1899 in Japan

← 1898 1897 1896 1899 in Japan → 1900 1901 1902
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	Other events of 1899 History of Japan  • Timeline  • Years

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

Incumbents[]

• Emperor: Emperor Meiji^[1]
• Prime Minister: Yamagata Aritomo

Events[]

• February 1 – Telephone service begins between Tokyo and Osaka.
• February 7 – Keiō and Waseda become Japan's first private universities.
• February 13 – The income tax law is promulgated.
• March 1 – Sankyo Pharmaceutical established in Yokohama, as predecessor of Daiichi Sankyo.^{[citation needed]}
• March 4 – Japan passes its first copyright law
• July 17 – NEC Corporation is organized as the first Japanese joint venture with foreign capital.
• November – Momijigari, the oldest extant Japanese film, is shot an open space behind the Kabuki-za in Tokyo.^[2]
• Unknown date – Morinaga Confectionery was founded, as predecessor name was Morinaga Western Confectionery.^{[page needed]}

Births[]

• January 20 – Kenjiro Takayanagi, television engineer, creator of the world's first all-electronic television receiver (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 1 – Saburō Matsukata, journalist, businessman and mountaineer (d. 1973)
• August 5 – Sakae Tsuboi, novelist and poet (d. 1967)
• September 8 – Akiko Seki, soprano (d. 1973)
• October 1 – Matsutarō Kawaguchi, novelist, playwright and film producer (d. 1985)
• November 7 – Daisuke Nanba, communist activist (d. 1924)
• December 3 – Hayato Ikeda, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1965)
• Unknown – Genkei Masamune, botanist, (d. 1993)

Deaths[]

• January 21 – Katsu Kaishū, statesman and naval engineer (b. 1823)
• May 11 – Kawakami Soroku. General (b. 1848)
• September 26 – Ōki Takatō, statesman, Mayor of Tokyo (b. 1832)
• December 26 – Harada Naojirō, yōga-style painter (b. 1863)

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