1904 in Japan
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Events in the year1904 in Japan.It corresponds toMeiji37( minh trị 37 năm ) in theJapanese calendar.
Incumbents
[edit]Governors
[edit]- Aichi Prefecture:Masaaki Nomura
- Akita Prefecture:Ichiro TsubakithenOka Kishichiro Itami
- Aomori Prefecture:Ichiji YamanouchithenKatsutaro InuzukathenShotaro Nishizawa
- Ehime Prefecture:Tai NeijrothenMakoto SugaithenKensuke Ando
- Fukui Prefecture:Suke Sakamoto
- Fukushima Prefecture:Arita Yoshisuke
- Gifu Prefecture:Kawaji Toshikyo
- Gunma Prefecture:Yoshimi Teru
- Hiroshima Prefecture:Tokuhisa TsunenorithenYamada Shunzō
- Ibaraki Prefecture:Teru Terahara
- Iwate Prefecture:Ganri HojothenSokkichi Oshikawa
- Kagawa Prefecture:Motohiro Onoda
- Kochi Prefecture:Munakata Tadashi
- Kumamoto Prefecture:Egi Kazuyuki
- Kyoto Prefecture:Baron Shoichi Omori
- Mie Prefecture:Kamon FurushathenLord Arimitsu Hideyoshi
- Miyagi Prefecture:Terumi Tanabe
- Miyazaki Prefecture:Toda Tsunetaro
- Nagano Prefecture:Seki Kiyohide
- Niigata Prefecture:Hiroshi Abe
- Oita Prefecture:Marques Okubo Toshi TakeshithenShuichi KinoshitathenOgura Hisashi
- Okinawa Prefecture:Shigeru Narahara
- Saga Prefecture:Seki Kiyohide
- Saitama Prefecture:Count Jissho OogimachithenMarquis Okubo Toshi Takeshi
- Shiga Prefecture:Sada Suzuki
- Shiname Prefecture:Ihara KothenMatsunaga Takeyoshi
- Tochigi Prefecture:Kubota Kiyochika
- Tokushima Prefecture:Saburo Iwao
- Tokyo:Baron Sangay Takatomi
- Toyama Prefecture:Rika Ryusuke
- Yamagata Prefecture:Tanaka Takamichi
- Yamanashi Prefecture:Takeda Chiyosaburo
Events
[edit]- February 8–9 –Battle of Port Arthur:A surprise Japanese naval attack onPort Arthur(Lüshun) inManchuriastarts theRusso-Japanese War.[2][3][4][5]
- February 9 –Battle of Chemulpo Bay[6][7][8]
- February 23 –Japan–Korea Treaty of 1904[9]
- April 30–May 1 –Battle of Yalu River (1904)[10][11][12][13][14]
- May 25–26 –Battle of Nanshan[15]
- June 14–15 –Battle of Te-li-Ssu[16]
- July 10 –Battle of Motien Pass
- July 24–25 –Battle of Tashihchiao
- July 31 –Battle of Hsimucheng
- August 10 –Battle of the Yellow Sea
- August 14 –Battle off Ulsan
- August 20 –Battle of Korsakov
- August 22 –Japan–Korea Agreement of August 1904
- August 24–September 4 –Battle of Liaoyang
- October 5–17 –Battle of Shaho
- Unknown date – Hirano Rubber Manufacturing, as predecessor ofToyo Tirewas founded.[page needed]
Births
[edit]- February 9 –Kikuko Kawakami,author (d.1985)
- May 27 –Chūhei Nambu,track and field athlete (d.1997)
- June 1 –Ineko Sata,communist and feminist author ofproletarian literature(d.1998)[17]
- July 18 –Fuji Yahiro,screenwriter (d.1986)[18]
- July 25 –Katsuji Matsumoto,illustrator (d. 1986)
- August 7 –Taro Takemi,physician and 11th President of theJapan Medical Association(d.1983)
- August 16 –Minoru Genda,military aviator and politician (d.1989)
- September 1 –Aya Kōda,essayist and novelist (d.1990)[19]
- October 11 –Ken'ichi Enomoto,comedian and singer (d.1970)
- November 18 –Masao Koga,composer (d.1978)
- November 22 –Fumio Niwa,novelist (d.2005)
- December 28 –Tatsuo Hori,writer, poet and translator (d.1953)
Deaths
[edit]- January 1 –Konoe Atsumaro,politician and journalist (b. 1863)[20]
- January 9 –Ii Naonori,formerdaimyō,son ofIi Naosuke(b. 1848)
- February 6 –Utagawa Yoshiiku,artist (b. 1833)[21]
- March 27 –Takeo Hirose,navy career officer (b. 1868)[22][23]
- August 12 –Kawamura Sumiyoshi,admiral (b. 1836)
- August 31 –Tachibana Shūta,soldier (b. 1865)
- September 26 –Koizumi Yakumo,writer (b. 1850)
References
[edit]- ^"Meiji | emperor of Japan".Encyclopedia Britannica.Retrieved27 March2019.
- ^"JAPANESE TORPEDO BOATS FIGHT RUSSIANS AT PORT ARTHUR BALTIMORE BUSINESS DISTRICT WHOLLY WRECKED BY FLAMES MERCHANT SHIPS TAKEN BY MEN-OF-WAR OF THE MIKADO'S GOVERNMENT".Los Angeles Herald.Vol. XXXI, no. 133. 9 February 1904. Page 1, columns 1-3.Retrieved11 January2022– viaCalifornia Digital Newspaper Collection.
