- November 14 - Yamakawa Futaba, educator
- December 8 - Prince Kaya Kuninori