# 1904 in Japan

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

## Incumbents

* Emperor: Emperor Meiji
* Prime Minister: Katsura Tarō

### 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.
* February 9 – Battle of Chemulpo Bay
* February 23 – Japan–Korea Treaty of 1904
* April 30–May 1 – Battle of Yalu River (1904)
* May 25–26 – Battle of Nanshan
* June 14–15 – Battle of Te-li-Ssu
* 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.

## 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)
* July 18 – Fuji Yahiro, screenwriter (d. 1986)
* 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)
* 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)
* January 9 – Ii Naonori, former daimyō, son of Ii Naosuke (b. 1848)
* February 6 – Utagawa Yoshiiku, artist (b. 1833)
* March 27 – Takeo Hirose, navy career officer (b. 1868)
* August 12 – Kawamura Sumiyoshi, admiral (b. 1836)
* August 31 – Tachibana Shūta, soldier (b. 1865)
* September 26 – Koizumi Yakumo, writer (b. 1850)