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1904 in Japan

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

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Events

  • February 8–9 – Battle of Port Arthur: A surprise Japanese naval attack on Port Arthur (Lüshun) in Manchuria starts the Russo-Japanese War.{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040209.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=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 |volume=XXXI |issue=133 |date=9 February 1904 |at=p. 1, columns 1–3 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=11 January 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite news |title=1904 Arlington Journal |location=Arlington, Texas |page=23 |access-date=29 December 2021 |url=https://arlingtonlibrary.org/sites/default/files/Documents/Newspapers/journal1904.pdf}}{{cite book |last=Tyler |first=Sydney |title=The Japan-Russia War: An Illustrated History of the War in the Far East, the Greatest Conflict of Modern Times |url=https://archive.org/details/cu31924074523642/page/54/mode/2up |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cu31924074523642/page/54/mode/2up 54-61] |location=Philadelphia |publisher=P. W. Ziegler Co. |year=1905 |access-date=26 December 2021 |via=Internet Archive}}{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19420119&id=-e4ZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8SIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4412,1516787 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160515202140/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=19420119&id=-e4ZAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8SIEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4412,1516787 |archive-date=15 May 2016 |last=Butcher |first=Clifford F. |title=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 |newspaper=The Milwaukee Journal |date=19 January 1942 |page=8 |access-date=25 December 2021 |via=Google News and Internet Archive}}
  • February 9 – Battle of Chemulpo Bay{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040210.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=SAVAGE ATTACKS BY JAPAN COST RUSSIA SEVEN SHIPS CRUISERS CAUGHT IN CHEMULPO HARBOR AND DESTROYED STORY OF THE RUSSIANS' DEFEAT |volume=XXXI |issue=134 |date=10 February 1904 |at=p. 1, columns 1–7 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=11 January 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040210.2.3&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=RUSSIAN VESSELS ARE DESTROYED AT CHEMULPO |volume=XXXI |issue=134 |date=10 February 1904 |at=p. 1, columns 1–2 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=11 January 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}Tyler, pp. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924074523642/page/60/mode/2up 61–65].
  • February 23 – Japan–Korea Treaty of February 1904{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9OdAAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA34 |title=Korea's Appeal to the Conference on Limitation of Armament |location=Washington, D.C. |publisher=Government Printing Office |year=1922 |page=34 |access-date=26 December 2021 |via=Google Books}}
  • April 30–May 1 – Battle of Yalu River (1904){{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040501.2.3&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=PITCHED BATTLE RAGING ON YALU Japanese Main Army in Russian Territory Has Skirmished Five Days and Will Strike Enemy Today |volume=XXXI |issue=215 |date=1 May 1904 |at=p. 1, columns 2–3; p. 2, columns 1–2 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=23 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040501.2.6&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=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. |volume=XCV |issue=153 |date=1 May 1904 |at=p. 25, column 4; p. 26, column 4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=1 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040502.2.2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=JAPANESE CAPTURE RUSSIAN INTRENCHMENTS AFTER DESPERATE FIGHTING ON YALU'S BANKS |volume=XCV |issue=154 |date=2 May 1904 |at=p. 1, columns 1–7; p. 2, columns 3–4 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=17 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
  • {{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040502.2.14&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=RUSSIANS ATTRIBUTE DEFEAT TO FOE'S SUPERIOR NUMBERS |volume=XCV |issue=154 |date=2 May 1904 |at=p. 2, columns 1–5 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=17 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
  • {{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040502.2.14.1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=St. Petersburg Staff Asserts Yalu Engagement Was Not Decisive. |volume=XCV |issue=154 |date=2 May 1904 |at=p. 2, columns 1–2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=17 March 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite journal |last=Garner |first=J. W. |title=Record of Political Events |journal=Political Science Quarterly |volume=19 |issue=4 |publisher=Academy of Political Science, Wiley |date=December 1904 |pages=717–748 |doi=10.2307/2140340 |jstor=2140340 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/2140340 |access-date=24 March 2022 }}Tyler, pp. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924074523642/page/176/mode/2up 177–196].
  • May 25–26 – Battle of NanshanTyler, pp. [https://archive.org/details/cu31924074523642/page/240/mode/2up 240–246].
  • June 14–15 – Battle of Te-li-Ssu{{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=LAH19040616.2.20&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=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 |volume=XXXI |issue=261 |date=16 June 1904 |at=p. 3, columns 1–7 |newspaper=Los Angeles Herald |access-date=25 December 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}
  • 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|date=May 2020}}

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){{cite news |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-ineko-sata-1181275.html |last=Kirkup |first=James |author-link=James Kirkup |title=Obituary: Ineko Sata |newspaper=The Independent |department=Culture |date=29 October 1998 |access-date=30 July 2022}}
  • July 18 – Fuji Yahiro, screenwriter (d. 1986){{cite web |url=https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%85%AB%E5%B0%8B%E4%B8%8D%E4%BA%8C-1116918 |title=八尋不二（読み）やひろ ふじ |trans-title=Fuji Yahiro |website=Kotobank |publisher=Digitalio, Inc. |language=ja |access-date=23 January 2023}}
  • 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){{cite book |title=Mirror: The Fiction and Essays of Kōda Aya |first=Ann |last=Sherif |publisher=University of Hawai'i Press |date=1999 |isbn=9780824821814}}
  • 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){{cite web |url=https://www.ndl.go.jp/portrait/e/datas/80.html?c=0 |title=Konoe, Atsumaro (1863–1904) |department=Portraits of Modern Japanese Historical Figures |publisher=National Diet Library, Japan |year=2013 |language=en |access-date=21 December 2021}}
  • January 9 – Ii Naonori, former daimyō, son of Ii Naosuke (b. 1848)
  • February 6 – Utagawa Yoshiiku, artist (b. 1833){{cite web |url=https://www.artelino.com/articles/yoshiiku-utagawa.asp |title=Yoshiiku Utagawa |website=artelino |access-date=27 December 2021}}
  • March 27 – Takeo Hirose, navy career officer (b. 1868){{cite news |url=https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SFC19040331.2.35&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1 |title=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. |volume=95 |issue=122 |date=31 March 1904 |at=p. 5, column 2 |newspaper=San Francisco Call |access-date=10 February 2022 |via=California Digital Newspaper Collection}}{{cite web |title=Hirose, Takeo |publisher=The Russo-Japanese War Research Society |year=2002 |website=russojapanesewar.com |url=http://www.russojapanesewar.com/hirose.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061031113825/http://www.russojapanesewar.com/hirose.html |archive-date=31 October 2006 |access-date=19 January 2022}}
  • August 12 – Kawamura Sumiyoshi, admiral (b. 1836)
  • August 31 – Tachibana Shūta, soldier (b. 1865)
  • September 26 – Koizumi Yakumo, writer (b. 1850)

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