- ^"1904 Arlington Journal"(PDF).Arlington, Texas.p. 23.Retrieved29 December2021.
- ^Tyler, Sydney (1905).The Japan-Russia War: An Illustrated History of the War in the Far East, the Greatest Conflict of Modern Times.Philadelphia:P. W. Ziegler Co. pp.54-61.Retrieved26 December2021– viaInternet Archive.
- ^Butcher, Clifford F. (19 January 1942)."Port Arthur Was 'the Pearl Harbor of 1904': While Officers and Men of Russian Fleet Were Attending a Reception the Japanese Navy Slipped Into Harbor and Attacked Czar's Ships Two Days Before Declaring War".The Milwaukee Journal.p. 8. Archived fromthe originalon 15 May 2016.Retrieved25 December2021– viaGoogle Newsand Internet Archive.
- ^"SAVAGE ATTACKS BY JAPAN COST RUSSIA SEVEN SHIPS CRUISERS CAUGHT IN CHEMULPO HARBOR AND DESTROYED STORY OF THE RUSSIANS' DEFEAT".Los Angeles Herald.Vol. XXXI, no. 134. 10 February 1904. Page 1, columns 1-7.Retrieved11 January2022– via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- ^"RUSSIAN VESSELS ARE DESTROYED AT CHEMULPO".Los Angeles Herald.Vol. XXXI, no. 134. 10 February 1904. Page 1, columns 1-2.Retrieved11 January2022– via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- ^Tyler, pp.61-65.
- ^Korea's Appeal to the Conference on Limitation of Armament.Washington, D.C.:Government Printing Office.1922. p. 34.Retrieved26 December2021– viaGoogle Books.
- ^"PITCHED BATTLE RAGING ON YALU Japanese Main Army in Russian Territory Has Skirmished Five Days and Will Strike Enemy Today".Los Angeles Herald.Vol. XXXI, no. 215. 1 May 1904. Page 1, columns 2-3; page 2, columns 1-2.Retrieved23 February2022– via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- ^"CONTINUOUS FIGHTING ON YALU RIVER Japanese Attack the Russian Position. Slavs Confine Their Efforts to Harassing Enemy's Advance. Mikado's Troops Are Pouring Across the Stream in the Face of a Heavy Fire".San Francisco Call.Vol. XCV, no. 153. 1 May 1904. Page 25, column 4; page 26, column 4.Retrieved1 March2022– via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- ^"JAPANESE CAPTURE RUSSIAN INTRENCHMENTS AFTER DESPERATE FIGHTING ON YALU'S BANKS".San Francisco Call.Vol. XCV, no. 154. 2 May 1904. Page 1, columns 1-7; page 2, columns 3-4.Retrieved17 March2022– viaCalifornia Digital Newspaper Collection.
- "RUSSIANS ATTRIBUTE DEFEAT TO FOE'S SUPERIOR NUMBERS".San Francisco Call.Vol. XCV, no. 154. 2 May 1904. Page 2, columns 1-5.Retrieved17 March2022– via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- "St. Petersburg Staff Asserts Yalu Engagement Was Not Decisive".San Francisco Call.Vol. XCV, no. 154. 2 May 1904. Page 2, columns 1-2.Retrieved17 March2022– via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- ^Garner, J. W. (December 1904)."Record of Political Events".Political Science Quarterly.19(4).Academy of Political Science,Wiley:717–48.doi:10.2307/2140340.JSTOR2140340.Retrieved24 March2022– viaJSTOR.
- ^Tyler, pp.177-196.
- ^Tyler, pp.240-246.
- ^"1000 RUSSIANS SLAIN IN FURIOUS BATTLE NEAR PORT ARTHUR Slavs, Leaving Guns, Retreat in Disorder RUSSIANS IN FULL FLIGHT Naval Battle Rages in the Strait of Korea JAP TRANSPORTS REPORTED SUNK".Los Angeles Herald.Vol. XXXI, no. 261. 16 June 1904. Page 3, columns 1-7.Retrieved25 December2022– via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- ^Kirkup, James(29 October 1998)."Obituary: Ineko Sata".Culture.The Independent.Retrieved30 July2022.
- ^"Tám tìm như một ( đọc み ) やひろ ふじ"[Fuji Yahiro].Kotobank(in Japanese). DIGITALIO, Inc.Retrieved23 January2023.
- ^Sherif, Ann (1999).Mirror: The Fiction and Essays of Kōda Aya.University of Hawai'i Press.ISBN9780824821814.
- ^"Konoe, Atsumaro (1863 - 1904)".Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures.National Diet Library,Japan.2013.Retrieved21 December2021.
- ^"Yoshiiku Utagawa".artelino.Retrieved27 December2021.
- ^"TOGO LAUDS TWO HEROES OF HIS FLEET Recounts the Bravery of Men Killed in Action at Port Arthur. Commander Hirose Struck by a Shell While Leaving Sinking Vessel. Movement Is Instituted to Erect a Monument to His Memory".San Francisco Call.Vol. 95, no. 122. 31 March 1904. Page 5, column 2.Retrieved10 February2022– via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- ^"HIROSE, Takeo".russojapanesewar.The Russo-Japanese War Research Society. 2002. Archived fromthe originalon 31 October 2006.Retrieved19 January2022.
