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1903 in Japan

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Events in the year 1903 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 36 (明治36年) in the Japanese calendar.

Incumbents

  • Emperor: Emperor Meiji{{cite web |title=Meiji {{!}} emperor of Japan |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Meiji |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=27 March 2019 |language=en}}

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Events

  • March 1 – 1903 Japanese general election: The Rikken Seiyūkai party remained the largest in the House of Representatives, winning 175 of the 376 seats, but lost its majority.
  • July 7 – Momijigari, the oldest extant Japanese film, premiers. It runs until August 1.{{cite journal|last1=Irie|first1=Yoshiro|title=Saiko no Nihon eiga ni tsuite|journal=Tōkyō Kokuritsu Kindai Bijutsukan Kenkyū Kiyō|date=2009|issue=13|page=67|url=http://www.momat.go.jp/research/kiyo/13/pp65_91.pdf|access-date=9 December 2014|publisher=National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo|language=ja|issn=0914-7489|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130119181900/http://www.momat.go.jp/research/kiyo/13/pp65_91.pdf|archive-date=19 January 2013}}
  • Unknown date – Kagome was founded, as predecessor name was Aichi Tomato Food Processing in Tokai, Aichi Prefecture.{{page needed|date=May 2020}}

Births

  • January 2 – Kane Tanaka, supercentenarian (oldest verified Japanese person and the second oldest verified person ever) (d. 2022)
  • January 7 – Mori Mari, author (d. 1987)
  • January 25 – Fumiko Kaneko, anarchist (d. 1926){{efn|The exact dates of Kaneko’s life are uncertain. The official record lists her birthday as January 25, 1902, but this record was created years after her birth, and is therefore unreliable. Her date of birth listed here is based on coinciding statements made by both of her parents.{{cite book |last=Raddeker |first=Hélène Bowen |year=1997 |title=Treacherous Women of Imperial Japan: Patriarchal Fictions, Patricidal Fantasies |location=London |publisher=Routledge |isbn=9780415171120 |pages=202–203}}}}
  • February 3 – Yasutarō Yagi, screenwriter (d. 1987)
  • February 5 – Koto Matsudaira, diplomat (d. 1994)
  • February 18 – Tokihiko Okada, silent film actor (d. 1934)
  • March 6 – Empress Kōjun, empress consort of Emperor Hirohito (d. 2000)
  • March 30 – Chiezō Kataoka, actor (d. 1983)
  • April 11 - Misuzu Kaneko, poet (d. 1930)
  • May 19 - Shimoe Akiyama, Japanese supercentenarian (d. 2019)
  • June 8 – Yukie Chiri, Ainu transcriber and translator (d. 1922)
  • June 22 – Jiro Horikoshi, aircraft designer and engineer (d. 1982)
  • August 3 – Roppa Furukawa, film actor (d. 1961)
  • September 7 – Kensaku Shimaki, writer (d. 1945)
  • October 1 – Yoshiyuki Tsuruta, Olympic swimmer (d. 1986)
  • October 13 – Takiji Kobayashi, writer (d. 1933)
  • November 3 – Shizue Shiono, film actor (d. 1962){{cite book | author=Kinema Junpōsha | title=日本映画俳優全集・女優編 | trans-title=Complete Works of Japanese Film Actors and Actresses | location=Tōkyō | publisher=Kinema Junpōsha | year=1980 | page=424 | oclc=22823615 | language=JA}}
  • December 12 – Yasujirō Ozu, film director and screenwriter (d. 1963)
  • December 31 – Fumiko Hayashi, writer (d. 1951)

Deaths

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