1899 in Japan

← 1898 1897 1896 1899 in Japan → 1900 1901 1902
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	Other events of 1899 List of years in Japan

Events in the year 1899 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 32 (明治32年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

• Emperor: Emperor Meiji
• Prime Minister: Yamagata Aritomo

Events

• July 17 – NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.

Births

• January 20 – Kenjiro Takayanagi, engineer (d. 1990)
• February 10 – Suihō Tagawa, manga artist (d. 1989)
• February 13 – Yuriko Miyamoto, novelist (d. 1951)
• March 7 – Jun Ishikawa, writer (d. 1987)
• June 11 – Yasunari Kawabata, writer, novelist, Nobel laureate in Literature (d. 1972)
• August 5 – Sakae Tsuboi, novelist and poet (d. 1967)
• Deceeber 3 – Hayato Ikeda, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1965)

Deaths

• January 21 – Katsu Kaishū, statesman and naval engineer (b. 1823)
• September 26 – Ōki Takatō, statesman, Mayor of Tokyo (b. 1832)

References