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Events in the year 1904 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 37 (明治37年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

Governors

Aichi Prefecture: Masaaki Nomura
Akita Prefecture: Ichiro Tsubaki then Oka Kishichiro Itami
Aomori Prefecture: Ichiji Yamanouchi then Katsutaro Inuzuka then Shotaro Nishizawa
Ehime Prefecture: Tai Neijro then Makoto Sugai then Kensuke Ando
Fukui Prefecture: Suke Sakamoto
Fukushima Prefecture: Arita Yoshisuke
Gifu Prefecture: Kawaji Toshikyo
Gunma Prefecture: Yoshimi Teru
Hiroshima Prefecture: Tokuhisa Tsunenori then Yamada Shunzō
Ibaraki Prefecture: Teru Terahara
Iwate Prefecture: Ganri Hojo then Sokkichi Oshikawa
Kagawa Prefecture: Motohiro Onoda
Kochi Prefecture: Munakata Tadashi
Kumamoto Prefecture: Egi Kazuyuki
Kyoto Prefecture: Baron Shoichi Omori
Mie Prefecture: Kamon Furusha then Lord Arimitsu Hideyoshi
Miyagi Prefecture: Terumi Tanabe
Miyazaki Prefecture: Toda Tsunetaro
Nagano Prefecture: Seki Kiyohide
Niigata Prefecture: Hiroshi Abe
Oita Prefecture: Marques Okubo Toshi Takeshi then Shuichi Kinoshita then Ogura Hisashi
Okinawa Prefecture: Shigeru Narahara
Saga Prefecture: Seki Kiyohide
Saitama Prefecture: Count Jissho Oogimachi then Marquis Okubo Toshi Takeshi
Shiga Prefecture: Sada Suzuki
Shiname Prefecture: Ihara Ko then Matsunaga 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

February 8–9 – Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise Japanese naval attack on Port Arthur (Lüshun) in Manchuria starts the Russo-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 of Toyo Tire was founded.^{[page needed]}

Births

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 of proletarian 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 the Japan 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

January 1 – Konoe Atsumaro, politician and journalist (b. 1863)^[20]
January 9 – Ii Naonori, former daimyō, son of Ii 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

^ "Meiji | emperor of Japan". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.
^ "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. Retrieved 11 January 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^ "1904 Arlington Journal" (PDF). Arlington, Texas. p. 23. Retrieved 29 December 2021.
^ 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. Retrieved 26 December 2021 – via Internet 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 from the original on 15 May 2016. Retrieved 25 December 2021 – via Google News and 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. Retrieved 11 January 2022 – 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. Retrieved 11 January 2022 – 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. Retrieved 26 December 2021 – via Google 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. Retrieved 23 February 2022 – 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. Retrieved 1 March 2022 – 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. Retrieved 17 March 2022 – via California 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. Retrieved 17 March 2022 – 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. Retrieved 17 March 2022 – 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. JSTOR 2140340. Retrieved 24 March 2022 – via JSTOR.
^ 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. Retrieved 25 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^ Kirkup, James (29 October 1998). "Obituary: Ineko Sata". Culture. The Independent. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
^ "八尋不二（読み）やひろふじ" [Fuji Yahiro]. Kotobank (in Japanese). DIGITALIO, Inc. Retrieved 23 January 2023.
^ Sherif, Ann (1999). Mirror: The Fiction and Essays of Kōda Aya. University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN 9780824821814.
^ "Konoe, Atsumaro (1863 - 1904)". Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures. National Diet Library, Japan. 2013. Retrieved 21 December 2021.
^ "Yoshiiku Utagawa". artelino. Retrieved 27 December 2021.
^ "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. Retrieved 10 February 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.
^ "HIROSE, Takeo". russojapanesewar.com. The Russo-Japanese War Research Society. 2002. Archived from the original on 31 October 2006. Retrieved 19 January 2022.

[1] "Meiji | emperor of Japan". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 March 2019.

[2] "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. Retrieved 11 January 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.

[3] "1904 Arlington Journal" (PDF). Arlington, Texas. p. 23. Retrieved 29 December 2021.

[4] 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. Retrieved 26 December 2021 – via Internet Archive.

[5] 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 from the original on 15 May 2016. Retrieved 25 December 2021 – via Google News and Internet Archive.

[6] "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. Retrieved 11 January 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.

[7] "RUSSIAN VESSELS ARE DESTROYED AT CHEMULPO". Los Angeles Herald. Vol. XXXI, no. 134. 10 February 1904. Page 1, columns 1-2. Retrieved 11 January 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.

[8] Tyler, pp. 61-65.

[9] Korea's Appeal to the Conference on Limitation of Armament. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office. 1922. p. 34. Retrieved 26 December 2021 – via Google Books.

[10] "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. Retrieved 23 February 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.

[11] "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. Retrieved 1 March 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.

[12] "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. Retrieved 17 March 2022 – via California 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. Retrieved 17 March 2022 – 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. Retrieved 17 March 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.

[13] "RUSSIANS ATTRIBUTE DEFEAT TO FOE'S SUPERIOR NUMBERS". San Francisco Call. Vol. XCV, no. 154. 2 May 1904. Page 2, columns 1-5. Retrieved 17 March 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.

[14] "St. Petersburg Staff Asserts Yalu Engagement Was Not Decisive". San Francisco Call. Vol. XCV, no. 154. 2 May 1904. Page 2, columns 1-2. Retrieved 17 March 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.

[13] 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. JSTOR 2140340. Retrieved 24 March 2022 – via JSTOR.

[14] Tyler, pp. 177-196.

[15] Tyler, pp. 240-246.

[16] "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. Retrieved 25 December 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.

[17] Kirkup, James (29 October 1998). "Obituary: Ineko Sata". Culture. The Independent. Retrieved 30 July 2022.

[18] "八尋不二（読み）やひろふじ" [Fuji Yahiro]. Kotobank (in Japanese). DIGITALIO, Inc. Retrieved 23 January 2023.

[19] Sherif, Ann (1999). Mirror: The Fiction and Essays of Kōda Aya. University of Hawai'i Press. ISBN 9780824821814.

[20] "Konoe, Atsumaro (1863 - 1904)". Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures. National Diet Library, Japan. 2013. Retrieved 21 December 2021.

[21] "Yoshiiku Utagawa". artelino. Retrieved 27 December 2021.

[22] "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. Retrieved 10 February 2022 – via California Digital Newspaper Collection.

[23] "HIROSE, Takeo". russojapanesewar.com. The Russo-Japanese War Research Society. 2002. Archived from the original on 31 October 2006. Retrieved 19 January 2022.

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