1897 in Japan

Events from the year 1897 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 30 (明治30年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents Emperor: Emperor Meiji Prime Minister: Matsukata Masayoshi

Governors Aichi Prefecture: Tokito Konkyo then Egi Kazuyuki Akita Prefecture: Saburo Iwao Aomori Prefecture: Naomasa Maki then Ichiro Konoshu Ehime Prefecture: Chang Masaya Komaki then Yutori Kojiro then Park Shin Maki Naomasa Fukui Prefecture: Kunizo Arakawa then Denzaburo Hatano then Shingo Seki Fukushima Prefecture: Akiyama then Kimumichi Nagusami Gifu Prefecture: Sukeo Kabayama then Yoshinori Yumoto Gunma Prefecture: Masataka Ishizata Hiroshima Prefecture: Orita Heinai then Asada Tokunori Ibaraki Prefecture: Egi Kazuyuki then Motohiro Onoda then Prince Kiyoshi Honba Iwate Prefecture: Ichizo Hattori Kagawa Prefecture: Tsunenori Tokuhisa Kochi Prefecture: Ishida Eikichi then Hiroshi Shikakui Kumamoto Prefecture: Kanetake Oura Kyoto Prefecture: Baron Nobumichi Yamada then Baron Utsumi Tadakatsu Mie Prefecture: Terumi Tanabe Miyagi Prefecture: Minoru Katsumata then Sukeo Kabayama Miyazaki Prefecture: Senda Sadakatsuki Nagano Prefecture: Takasaki Chikaaki then Gondo Ka'nichi Niigata Prefecture: Asada Tokunori then Minoru Katsumata Oita Prefecture: Yasuhiko Hirayama then Shigetoo Sugimoto Okinawa Prefecture: Shigeru Narahara Osaka Prefecture: Utsumi Tadakatsu then Tokito Konkyo Saga Prefecture: Akira Oyama Saitama Prefecture: Tomi Senketaka Shiname Prefecture: Michio Sokabe then Hikoji Nakamura Tochigi Prefecture: Sato Nobu then Egi Kazuyuki then Sento Kiyoshi Tokyo: Marquis Michitsune Koga then Viscount Okabe Nagahon Toyama Prefecture: Ando Kinsuke then Tsurayuki Ishida Yamagata Prefecture: Shuichi Kinoshita then Kikuchi Karasu

Events January 17 – A first issue newspaper, Kahoku Shinpō was published in Miyagi Prefecture. May – Opening of the Kyoto National Museum. June 1 – Opening of Matsugishi Station in Chōshi, Chiba. June 10 – Founding of the publishing company Jitsugyo no Nihon Sha. June 18 – establishment of Kyoto University under the name Kyoto Imperial University.

Births March 2 – Shizue Kato, politician and activist (d. 2001) March 28 – Yusuke Hagihara, astronomer (d. 1979) April 19 – Jiroemon Kimura, supercentenarian, oldest man ever, world's oldest living person from December 2012 to June 2013. (d. 2013) October 10 – Shigeji Tsuboi, poet (d. 1975) October 23 – Yae Ibuka, nurse (d. 1989) November 12 – Eddie Imazu, art director (d. 1979) November 17 – Kinichiro Sakaguchi, agricultural chemist and microbiologist (d. 1994) November 28 – Chiyo Uno, writer and author (d. 1996) December 8 – Prince Fushimi Hiroyoshi, naval officer (d. 1938; myocardial infarction)Fujitani, T. Splendid Monarchy: Power and Pageantry in Modern Japan. University of California Press; Reprint edition (1998). December 26 – Unno Juza, writer, founding father of Japanese science fiction (d. 1949)

Deaths August 24 – Mutsu Munemitsu, statesman and diplomat (b. 1844) November 29 – Mitsukuri Rinsho, statesman and legal scholar (born 1846)

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