# 1909 in Japan

Events in the year 1909 in Japan. It corresponds to Meiji 42 (明治42年) in the Japanese calendar.

## Incumbents

* Emperor: Emperor Meiji
* Prime Minister: Katsura Tarō

### Governors

* Aichi Prefecture: Masaaki Nomura
* Akita Prefecture: Mori Masataka
* Aomori Prefecture: Takeda Chiyosaburo
* Ehime Prefecture: Kensuke Ando then Takio Izawa
* Fukui Prefecture: Nakamura Junkuro
* Fukushima Prefecture: Shotaro Nishizawa
* Gifu Prefecture: Sadakichi Usu
* Gunma Prefecture: Uruji Kamiyama
* Hiroshima Prefecture: Tadashi Munakata
* Ibaraki Prefecture: Keisuke Sakanaka
* Iwate Prefecture: Shinichi Kasai
* Kagawa Prefecture: Motohiro Onoda
* Kumamoto Prefecture: Kawaji Toshikyo
* Kochi Prefecture: Kenzo Ishihara
* Kyoto Prefecture: Kawaji Toshikyo
* Mie Prefecture: Yoshisuke Arita
* Miyagi Prefecture: Hiroyuki Terada
* Miyazaki Prefecture: Tadayoshi Naokichi
* Nagano Prefecture: Akira Oyama
* Nara Prefecture: Raizo Wakabayashi
* Niigata Prefecture: Prince Kiyoshi Honba
* Okinawa Prefecture: Shigeaki Hibi
* Osaka Prefecture: Tadashini Kikuchi
* Saga Prefecture: Nishimura Mutsu
* Saitama Prefecture: Shimada Gotaro
* Shiname Prefecture: Maruyama Shigetoshi
* Tochigi Prefecture: .....
* Tokyo: Hiroshi Abe
* Toyama Prefecture: Usami Katsuo
* Yamagata Prefecture: Mabuchi Eitaro

## Events

* April 29 – Fusako, Princess Kane, seventh daughter of Emperor Meiji, marries Prince Naruhisa Kitashirakawa.
* May 6 – Nobuko, Princess Fumi, eighth daughter of Emperor Meiji, marries Prince Yasuhiko Asaka
* September 4 – Japan and China sign the Jiandao/Gando Treaty, which gives Japan a way to receive railroad concessions in Manchuria.
* September 8 – A bottle glass, sheet glass and display product and sales brand, AGC was founded in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, as predecessor name was Asahi Glass.
* October Unknown date – Motorbike and compact car brand Suzuki founded, as predecessor name is Suzuki Weaving Machine Manufacturing.
* October 26 – Itō Hirobumi, four time Prime Minister of Japan (the 1st, 5th, 7th and 10th) and Resident-General of Korea, is assassinated by An Jung-geun at the Harbin Railway Station in Manchuria.

## Births

* January 6 – Haruko Sugimura, film actress (d. 1997)
* January 20 – Gōgen Yamaguchi, martial artist (d. 1989)
* March 4 – Prince Tsuneyoshi Takeda (d. 1992)
* March 6 – Shōhei Ōoka, writer (d. 1988)
* March 9 – Shizue Natsukawa, actress (d. 1999)
* March 27 – Eitaro Ozawa, actor (d. 1988)
* March 29 – Kiyoteru Hanada, literary critic and essayist (d. 1974)
* April 14 – Yoshikata Yoda, screenwriter (d. 1991)
* May 5 – Atsushi Nakajima, author (d. 1942)
* June 19
** Osamu Dazai, writer (d. 1948)
** Midori Naka, stage actress (d. 1945)
* August 11 – Yuji Koseki, composer (d. 1989)
* September 9 – Setsuko Matsudaira, wife of Prince Chichibu (d. 1995)
* November 7
** Ken Uehara, film actor (d. 1991)
** Sadao Yamanaka, film director and screenwriter (d. 1938)
* November 16 – Michio Mado, poet (d. 2014)
* November 29 – Kinuyo Tanaka, film actress (d. 1977)
* December 21 – Seichō Matsumoto, writer (d. 1992)

## Deaths

* May 10 – Futabatei Shimei, author, translator, and literary critic (b. 1864)
* July 19 – Arai Ikunosuke, samurai, navy minister of the Republic of Ezo (b. 1836)
* October 26 – Itō Hirobumi, statesman (b. 1841)
* November 14 – Yamakawa Futaba, educator (b. 1844)
* December 8 – Prince Kaya Kuninori (b. 1867)