1919 in Japan

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See also:

Other events of 1919
List of years in Japan

Events in the year 1919 in Japan.

Incumbents

Events

1 March - March 1st Movement: one of the earliest public displays of Korean resistance during the occupation of the Korean Empire by Japan takes place when 33 activists convene at Taehwagwan Restaurant in Seoul and read the Korean Declaration of Independence drawn up by historian Choe Nam-seon.^[1]
date unknown - The Maeda Corporation is established.

Births

8 October - Kiichi Miyazawa, 78th Prime Minister of Japan (died 2007)^[2]
date unknown - Akeo Watanabe, orchestral conductor (died 1990)

Deaths

29 October - Soyen Shaku, Zen Buddhist master (born 1860)
3 November - Terauchi Masatake, politician (born 1852)^[3]

References

↑ Cumings, Bruce. Korea’s Place in the Sun: A Modern History. New York: W.N. Norton and Company, 1997.
↑ "Former Japan PM Kiichi Miyazawa dead". UPI (Tokyo). 28 June 2007. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
↑ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Terauchi Masatake" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 964, p. 964, at Google Books.

Years in Japan (1868–present)

Meiji period (1868–1912)

1868 1869 1870 1871 1872 1873 1874 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 1880 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 1911 1912

Taishō period (1912–1926)

1912 1913 1914 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926

Shōwa period (1926–1989)

1926 1927 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989

Heisei period (1989–present)

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